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1 Books from A-Z Note: This is not an exhaustive list. It simply contains suggested titles for each letter of the alphabet. Titles followed by ** are for more mature readers and those followed by + feature African-American or multi-ethnic characters. A After Ever After (Jordan Sonnenblick) Airman (Eoin Colfer) Al Capone Does my Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (first in a series of 6) Amazing Grace (Megan Shull) The Apothecary (Maile Meloy) The Apprentices (Maile Meloy) Artichoke s Heart (Suzanne Supplee) Asylum** (Madeleine Roux) Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt) B The Black Book of Secrets (F.E. Higgins) Black Radishes (Susan Lynn Meyer) The Blackhope Enigma (Teresa Flavin) The Book Thief** (Markus Zusak) The Boy who Saved Baseball (John Ritter) The Brotherband Chronicles (John Flanagan) (series, a must read for fans of the Ranger s Apprentice!) Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson) + The Bully Book (Eric Kahn Gale) Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) C Camo Girl (Kekla Magoon) + Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliett) The City of Ember (Jean DuPrau) The Clockwork Three (Matthew Kirby) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (Holly Black) Counting by 7s (Holly Goldberg Sloan) Crow (Barbara Wright) + The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court (Mark Twain) D The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (E. Lockhart) Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra (Wendy Lichtman) Doll Bones (Holly Black) Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie (Jordan Sonnenblick) The Dragon s Tooth (N.D. Wilson) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Dracula (Bram Stoker)

2 E Eight Keys (Suzanne LaFleur) Elijah of Buxton (Christopher Paul Curtis) + Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine) The Enchantress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (final in a series of 6) Ender s Game** (Orson Scott Card) Esperanza Rising (Pam Muñoz Ryan) + F Favorite Greek Myths (Mary Pope Osborne) Fire in the Streets (Kekla Magoon) + For Laughing Out Loud (Jack Prelutsky) Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick) Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) G Gabriel s Journey: Racing to Freedom (Alison Hart) + The Geography of You and Me (Jennifer E. Smith) The Giver (Lois Lowry) Gregor the Overlander (Suzanne Collins) Guts (Gary Paulsen) The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Gulliver s Travels (Jonathan Swift) H Habibi (Naomi Shihab Nye) + Hatchet (Gary Paulsen) Heat (Mike Lupica) Homesick (Kate Klise) Hope was Here (Joan Bauer) The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer) How Lamar s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy (Crystal Allen) + How to Survive Middle School (Donna Gephart) The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) I I am Malala: How one Girl Stood up for Education and Changed the World (Malala Yousafzai)+ I am the Messenger (Markus Zusak) I Kill the Mockingbird (Paul Acampora) I Never Said I Wasn t Difficult (Sara Holbrook) If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period (Gennifer Choldenko) If I Stay** (Gayle Forman) If You re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand (Kalli Dakos) Inkheart (Cornelia Funke) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)

3 J Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Paterson) Jackbaby** (William Ritter) Jefferson s Sons: A Founding Father s Secret Children (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley) + Jepp, who Defied the Stars (Katherine Marsh) Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (Wendy Mass) Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) K Kensuke s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata)+ Knots in my Yo-Yo String (Jerry Spinelli) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) L Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (John Feinstein) The League (Thatcher Heldring) Loser (Jerry Spinelli) The Lost Songs (Caroline B. Cooney) + Love, Ruby Lavender (Deborah Wiles) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Lord of the Flies (William Golding) M The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (2 nd in a series of 6) Math Doesn t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail (Danica McKellar) M. C. Higgins, the Great (Virginia Hamilton) + Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf (Jennifer L. Holm.) Middle School: Get me Out of Here! (Chris Tebbetts and James Patterson) Moon Over Manifest (Clare Vanderpool) The Maze Runner (James Dashner)** The Moves Make the Man (Bruce Brooks) + The Music of the Dolphins (Karen Hesse) N The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (4 th in a series of 6) Never Trust a Dead Man (Vivian Vande Velde) Night Kites (M. E. Kerr) Ninth Ward (Jewell Parker Rhodes) No More Dead Dogs (Gordon Korman) O On the Run: Chasing the Falconers (Gordon Korman) One Crazy Summer (Rita Williams-Garcia) Out of My Mind (Sharon Draper) The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (E.L. Konigsburg) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

4 P P.S. Be Eleven (Rita Williams-Garcia) + Peak (Roland Smith) Peeled (Joan Bauer) Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe (Bette Green) Pictures of Hollis Woods (Patricia Reilly Giff) Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (Maya Van Wagenen) The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) Q QB1 (Mike Lupica) Song of the Quarkbeast (Jasper Fforde) R The Ranger s Apprentice (John Flanagan) (series of 12 books!) The Ravenmaster s Secret (Elvira Woodruff) Ready Player One** (Ernest Cline) Red Kayak (Priscilla Cummings) The Rock and the River (Kekla Magoon) + Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) S Sasquatch in the Paint (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) + The Schwa was Here (Neal Shusterman) Secrets of Shakespeare s Grave (Deron R. Hicks) See you at Harry s (Jo Knowles) Seedfolks (Paul Fleischman) + Silhouetted by the Blue (Traci L. Jones) + The Skin I m In (Sharon Flake) + A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (3 rd in a series of 6) Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (Lisa Yee) + Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli) Stealing the Game (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) + Sugar (Jewell Parker Rhodes) + The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss) T Tangerine (Edward Bloor) The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet (Erin Dionne) Things Not Seen (Andrew Clements) This is what Happy Looks Like (Jennifer E. Smith) Truce: the Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting (Kim Murphy) Turn Left at the Cow (Lisa Bullard) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) + The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)

5 U Uglies trilogy (Scott Westerfeld) Under the Blood Red Sun (Graham Salisbury) Ungifted (Gordon Korman) Unwind** (Neal Shusterman) Uprising (Margaret Peterson Haddix) V Vango: Between Sky and Earth (Timothée de Fombelle) The Vindico (Wesley King) Vladimir Tod Series: Eighth Grade Bites; Ninth Grade Slays; Tenth Grade Bleeds, etc. (Heather Brewer) Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens (Patricia Lauber) Vortex** (S.J. Kincaid) W Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech) The Warlock: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (Michael Scott) (5 th a series of 6) The Wednesday Wars (Gary D. Schmidt) When the Black Girl Sings (Bill Wright) + When you Reach Me (Rebecca Stead) Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley) The Wild Girls (Pat Murphy) Wonder (R.J. Palacio) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L Engle) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) X Looking for X (Deborah Ellis) The Extra** (Kathryn Lasky) The Exchange Student (Kate Gilmore) The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Rick Yancy) X: A Novel** (Illyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon) + Y You Don t Know Me (David Klass) Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior (Chris Bradford) Young, Black and Determined: A Biography (Patricia McKissack)+ Z The Eye of Zoltar (Jasper Fforde) The True Adventures of Nicolo Zen (Nicholas Christopher) Zero Tolerance (Claudia Mills) The Zoo at the Edge of the World (Eric Kahn Gale) When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Kimberly Willis Holt) Zoobreak (Gordon Korman)