Multicultural:

•   Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian by Sheman Alexie
•   Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fatath
•   Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
•   Sold by Patricia McCormick
•   Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris

Biography:

•   War Child by Emmanuel Jai
•   Soloist by  Steve Lopez
•   This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
•   Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)

Historical:

•   Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
•   News From the Dead by Mary Hooper
•   Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
•   Red Necklace: Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner
•   Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
•   Laika by Nick Abadzis (graphic Novel)

Fantasy:

•   Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
•   Looking Glass War by Frank Beddor
•   Graceling by Kristin Cashore
•   Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
•   Nation by Terry Pratchet
•   Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

Science Fiction:

•   Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
•   Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
•   Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
•   Wake by Lisa McMann
•   Adoration Of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
•   Rash by Peter Hautman

Mystery:

•   The Christopher Killer and sequel by Alane Ferguson
•   Dead Connection by Charlie Price
•   Sophomore Undercover by Ben Esch
•   Paper Towns by John Green

Sports:

•   No Limits : The Will to Succeed by Michael Phelps 
•   Quiet Strength : a Memoir by Tony Dungy 
•   The 80-yard Run : a Twenty-Week, Coast-to-Coast Quest for the Heart of High School Football by Theron Hopkins
•   Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head My 25 Years in Baseball by Tim Kurkjian
•   Boots on the Ground by Dusk : My Tribute to Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman
•  Cover Up by John Fienstien
•   Football Hero by Tim Green
•   Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey
•   Blind Side by Michael Lewis

Realistic:

•   Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart  
•   Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson  
•   13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
•   King Dork by Frank Portman
•   Before I Die by Jenny Downham
•   Skate by Michael Harmon
•   Notes From the Midnight Drive by Jordan Sonnenblick
•   All We Know Of Heaven by Jacqueline Mitchard
•   Parrot Fish by Ellen Wittinger

Non-Fiction:

•   Warrior Girls by Michael Y. Sokolove  
•   A Billion Lives by Jan England
•   Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge
•   No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin

Classic:

•   Three Musketeers by  Alexandre Dumas  
•   Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  
•   Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
•   And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
•   Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
•   One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
•   Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle