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BOOK TITLE AUTHOR GRADE GENRE
Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene 6-9 historical fiction
America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories Mazer, Anne 6-12 short stories
American Dragons Yep, Laurence 10-12 short stories
Among the Hidden Haddix, Magaret Peterson 6-12 sci-fi
At Her Majesty's Request: an African Princess in Victorian England Myers, Walter Dean 6-12 nonfiction
Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood Red Shirt, Delphine 10-12 nonfiction
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth Weiss, M. and Helen 6-12 short stories
Bluest Eye, The Morrison, Toni 10-12 historical fiction
Breath, Eyes, Memory Danticat, Edwidge 10-12 contemporary fiction
Breathing Underwater Flinn, Alex 10-12 contemporary fiction
Bud, Not Buddy Curtis, Christopher Paul 6-9 historical fiction
Cage, The Sender, Ruth Minsky 6-12 nonfiction
Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman, Karen 6-9 historical fiction
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning Canfield, et al 6-12 nonfiction
Children of the River Crew, Linda 6-12 contemporary fiction
Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Yen, Adeline Mah 6-12 nonfiction
Coffee Will Make You Black Sinclair, April 10-12 contemporary fiction
Coming of Age in America: a Multicultural Anthology Frosch, Mary 10-12 short stories
Contender, The Lipsyte, Robert 6-12 contemporary fiction
Dancer: Everybody Has a Dream Hewett, Lorri 6-12 contemporary fiction
Dancing with an Alien Logue, Mary 6-12 sci-fi
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews Levine, Ellen 6-12 nonfiction
Dear One, The Woodson, Jacqueline 10-12 contemporary fiction
Devil's Arithmetic Yolen, Jane 6-9 historical fiction
Dicey's Song Voigt, Cynthia 6-9 contemporary fiction
Dogs Have the Strangest Friends and Other True Stories of Animal Feelings Masson, Jeffrey 6-9 nonfiction
Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott 6-12 sci-fi
Esperanza Rising Ryan, Pam Munoz 6-9 historical fiction
Failure is Impossible: The History of American Women's Rights Kendall, Martha E. 6-12 nonfiction
Farewell to Manzanar: a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment Houston, James 10-12 nonfiction
Fighting Ground, The Avi,  6-9 historical fiction
Friedrich Richter, Hans Peter 6-9 historical fiction
Gathering Blue Lowry, Lois 6-12 fantasy/science fiction
Giver, The Lowry, Lois 6-12 fantasy/science fiction
Gorilla My Love Bambara, Toni Cade 10-12 short stories
Growing Up Asian American Hong, Maria 6-12 short stories
Habibi Nye, Naomi Shihab 6-12 contemporary fiction
Hatchet Paulsen, Gary 6-9 contemporary fiction
Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature from the United States King, Laurie 10-12 short stories
Hellen Keller (In Their Own Words) Sullivan, George 6-9 nonfiction
Hero and the Crown McKinley, Robin 6-12 fantasy/science fiction
Hidden Roots Bruchac, Joseph 6-9 contemporary fiction
Hiding Place Ten Boom, Corrie 6-12 nonfiction
Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R. 6-12 fantasy/science fiction
Holes Sachar, Louis 6-9 contemporary fiction
Hope Was Here Bauer, Joan 6-12 contemporary fiction
House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra 6-12 contemporary fiction
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents Alvarez, Julia 10-12 contemporary fiction
Hush Woodson, Jacqueline 6-9 contemporary fiction
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs Janeczko, Paul and Nye, Naomi Shihab 6-12 poetry
I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers Moore, Lorrie 10-12 short stories
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya 10-12 nonfiction
I Was a Teenage Fairy Block, Francesca 10-12 contemporary fiction
I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists Duffy, Carol 6-12 poetry
Invisible Ladder: an Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers Rosenberg, Liz 10-12 poetry
Island of Hope: the Story of Ellis Island and the Journey to America Sandler, Martin 6-9 nonfiction
Julie of the Wolves George, Jean 6-9 contemporary fiction
King of Shadows Cooper, Susan 6-9 fantasy/science fiction
Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance Appelt, Kathi 6-12 short stories
Last Book in the Universe Philbrick, Rodman 6-12 sci-fi
Life Strategies for Teens McGraw, Jay 6-12 nonfiction
Lily's Crossing Reilly Giff, Patricia 6-9 historical fiction
Lost Garden Yep, Laurence 6-12 nonfiction
Lyddie Paterson, Katherine 6-9 historical fiction
Make Lemonade Wolff, Virginia E. 6-12 contemporary fiction
Maus II: a Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began Spielgelman, Art 6-12 fantasy/science fiction
Monster Myers, Walter Dean 10-12 contemporary fiction
Mother Night Vonnegut, Kurt 10-12 historical fiction
My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl Rinaldi, Ann 6-9 historical fiction
Naked Sedaris, David 10-12 nonfiction
Navajo Code Talkers Aaseng, Nathan 6-9 nonfiction
Neighborhood Odes Soto, Gary 6-12 poetry
Night Wiesel, Elie 10-12 nonfiction
Nightfather Friedman, Carl 6-12 historical fiction
Not Without Laughter Hughes, Langston 10-12 historical fiction
Nothing But the Truth: a Documentary Novel Avi,  6-12 contemporary fiction
Number the Stars Lowry, Lois 6-9 historical fiction
Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen 6-12 historical fiction
Outsiders, The Hinton, S.E. 6-9 contemporary fiction
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida Martinez, Victor 10-12 contemporary fiction
Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen 10-12 contemporary fiction
Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems about the Times We Feel Alone Gordon, Ruth 6-12 poetry
Pigman Zindel, Paul 10-12 contemporary fiction
Rats Saw God Thomas, Rob 10-12 contemporary fiction
Return, The Levitin, Sonia 6-9 historical fiction
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Pipher, Mary 10-12 nonfiction
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred 6-9 historical fiction
Seedfolks Fleischman, Paul 6-9 contemporary fiction
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Staples, Suzanne 6-12 contemporary fiction
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Brashares, Ann 6-12 contemporary fiction
Slam Myers, Walter Dean 6-12 contemporary fiction
Slave Day Thomas, Rob 10-12 contemporary fiction
Somewhere in the Darkness Myers, Walter Dean 6-12 contemporary fiction
Speak Anderson, Laurie 10-12 contemporary fiction
Stargirl Spinelli, Jerry 6-12 contemporary fiction
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher, Chris 10-12 contemporary fiction
Stitch in Time Rinaldi, Ann 6-12 historical fiction
Stotan! Crutcher, Chris 10-12 contemporary fiction
Summer Life, A Soto, Gary 6-12 nonfiction
Sunflower: On the Possibilities of Limits and Forgiveness Wiesenthal, Simon 6-12 nonfiction
The House of the Scorpion Farmer, Nancy 6-12 sci-fi
Things They Carried O'Brien, Tim 10-12 contemporary fiction
Trino's Choice Bertrand, Diane Gonzales 6-9 contemporary fiction
Unsettling America: an Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry Gillian, Maria and Jennifer 10-12 poetry
Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories Atkin, S. Beth 6-12 nonfiction
Wáchale!: Poetry and Prose about Growing up Latino in America Stavans, Ilan 6-9 poetry
Walk Two Moons Creech, Sharon 6-12 contemporary fiction
Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Curtis, Christopher Paul 6-9 contemporary fiction
Wave, The Strasser, Todd 6-12 nonfiction
We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust Boas, Jacob 6-12 nonfiction
Welcome to Your Life: Writings for the Heart of Young America Haynes, David and Landsmen, Julie 6-12 short stories
What My Mother Doesn't Know Sones, Sonya 6-9 poetry
When I Was Your Age: Original Stories about Growing Up, Vol. 2 Ehrlich, Amy 6-9 short stories
When She Was Good Mazer, Norma Fox 10-12 contemporary fiction
Witness Hesse, Karen 6-12 historical fiction
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Cisneros, Sandra 10-12 short stories
Year Down Yonder Peck, Richard 6-9 historical fiction
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