High School Reading List
Dessen, Sarah. This Lullaby. (YA Fic)
345p.
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands,
eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term,
noncommittal relationships until she meets rock
musician Dexter.
Korman, Gordon. Son of the Mob. (YA Fic)
262p.
Vince has a complicated love life: his father is a
Mafia boss and his girlfriend's father is an FBI
mafia hunter.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Beast. (YA Fic) 260p.
An adaptation of Beauty and the Beast told from the
point of view of the beast.
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-time. (Adult Fic) 226p.
A mathematically gifted autistic boy decides to
investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
(Adult Fic) 232p.
Driving from to Kentucky to Tucson, Taylor stops in
a bar where she inherits a two-year-old Cherokee
girl.
Packer, Ann. The Dive from Clausens Pier.
(Adult Fic) 369p.
When her fiancé is paralyzed after a diving
accident, Callie must decide what to do about their
relationship.
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. (YA Fic)
220p.
Athletically gifted TJ shuns the organized sports at
his high school until he decides to form a swim team
of school outsiders.
Greenberg, Joanne. I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden. (YA Fic) 256p.
A schizophrenic teenage girl fights a three-year
battle against the mad alternative world she has
created.
Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last. (YA
Fic) 131p.
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when
he becomes a father in charge of his adored baby
daughter.
McCormick, Patricia. Cut. (YA Fic) 168p.
Thirteen-year-old Callie is confined to a mental
hospital for self-mutilation.
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. (YA Fic)
281p.
While on trial as an accomplice to murder,
sixteen-year-old Steve writes a film script about
his prison and courtroom experiences.
Nolan, Han. Born Blue. (YA Fic) 277p.
Unwanted foster child Janie has one dream to be a
famous blues singer.
Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun. (YA Fic)
146p.
A night of terror at a high school dance.
Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps: A Novel. (YA Fic)
312p.
Cal Thompson, a carrier of a parasite that causes
vampirism, must hunt down all the girlfriends he has
unknowingly infected before they can create more of
their kind.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a
Childhood. (Adult 305.40955 SA83P) 153p.
An outspoken Iranian girl resists the headscarf and
other restrictions forced upon her during the
Islamic revolution. Sequel: Persepolis 2: The Story
of a Return.
Barry, Lynda. One Hundred Demons. (Adult
741.5973 B279H) 216p.
Memories of growing up in the sixties from
boyfriends to the funny way other people's houses
smell.
Vaughan, Brian K. The Runaways. (YA
741.5973 R279H) unpaged.
When six L.A. teenagers discover that their parents
are murderous super villains threatening the world,
they run away from home in an effort to defeat them.
Gregory, Philippa. The Other Boleyn Girl.
(Adult Fic) 664p.
Anne and Mary Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry
VIII. Anne becomes his childless queen, while Mary
bears him an illegitimate son.
Hosseini, Kahled. The Kite Runner. (Adult
Fic) 324p.
A wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son are
friends from the final days of the monarchy to the
recent time of atrocities.
Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free. (YA
Fic) 167p.
Anita's Dominican family is terrorized by the secret
police during the 1960?s overthrow of the bloody
dictator Trujillo. Sequels: In the Time of the
Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Accents (Adult Fic).
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. (YA Fic)
552p.
A German girl steals books and tells stories to help
sustain the Jewish man her family is hiding during
the Holocaust.
Pullman, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke.
(YA Fic M) 230p.
Recent orphan Sally Lockhart becomes involved in
stolen rubies and opium as she searches for her
father's killer in nineteenth- century London.
Sequel: The Shadow in the North.
Werlin, Nancy. The Killer's Cousin. (YA
Fic) 129p.
After he is acquitted of killing his girlfriend,
David goes to live with strange relatives to finish
high school.
White, Robb. Deathwatch. (YA Fic) 228p.
Ben is guiding a bighorn sheep hunter into the
desert when he realizes that he has become the man's
real prey.
Anderson, M.T. Feed. (YA SF) 237p.
Titus and his friends are grateful for their feeds
advertising transmitters in their brains that tell
them what they want and where to get it until Violet
challenges them to think for themselves.
Anthony, Piers. The Magic of Xanth series.
(YA SF) 300+p.
In the humorous world of Xanth everyone has a
magical talent, from making spots appear on a wall
to controlling the weather. Those with Magician
caliber talent become King. The first three books
should be read in order (A Spell for Chameleon, The
Source of Magic, and Castle Roogna).
Beagle, Peter. The Last Unicorn. (YA SF)
212p.
A beautiful unicorn leaves the protection of the
enchanted forest, hoping to find others of her kind.
Black, Holly. Valiant: a Modern Tale of Faerie.
(YA SF) 314p.
When Valerie runs away to New York City she ends up
living under the subways in a dark-dealing world of
trolls, faeries, and homeless teens.
Brooks, Terry. Shannara series. (YA SF)
450-700p.
An adopted orphan named Shea reluctantly takes up
the quest for the Sword of Shannara, a legendary
blade that alone can defeat the forces of evil
engulfing the world.
Prequel: The First King of Shannara. Sequels: The
Heritage of Shannara series.
Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series. (YA
SF) 200-400p.
Discworld is a flat world supported by four
elephants standing atop an immense turtle swimming
endlessly through space. Hilarious and bizarre.
Pullman, Philip. His Dark Materials series.
(YA SF) 300-400p.
In book one, The Golden Compass, Lyra sets out with
her personal shape-shifting daemon (her soul in
animal form) to save dozens of kidnapped children
from sinister experiments in the Far North. Sequels:
The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
Wooding, Chris. Poison. (YA SF) 273p.
Poison travels through dark realms to rescue her
kidnapped infant sister from the Phaerie Lord.
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