GRADE 9

The Adventure Novels of Will Hobbs
After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / Michael Scott
The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave / Virginia Hamilton

Anyone But You / Lara M. Zeises

Ashes of Roses / Mary Jane Auch
B for Buster / Iain Lawrence

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong

Before I Die / Jenny Downham
Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Both Sides Now / Ruth Pennebaker
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

Censorship Issues
Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Downriver / Will Hobbs
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Forgotten Fire / Adam Bagsadarian
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry  Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Teachers Guide!
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Readers Guide!
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman  
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
Her Father’s Daughter / Mollie Poupeney
Heroes / Robert Cormier
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Jacqueline Woodson
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer / Irene Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong
Ironman / Chris Crutcher
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O'Dell

Jailbait / Leslea Newman
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
The Last Mission / Harry Mazer
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Lena / Jacqueline Woodson
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White

Messenger / Lois Lowry
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

My Friend the Enemy / J.B. Cheaney
Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

Nightjohn / Gary Paulsen
The Novels of Scott O'Dell
An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka
The Pigman / Paul Zindel
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney

Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

The Rifle / Gary Paulsen
River Thunder / Will Hobbs
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Sarny / Gary Paulsen

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Skellig / David Almond

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Soldier's Heart / Gary Paulsen
Spite Fences / Trudy Krisher
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman 
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan
Taming The Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tenderness / Robert Cormier
Tex / S.E. Hinton
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
Twelve Shots / Harry Mazer
Under the Blood Red Sun / Graham Salisbury

The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton
Zia / Scott O'Dell


GRADE 10

The Adventure Novels of Will Hobbs
After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / Michael Scott
The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman 
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave / Virginia Hamilton
Anyone But You / Lara M. Zeises

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong
Before I Die / Jenny Downham

Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Both Sides Now / Ruth Pennebaker
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

Censorship Issues
Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Downriver / Will Hobbs
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Forgotten Fire / Adam Bagsadarian
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry  Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Teachers Guide!
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Readers Guide!
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman  
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
Her Father’s Daughter / Mollie Poupeney
Heroes / Robert Cormier
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan

Jailbait / Leslea Newman
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
The Last Mission / Harry Mazer
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Lena / Jacqueline Woodson
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White

Messenger / Lois Lowry
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka
The Pigman / Paul Zindel
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney
Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

The Rifle / Gary Paulsen
River Thunder / Will Hobbs
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Sarny / Gary Paulsen

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Skellig / David Almond

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Soldier's Heart / Gary Paulsen
Spite Fences / Trudy Krisher
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman 
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan
Taming The Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tenderness / Robert Cormier
Tex / S.E. Hinton
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
Twelve Shots / Harry Mazer
Under the Blood Red Sun / Graham Salisbury
The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton


GRADE 11

After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst/ Michael Scott
The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman 
Anyone But You / Lara M. Zeises

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong
Before I Die / Jenny Downham

Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Both Sides Now / Ruth Pennebaker
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

Censorship Issues
Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Forgotten Fire / Adam Bagsadarian
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry  Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
Her Father’s Daughter / Mollie Poupeney
Heroes / Robert Cormier
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman

Jailbait / Leslea Newman

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman

Messenger / Lois Lowry
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney
Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Sarny / Gary Paulsen

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Skellig / David Almond

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman 
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan
Tenderness / Robert Cormier
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman


GRADE 12

After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / Michael Scott
The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman 
Anyone But You / Lara M. Zeises

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong
Before I Die / Jenny Downham

Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Both Sides Now / Ruth Pennebaker
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

Censorship Issues
Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Forgotten Fire / Adam Bagsadarian
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry  Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman  
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
Her Father’s Daughter / Mollie Poupeney
Heroes / Robert Cormier
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman

Jailbait / Leslea Newman

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White

Messenger / Lois Lowry
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney
Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Sarny / Gary Paulsen

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Skellig / David Almond

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman   
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan
Tenderness / Robert Cormier
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen

The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman