2011 Collaborative Summer Reading List - Grades 9-12

Year:

2011

Grade Level:

Ninth through Twelfth Grade

PDF Downloads of List:

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Author:

M.T. Anderson

Call Number:

Y CD BOOK FIC AND

Wintergirls

Author:

Laurie Halse Anderson

Call Number:

Y CD BOOK FIC ANDE

Heist Society

Author:

Ally Carter

Call Number:

Y FIC CART

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Author:

John Green

Call Number:

Y CD BOOK FIC GREE

How to Ditch Your Fairy

Author:

Justine Larbalestier

Call Number:

Y CD BOOK FIC LARB

Angus, Thongs, & Full-frontal Snogging

Author:

Louise Rennison

Call Number:

Y CD BOOK FIC REN

Revolution

Author:

Jennifer Donnelly

Call Number:

E AUDIOBOOK

Bio/ Memoir

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Author:

Marjane Satrapi

Call Number:

955.054 SAT - GRAPHIC FORMAT

After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties

Author:

Catherine Gildiner

Call Number:

974.797 GILD

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Author:

Phillip Hoose

Call Number:

Y B COLVIN

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography

Author:

Sidney Jacobson

Call Number:

B FRANK- GRAPHIC FORMAT

War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Author:

Emmanuel Jal

Call Number:

B JAL

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Author:

William Kamkwamba

Call Number:

B KANKWAMBA

Stitches: a Memoir

Author:

David Small

Call Number:

B SMALL- GRAPHIC FORMAT

Books that inspired movies

Mockingjay

Author:

Suzanne Collins

Call Number:

Y FIC COLL

I Am Number Four

Author:

Pittacus Lore

Call Number:

Y FIC LORE

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Author:

Andy Seto

Call Number:

Y FIC SET - GRAPHIC FORMAT

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

Author:

John Boyne

Call Number:

FIC BOYN

My Sister’s Keeper: A Novel

Author:

Jodi Picoult

Call Number:

FIC PICO

Slumdog Millionaire: a Novel

Author:

Vikas Swarup

Call Number:

FIC SWAR

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Author:

Aron Ralston

Call Number:

796.522 RAL

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Author:

Ernesto Che Guevara

Call Number:

918.04 GUE

Fantasy

The Looking Glass Wars

Author:

Frank Beddor

Call Number:

Y FIC BED

Awakened

Author:

P.C. Cast

Call Number:

Y FIC CAST

The Scorch Trials

Author:

James Dashner

Call Number:

Y FIC DASH

Beastly

Author:

Alex Flinn

Call Number:

Y FIC FLIN

Guardian of the Dead

Author:

Karen Healey

Call Number:

Y FIC HEAL

Saga

Author:

Conor Kostick

Call Number:

Y FIC KOS

Rot & Ruin

Author:

Jonathan Maberry

Call Number:

Y FIC MABE

Radiant Shadows

Author:

Melissa Marr

Call Number:

Y FIC MARR

Birthmarked

Author:

Caragh M. O'Brien

Call Number:

Y FIC OBI

The Replacement

Author:

Brenna Yovanoff

Call Number:

Y FIC YOVA

Fiction

Only the Good Spy Young

Author:

Ally Carter

Call Number:

Y FIC CART

Stolen

Author:

Lucy Christopher

Call Number:

Y FIC CHRI

Along for the Ride

Author:

Sarah Dessen

Call Number:

Y FIC DESS

Looking for Alaska

Author:

John Green

Call Number:

Y FIC GRE

The Last Exit To Normal

Author:

Michael Harmon

Call Number:

Y FIC HARM

Flash Burnout : a Novel

Author:

L.K. Madigan

Call Number:

Y FIC MADI

Gamer Girl

Author:

Marianne Mancusi

Call Number:

Y FIC MANC

Kick

Author:

Walter Dean Myers

Call Number:

Y FIC MYER

Before I Fall

Author:

Lauren Oliver

Call Number:

Y FIC OLIV

Virals

Author:

Kathy Reichs

Call Number:

Y FIC REIC

The Things a Brother Knows

Author:

Dana Reinhardt

Call Number:

Y FIC REIN

Bruiser

Author:

Neal Shusterman

Call Number:

Y FIC SHUS

The Running Dream

Author:

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Y FIC VAND

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: a Novel

Author:

Aimee Bender

Call Number:

FIC BEND

The Queen of Palmyra

Author:

Minrose Gwin

Call Number:

FIC GWIN

Historical Fiction

What I Saw and How I Lied

Author:

Judy Blundell

Call Number:

Y FIC BLUN

The Healer’s Apprentice

Author:

Melanie Dickerson

Call Number:

Y FIC DICK

Once

Author:

Morris Gleitzman

Call Number:

Y FIC GLEI

Wicked Girls: a Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

Author:

Stephanie Hemphill

Call Number:

Y FIC HEMP

Prisoners in the Palace

Author:

Michaela MacColl

Call Number:

Y FIC MACC

Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood

Author:

Jame Richards

Call Number:

Y FIC RICH

Between Shades of Gray

Author:

Ruta Sepetys

Call Number:

Y FIC SEPE

Lighthearted Reads

Airhead

Author:

Meg Cabot

Call Number:

Y FIC CABO

Prada & Prejudice

Author:

Amanda Hubbard

Call Number:

Y FIC HUBB

I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your Class President

Author:

Josh Lieb

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Y FIC LIEB

Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots

Author:

Abby McDonald

Call Number:

Y FIC MCDO

Anna and the French Kiss

Author:

Stephanie Perkins

Call Number:

Y FIC PERK

MultiCultural

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Author:

Sherman Alexie

Call Number:

Y FIC ALEX

Midnight at the Dragon Café

Author:

Judy Fong Bates

Call Number:

Y FIC BAT

Streams of Babel

Author:

Carol Plum-Ucci

Call Number:

Y FIC PLUM

Nothing

Author:

Janne Teller

Call Number:

Y FIC TELL

American Born Chinese

Author:

Gene Luen Yang

Call Number:

Y FIC YANG-GRAPHIC FORMAT

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Author:

Dai Sijie

Call Number:

FIC DAI

Snow falling on Cedars: a Novel

Author:

David Guterson

Call Number:

FIC GUT

The Namesake

Author:

Jhumpa Lahiri

Call Number:

FIC LAHI

Mystery

Down the Rabbit Hole

Author:

Peter Abrahams

Call Number:

Y FIC ABRA

Reality Check

Author:

Peter Abrahams

Call Number:

Y FIC ABRA

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin

Author:

Josh Berk

Call Number:

Y FIC BERK

The Agency: the Body at the Tower

Author:

Rushang Lee

Call Number:

Y FIC LEE

Blood on My Hands

Author:

Todd Strasser

Call Number:

Y FIC STRA

Blink & Caution

Author:

Tim Wynne-Jones

Call Number:

Y FIC WYNN

Non-fiction

Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage

Author:

Janet Wyman Coleman

Call Number:

J 327.12 COL

Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps

Author:

Gail Jarrow

Call Number:

J 973.73 JARR

They called themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of an American Terrorist Group

Author:

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Call Number:

Y 322.42 BART

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie : a Doll's History and Her Impact On Us

Author:

Tanya Lee Stone

Call Number:

Y 688.7 STON

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Author:

Stephen D. Levitt

Call Number:

330 LEVI

Do One Green Thing: Saving the Earth Through Simple, Everyday Choices

Author:

Mindy Pennybacker

Call Number:

333.72 PENN

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Author:

Greg Mortenson

Call Number:

371.823 MORT

The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past

Author:

Gregory Benford

Call Number:

609 BENF

Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Author:

Mary Roach

Call Number:

611 ROA

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Author:

Richard Preston

Call Number:

614.5 PRE

Insights From Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us

Author:

Gilbert Waldbauer

Call Number:

632 WAL

A Child Called "It" : an Abused Child's Journey From Victim to Victor

Author:

David J. Pelzer

Call Number:

B PELZER

Science Fiction

Sabotaged

Author:

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Call Number:

J FIC HADD

Ship Breaker

Author:

Paolo Bacigualupi

Call Number:

Y FIC BACI

Pathfinder

Author:

Orson Scott Card

Call Number:

Y FIC CARD

The Tomorrow Code

Author:

Brian Falkner

Call Number:

Y FIC FALK

Black Hole Sun

Author:

David Macinnis Gill

Call Number:

Y FIC GILL

Fang

Author:

James Patterson

Call Number:

Y FIC PATT

Across the Universe

Author:

Beth Revis

Call Number:

Y FIC REVI

Unwind

Author:

Neal Shusterman

Call Number:

Y FIC SHUS

Steampunk

Clockwork Angel

Author:

Cassandra Clare

Call Number:

Y FIC CLAR

Airborn

Author:

Kenneth Oppel

Call Number:

Y FIC OPP

Leviathan

Author:

Scott Westerfeld

Call Number:

Y FIC WEST

Supernatural

The Summoning

Author:

Kelley Armstrong

Call Number:

Y FIC ARMS

The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June

Author:

Robin Benway

Call Number:

Y FIC BENW

Need

Author:

Carrie Jones

Call Number:

Y FIC JONE

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

Author:

A. S. King

Call Number:

Y FIC KING

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Author:

Lish McBride

Call Number:

Y FIC MCBR

Evermore

Author:

Noël, Alyson

Call Number:

Y FIC NOEL

Strange Angels

Author:

Lili St. Crow

Call Number:

Y FIC ST.

List created by:

Linda Frydl (FCPL)
Suzanne Herdman (FCPS)
Stephanie Long (FCPL)

2011 Collaborative Summer Reading List - Grades 9-12

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