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Academic English Grades 9 and 10 Fiction Reading List – organized by genre

(updated Oct. 2019)

Note that most books are listed in more than one category and that some of these books are suggested for grade 10 and some fore grade 9 – see individual grade lists.

Historical Drama / Historical Adventure

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains.

Anderson, M. T. Feed or The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation.

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. The cure for death by lightning or A recipe for bees

Bell, William. Forbidden City.

Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with the pearl earring.

Crate, Joan. Black Apple.

Donnelly, Jennifer. A northern light

Dyer, Hadley. Johnny Kellock died today.

Foley, Jessie Ann. The Carnival at Bray.

Glatshteyn, Yankey. Emil and Karl.

Gold, Jennifer. Soldier Doll.

Hesse, Monica. Girl in the Blue Coat.

Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns.

Hutton, Keely. Soldier Boy.

Ibbitson, John. The landing.

Jocelyn, Marthe. How it happened in Peach Hill.

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Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation

Lake, Nick. In darkness

Lekich, John. The loser’s club.

Livingston, Lesley. Once Every Never

McCormick, Patricia. Never fall down.

McCullers, Carson, The heart is a lonely hunter.

McGinnis, Mindy. A madness so discreet.

Mckay, Sharon E. Esther.

Mosher, Richard. Zazoo.

Moran, Michelle. Cleopatra's daughter, Nefertiti, or The Heretic Queen.

Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye.

Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise at Fallujah.

Namioka, Lensey. Ties that bind, ties that break.

Pignat, Caroline. The Gospel Truth.

Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla

Rees, Celia. Pirates or Witch Child.

Sedgewick, Marcus. Revolver or The foreshadowing.

Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea.

Skrypuch, Marsha. Daughter of War.

Skrypuch, Marsha. Hope’s War.

Smith, Dodie. I capture the castle.

Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The eagle of the ninth chronicles.

Turnbull, Ann. No shame, no fear.

Wein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity or Rose under fire or Black Dove, White Raven or The Pearl Thief.

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Wynne-Jones, Tim. The emperor of anyplace.

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

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Wartime and/or Battles / Armed Conflict

Bell, William. Forbidden City.

Glatshteyn, Yankey. Emil and Karl.




Hutton, Keely. Soldier Boy

Marsden, John. Tomorrow, when the war began.

McCormick, Patricia. Never fall down or Purple Heart.


Rosoff, Meg. How I live now. Sedgwick, Marcus. The foreshadowing. Walters, Eric. Shattered.

Wein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity or Rose under fire or Black Dove, White Raven.


Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

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Mystery / Adventure / Suspense / Action

Aker, Don. Delusion Road.

Alpert, Mark. The Six.

Arnett, Mindee. Avalon.

Barclay, Linwood. Fear the worst. The Accident. Trust Your Eyes.

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker.

Betcherman, Michael. Face-off.

Bhathena, Tanaz. A Girl Like That.

Blundell, Judy. What I saw and how I lied.


Brouwer, Sidney. Dead Man’s Switch.

Chupeco, RIn. The Girl from the Well.

Cline, Ernest. Ready player one.

Cook, Eileen. With Malice.

Crewe, Megan. The way we fall.

Doctorow, Cory. Little brother or For the Win.

Donnelly, Jennifer. A northern light.

Ellis, Deborah. No safe place or True Blue.

Fitch, Sheree. Pluto’s Ghost.

Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book.

Grant, Vicki. Not suitable for family viewing or Quid pro quo.

Green, John. Looking for Alaska

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Hirsch, Jeff. The Eleventh Plague.

Johnston, E. K. The Story of Owen.

Kinsella, Warren. Recipe for Hate.

Klise, James. The art of secrets.

Lake, Nick. In darkness or There Will Be Lies.

Lockhart, E. We were liars.

Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven.

Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the rock.


McClintock, Norah. Dooley takes the fall, or Taken, or About that night.

McDonell, Regan. Black Chuck.

McGinnis, Mindy. A madness so discreet.

Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You.

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall or Delirium.

Pierce, Tamora. Terrier.


Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones or Almost moon.

Sedgwick, Marcus. Revolver or Midwinterblood or She is Not Invisible.

Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea.

Setterfield, Diane. The thirteenth tale.

Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The eagle of the ninth chronicles.

Treggiarai, Jo. Ashes, ashes.

Walters, Eric. End of Days, Just Deserts or Shaken.

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Werlin, Nancy. Impossible or Rules of Survival.

Weyn, Susanne. The bar code tattoo.

Williams, Tad. City of golden shadows.

Wynn-Jones, Tim. Blink & Caution or The emperor of anyplace.

Zusak, Markus. I am the Messenger.

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Science Fiction

Alpert, Mark. The Six.

Arnett, Mindee. Avalon.

Austen, Catherine. All good children.

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker or The Wind Up Girl

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game. Cline, Ernest. Ready player one.


Dalcher, Christinga. Vox.


Hutchinson, Shaun David. We are the ants.

Lee, Fonda. Exo.

London, Alex. Proxy.

Oppel, Kenneth. This Dark Endeavour or Airborn.

Rosoff, Meg. How I live now.

Sawyer, Robert J. Wake.


Weyn, Susanne. The bar code tattoo.

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Fantasy and/or Supernatural Elements

Adeyemi, Toni. Children of Blood and Bone.

Almond, David. Secret Heart.

Black, Holly. Valiant or Coldest girl in cold town.

Block, Francesca Lia. Love in the Time of Global Warming Card, Orson Scott. Pathfinder.

Cashore, Kristin. Graceling or Fire.

Chakraborty, S. A. The City of Brass.

Chima, Cinda Williams. The Demon King.

Chupeco, RIn. The Girl from the Well.

Coakley, Lena. Witchlanders.

deLint, Charles. The blue girl.

Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book.

Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina.

Johansen, Erika. The Queen of the Tearling.

Johansen, K.V. Nightwalker: The warlocks of Talverdin.

Johnston, E. K. The Story of Owen or A Thousand Nights or That Inevitable Victorian Thing

Kulper, Kendall. Salt & Storm

Lanagan, Margo. Tender Morsels.

Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death.

Lo, Melinda. Ash.

Mac, Carrie. The Droughtlanders.

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Marchetta, Melina. Finnikin of the Rock.

Morgenstern, Erin. The Night Circus.

Ness, Patrick. The Rest of Us Just Live Here.

Novik, Naomi. Uprooted.

Oliver, Lauren. Delirium.


Pratchett, Terry. Nation.

Rees, Celia. Witch Child.

Rosoff, Meg. How I live now.

Sedgewick, Marcus. Midwinterblood or The foreshadowing

Stiefvater, Maggie. The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys, or Shiver

Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes.

Taylor, Laini. Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

Walton, Leslye. The strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender. Werlin, Nancy. Impossible.

Westerfeld, Scott. Afterworlds.

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Realistic Characters/Setting: Focus on relationships, family, school life, etc.

Aker, Don. The space between or The first stone or The fifth rule or Delusion Road.

Albertalli, Becky. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.

Alexie, Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian.

Ali, S. K. Saints and Misfits.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. The Impossible Knife of Memory.

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. The cure for death by lightning

Barclay, Linwood. Fear the worst.

Bell, William. Forbidden city.

Benway, Robin. Far from the tree.

Bhathena, Tanaz. A Girl Like That

Bone, Ian. The song of an innocent bystander.

Brenne, Beverly. Wild orchid.

Brooks, Martha. Two moons in august.

Brown Jennifer. Hate List or Thousand words.

Burtinshaw, Julie. The perfect cut.

Bustin, Pam. Mostly happy.

Calame, Don. Swim the fly (and other books by him)

Caletti, Deb. The queen of everything.

Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower.

Choyce, Lesley. The end of the world as we know it or Shoulder the sky

Cowan, Leslie Ann. As she grows or Something wicked.

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Crate, Joan. Black Apple.

Crow, Matthew. The Brilliant Light of Amber Sunrise

Danforth, Emily, M. The miseducation of Cameron Post.

Dessen, Sarah. The truth about forever (and other books by her).

DeVries, Maggie. Rabbit Ears.

Doctorow, Cory. Little brother.

Donnelly, Jennifer. A northern light or Revolution.

Efaw, Amy. After.

Elkeles, Simone. Leaving Paradise.

Ellis, Deborah. True Blue.

Erskine, Kathryn. Mockingbird.

Fitch, Sheree. The gravesavers or Pluto’s Ghost.

Flinn, Alex. Breathing underwater.

Francis, Brian. Fruit.

Ghent, Natalie. Gravity brings me down.

Girard, M. E. Girl Mans Up.




Griffin, Adele. The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone.

Groth, Darren. Are you seeing me?

Haddon, Mark. Curious incident of the dog in the night time.

Handler, Daniel. Why we broke up.

Harvey, Sarah. The lit report or Death benefits.

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Haworth-Attard, Barbara. Theories of relativity.

Holubitsky, Katherine. Tweaked or Alone at 90 foot.

Horvath, Polly. The corps of the bare-boned plane


Hubbard, Jenny. And we stay.


Hutton, Keely. Soldier Boy


Irani, Anosh. The song of Kahunsha.

Johnston, E. K. Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

Juby, Susan. Getting the girl.

Juby, Susan. Another kind of cowboy.

Katcher, Brian. The Improbably Theory of Ana & Zak.

Kelly, J. M. Speed of Life.

King. A.S. Please Ignore Vera Dietz or Still life with tornado.


Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven

Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation.

Lake, Nick. There will be lies.

Laurence, Margaret. A bird in the house or The stone angel.

Lawrence, Lisa. Rodent.

Lekich, John. The loser’s club.

Levithan, David. Will Grayson Will Grayson

Lewis, Wendy A. Freefall.

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Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks.

Kuipers, Alice. The worst thing she ever did.

Mac, Carrie. The beckoners or The opposite of tidy.

Mathieu, Jennifer. The truth about Alice.

Matson, Morgan. Since you’ve been gone.


McDonald, Abby. Getting over Garrett Delaney.

McGarry, Katie. Dare to You.

McGovern, Cammie. Say What You Will.

Myracle, Lauren. Shine

Nelson, Jandy. I’ll Give You the Sun.


Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You.

Niven, Jennifer. All the Bright Places

Pearson, Kit. The daring game.

Phillips, Wendy. Fishtailing.


Oppel, Kenneth. Half Brother.

Palacio, R. J. Wonder.

Parsons, Mark Huntley. Road Rash.

Quick, Matthew. Forgive me, Leonard Peacock.

Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla.

Reed, Amy. Crazy

Reed, Trent. If You’re Reading This.

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Reid, Donalda. The way it is.

Reynolds, Jason. The boy in the black suit.

Reynolds, Jason and Brendan Kiely. All American Boys.

Ryan, Tom. Way to go.


Saenz, Benjamin. Last night I sang to the monster.

Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones or Almost moon.

Smith, Heather. The Agony of Bun O’Keefe.

Sobat, Gail Sidonie. Gravity journal or Chance to Dance for You.

Shusterman, Neal. Challenger Deep

Silvera, Adam. More Happy than Not or They both die at the end

Skrypuch, Marsha. Hope’s War or The Hunger.

Smith, Hilary, T. A Sense of the Infinite Standiford, Natalie. How to say goodbye in robot.

Stevenson, Robin. A thousand shades of blue.

Stinson, Kathy. Becoming Ruby.

Summers, Courtney. Cracked up to be or Some girls are or All the Rage.

Taylor, Drew Hayden. Motorcycles and sweet grass.


Vlahos, Len. The Scar Boys

Walters, Eric and Teresa Toten. The taming.

Warga, Jasmine. My heart and other black holes.

Whaley, John. Where things come back.

Werlin, Nancy. Impossible.

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Werlin, Nancy. The rules of survival.

Wynn-Jones, Tim. Blink & Caution.

Ye, Ting-Xing. Throwaway daughter or mountain girl, river girl.

Younge-Ullman, Danielle. Everything Beautiful is not Ruined

Zarr, Sara. How to save a life or Once was lost or Story of a girl.

Zhang, Amy. Falling into place.

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu. American Street.

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Humour


Alexie, Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian or Flight.


Bray, Libba. Going bovine

Calame, Don. Swim the fly or Beat the Band or Call the Shots or Dan. vs. Nature



Katcher, Brian. The Improbably Theory of Ana & Zak.

Lockhart, E. Fly on the Wall: How one girl saw everything.


Menon, Sandhya. When Dimple met Rishi.


Whaley, John Corey. Noggin.

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Novel Written in Verse Form

Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover or Booked.

Phillips, Wendy. Fishtailing.


Ostlere, Cathy. Karma.

Reynolds, Jason. Long Way Down.

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Multi-Cultural/ Travel Elements/ Foreign Setting


Ali, S. K. Saints and Misfits.

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker or The Wind Up Girl


Bhathena, Tanaz. A Girl Like That.


Buck, Pearl S. The good earth.

Chupeco, RIn. The Girl from the Well. (based on a Japanese horror legend)

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win.

Donnelly, Jennifer. Revolution.

Ellis, Deborah. No safe place.

Goodman, Alison. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn.


Groth, Darren. Are you seeing me?



Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Sister wife.

Hutton, Keely. Soldier Boy.


Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven

Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation.

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Lake, Nick. In darkness.


Marchetta, Melina. On the Jellicoe road.


McDonell, Regan. Black Chuck



Ng, Celeste. Everything I never told you.

Ostlere, Cathy. Karma.


Quintero, Isabel. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces.


Setterfield, Diane. The thirteenth tale.

Skrypuch, Marsha. Daughter of War.

Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie Project.

Stiefvater, Maggie. The Scorpio Races

Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The eagle of the ninth chronicles. (3 books in one volume).






Zoboi, Ibi Aanu. American Street.

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Edgy/Urban/Modern Teen Life Issues


Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak or Wintergirls

Asher, Jay. The Future of Us. Austen, Catherine. All good children. Bhathena, Tanaz. A Girl Like That. Black, Holly. Valiant.

Boll, Rosemarie. The second trial.


Brown, Jennifer. Hate List or Thousand words.

Burtinshaw, Julie. The perfect cut.


Chalifour, Francis. After.

Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower.

Cowan, Jennifer. Earthgirl.



deLint, Charles. The blue girl.

DeVries, Maggie. Rabbit Ears.

Doctorow, Cory. Little brother or For the Win.

Efaw, Amy. After.

Ellis, Deborah. True Blue.

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Francis, Brian. Fruit.

Garland, Alex. The beach.

Girard, M. E. Girl Mans Up.

Goobie, Beth. The Pain Eater.

Green, John. Looking for Alaska (or any other book by him).

Haworth-Attard, Barbara. Theories of relativity.

Harvey, Sarah. The lit report.

Holubitsky, Katherine. Tweaked or Alone at 90 foot.



Jackson, Tiffany. Allegedly.

Johnston, E. K. Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

Juby, Susan. Another kind of cowboy.

King, A.S. Still life with tornado.


Kuipers, Alice. The worst thing she ever did.

Lanagan, Margo. Tender Morsels.


Levithan, David. Every day or Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks or Fly on the Wall: How one girl saw everything or We were liars.

Mac, Carrie. The opposite of tidy.

Marchetta, Melina. Saving Francesca.

Mathieu, Jennifer. The truth about Alice.

McClintock, Norah. Dooley takes the fall.

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McDonell, Regan. Black Chuck.

McGarry, Katie. Dare to You.

Myers, Walter Dean. All the Right Stuff or Lockdown

Nelson, Jandy. I’ll Give You the Sun.

Niven, Jennifer. All the Bright Places

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall.

O’Neill, Louise. Asking for it.

Plum-Ucci, Carol. What happened to Lani Garver.

Quick, Matthew. Forgive me, Leonard Peacock.



Reed, Amy. Crazy


Saenz, Benjamin. Last night I sang to the monster.


Skrypuch, Marsha. The Hunger.


Sobat, Gail Sidonie. Gravity journal or Chance to Dance for You.

Summers, Courtney. Cracked up to be or Some girls are or All the Rage.

Thomas, Angie. The hate u give.

Tokio, Marnelle. More than you can chew.

Vizzini, Ned. It’s Kind of a Funny Story.

Vlahos, Len. The Scar Boys

Werlin, Nancy. Impossible or Rules of Survivial.

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Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Make lemonade.

Wynn-Jones, Tim. Blink & Caution.

Zhang, Amy. Falling into place.

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Girl Power: Strong Female Protagonists

Adeyemi, Toni. Children of Blood and Bone.

Ali, S. K. Saints and Misfits

Anderson-Dargatz, Gail. The cure for death by lightning


Cashore, Kristin. Graceling or Fire.

Cowan, Jennifer. Earthgirl.

Black, Holly. Valiant.


Brenne, Beverly. Wild orchid.

Brooks, Martha. Two moons in august.





Dessen, Sarah. The truth about forever (and other books by her).

Donnelly, Jennifer. A northern light or Revolution.

Dyer, Hadley. Johnny Kellock died today.

Ellis, Deborah. No safe place or True Blue.

Friesen, Gayle. The Isabel Factor

Ghent, Natalie. Gravity brings me down.

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Goodman, Alison. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn.

Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina.

Harvey, Sarah. The lit report.

Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns


Jocelyn, Marthe. How it happened in Peach Hill.

Johnston, E. K. Exit, Pursued by a Bear or That Inevitable Victorian Thing

Kelly, J. M. Speed of Life.


Lewis, Wendy A. Freefall.

Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks or Fly on the Wall: How one girl saw everything.

Lo, Melinda. Ash.

Mac, Carrie. The opposite of tidy.

Marchetta, Melina. On the Jellicoe road.

Marchetta, Melina. Saving Francesca.

Matson, Morgan. Since you’ve been gone.


Mckay, Sharon E. Esther.

McClintock, Norah. Taken.

Mosher, Richard. Zazoo.

Morrissey, Donna. Kit’s law.


Namioka, Lensey. Ties that bind, ties that break.

Novik, Naomi. Uprooted.

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Pearson, Kit. The daring game.





Sheppard, Mary C. One for Sorrow.

Skrypuch, Marsha. Hope’s War.


Smith, Hilary, T. A Sense of the Infinite

Stiefvater, Maggie. The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys, or Shiver

Summers, Courtney. Cracked up to be or Some girls are.

Taylor, Laini. Daughter of Smoke and Bone.


Wein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity.

Weiner, Jennifer. Best friends forever.

Werlin, Nancy. Impossible, Rules of Survival.

Westerfeld, Scott. Afterworlds.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Make lemonade.



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Boy Power: Strong Male Protagonists




Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover.


Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker

Bell, William. The blue helmet or Only in the movies or Forbidden City.


Bray, Libba. Going bovine.

Boll, Rosemarie. The second trial.

Calame, Don. Swim the fly or Beat the Band or Call the Shots or Dan. vs. Nature

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game or Pathfinder.

Cline, Ernest. Ready player one.

Choyce, Lesley. The end of the world as we know it or Shoulder the sky

Courtenay, Bryce. The power of one.

Doctorow, Cory. Little brother.

Flinn, Alex. Breathing underwater.

Friesen, Gayle. Men of stone.


Harvey, Sarah. Death benefits.


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Levithan, David. Will Grayson

London, Alex. Proxy.

McClintock, Norah. Dooley takes the fall.


Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise at Fallujah or We Were Heroes or All the Right Stuff or Lockdown


Oppel, Kenneth. Half Brother.

Parsons, Mark Huntley. Road Rash.

Quick, Matthew. Forgive me, Leonard Peacock

Palacio, R. J. Wonder.


Reed, Trent. If You’re Reading This.

Reinhardt, Dana. The things a brother knows.

Reynolds, Jason. The boy in the black suit.

Reynolds, Jason and Brendan Kiely. All American Boys.



Sutcliffe, Rosemary. The eagle of the ninth chronicles. (3 books in one volume).

Zusak, Mark. The Messanger.

Whaley, John Corey. Noggin.


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