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Youth Services Summer 2025 Reading Lists: 9th Grade-12th Grade

9th-12th Grade Reading Lists

Realistic Fiction
Link to Break to You by Neal Shusterman in the catalog
Link to Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio in the catalog.
Link to My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen in the catalog.
Cover of No Rules Tonight, a graphic novel by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
Link to Rhino's Run by Robert Lipsyte in the catalog.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Link to Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin in the catalog.
Link to Maelstrom: A Prince of Evil by Lorian Merriman in the catalog.
Link to The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko in the catalog
Link to Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins in the catalog
Link to Thunder City by Philip Reeve in the catalog
Horror and Supernatural
Link to The House Where Death Lives edited by Alex Brown in the catalog
Link to Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin in the catalog.
Link to Pick the Lock by A.S. King in the catalog.
Link to Ruin Road by Lamar Giles in the catalog.
Link to The Underwood Tapes by Amanda DeWitt in the catalog.
Mystery and Thriller
Link to Dead below Deck by Jan Gansei in the catalog
Link to It's Only a Game by Kelsea Yu in the catalog.
Link to Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell in the catalog.
Link to The Meadowbrook Murders by Jessica Goodman in the catalog.
Link to No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally in the catalog
Nonfiction
Link to Halfway There by Christine Mari in the catalog
Link to Represent: the Unfinished Fight for the Right to Vote by Michael Eric Dyson in the catalog
Link to Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming in the catalog.
Link to American Spirits by Barb Rosenstock in the catalog.
Link to Escape from St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up by Lewis Hancox in the catalog.
2026 Nutmeg Book Award High School Nominees
Link to The 9:09 Project by Mark H. Parsons in the catalog.
Link to For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Link to Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow in the catalog
Link to The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe in the catalog.
Link to The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes in the catalog.
Link to Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang in the catalog.
Link to The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho in the catalog.
Link to Spin by Rebecca Caprara in the catalog.
Link to The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White in the catalog.
Link to Throwback by Maureen Goo in the catalog.