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Youth Services Summer 2022 Reading Lists: 9th Grade-12th Grade

9th-12th Summer Reading Lists

Realistic Fiction
Link to All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir in the catalog
Link to And They Lived by Steven Salvatore in the catalog
Link to Even When your Voice Shakes by Ruby Yayra Goka in the catalog
Link to High Spirits by Camille Gomera-Tavarez in the catalog
Link to I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys in the Catalog
Link to Jumper by Melanie Crowder in the catalog
Link to Kiss and Tell by Adib Khorram in the catalog
Link to The Noh Family by Grace K Shim in the catalog
Link to Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp in the catalog
Link to This Place is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian in the catalog
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Link to The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux in the catalog
Link to From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos in the catalog
Link to Future History 2050 by Thomas Harding in the catalog
Link to Mister Miracle: the Great Escape by Varian Johnson in the catalog
Link to Nightmare in Savannah by Lela Gwenn in the catalog
Link to Okoye to the People by Ibi Zoboi in the catalog
Link to Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson in the catalog
Link to This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi in the catalog
Link to A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee in the catalog
Link to The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia in the catalog
Mystery
Link to Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide in the catalog
Link to Anatomy: a Love Story by Dana Schwartz in the catalog
Link to Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow in the catalog
Link to Fly by Night by Tara O'Connor in the catalog
Link to Killing Time by Brenna Ehrlich in the catalog
Link to Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf in the catalog
Link to Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie Richards in the catalog
Link to This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg in the catalog
Link to Very Bad People by Kit Frick in the catalog
Link to You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen McManus in the catalog
Nonfiction
Link to Alias Anna by Susan Hood in the catalog
Link to Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On in the World Today by Olivia Seltzer in the catalog
Link to Messy Roots: A graphic memoir of a wuhanese american by Laura Gao in the catalog
Link to Rise Up! how you can join the fight against white supremacy by Crystal Marie Fleming in the catalog
Link to Science and the Skeptic by Marc Zimmer in the catalog
2023 Nutmeg Book Award High School Nominees
Link to All Eyes On Her by L.E. Flynn in the catalog
Link to The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan in the catalog
Link to Flamer by Mike Curato in the catalog
Link to Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez in the catalog
Link to The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune in the catalog
Link to The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes in the catalog
Link to More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood in the catalog
Link to Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yuself Salmaam in the catalog
Link to We Are Not Free by Traci Chee in the catalog
Link to What I Carry by Jennifer Longo in the catalog