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Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students The following is list of suggested for 9th-12th graders. This list was compiled by Children’s Outreach Librarian Samantha Tai at the Vineland Public Library. All titles are available at the Vineland Public Library. Please note that students are not required to read a title from this list. They may pick any title that is deemed grade appropriate. These books can be located in the young adult fiction section by the author’s last name unless otherwise noted. We’ve also included Lexile numbers for each title. If a Lexile number is not available for a specific title, it is listed as Lexile n/a. Please see a librarian for the location of the following books or for other suggestions. A list of recommended authors is also included and students may choose a book from this list as well. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Lexile 550 When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing 13 cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC) Grade Level: 9th grade and up My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel by Derf Backderf Lexile n/a In graphic novel format, the author offers an account of growing up in the same schools as Jeffrey Dahmer, who went on to become one of the most notorious serial killers and cannibals in United States history. (YA GN My) Grade Level: 11th – 12th grade Pure by Julianna Baggott Lexile n/a In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a 16-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm. (FIC Baggott) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Lexicon by Max Barry Lexile n/a Recruited into an exclusive government school where students are taught the science of coercion to support a secretive organization, orphaned street hustler Emily Ruff becomes the school's most talented prodigy before catastrophically falling in love. (FIC Barry) Grade Level: 11th – 12th grade Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Lexile 1000 Recounts how a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust, 16 years after the end of World War II. (YA 364.151 Bas) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway Lexile 760 While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, 16- year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts. Grade Level: 9th grade and up All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry Lexile 640 Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Chime by Franny Billingsley Lexile 600 In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, 17-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC Billingsley) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Taken by Edward Bloor Lexile 640 In 2036, kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when 13-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems. Grade Level: 9th grade and up What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell Lexile 620 In 1947, with her jovial stepfather, Joe, back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Lexile 690 When a plane crash strands 13 teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC Bray) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Diviners, The by Libba Bray Lexile 730 Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC Bray) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Going Bovine by Libba Bray Lexile 680 Cameron Smith, a disaffected 16-year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (a.k.a. “mad cow”) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death- obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC Bray) Grade Level: 9th grade and up Great and Terrible Beauty, A by Libba Bray Lexile 760 After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, 16-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. Continue this trilogy with Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing. (Also available on audio AUD CD YA FIC Bray) Grade Level: 9th grade and up World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks Lexile 960 An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. (FIC Brooks) Grade Level: 11th – 12th grade Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students Hate List by Jennifer Brown Lexile 760 Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo Lexile 810 A 15-year-old Australian girl gets her first job and first crush on her unattainable university-aged co-worker, as both search for meaning in their lives. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Abandon by Meg Cabot Lexile 770 A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned 17-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Airhead by Meg Cabot Lexile 800 Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels. If you like Airhead, read the other two books in the series, Being Nikki and Runaway. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot Lexile n/a After graduating from college, Lizzie Nichols sets off to England for the summer to visit her boyfriend Andrew, whom she hardly knows. When Lizzie realizes that Andrew isn’t the man she imagined, she sets off for France, where her best friend, Shari, is working at a chateau in wine country. On the way, she meets Luke, a French American, whose father owns the chateau and would be so easy to fall in love with if he wasn’t already taken. (FIC Cabot) Grade Level: 11th – 12th grade Shadowland (Book one of the Mediator series) by Meg Cabot Lexile n/a Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead, and she hopes her move to California will be a fresh start, but a hot ghost named Jesse haunts her bedroom and another ghost is bent on vengeance at school. (YAP) Grade Level: 9th – 10th grade Vineland Public Library Suggested Books for High School Students Underworld by Meg Cabot Lexile 850 John Hayden, a death deity, takes 17-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity. This is the sequel to Abandon. Grade Level: 9th grade and up Swim the Fly by Don Calame Lexile 620 Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's goal? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date.
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