2011 Frederick County Public Libraries & Frederick County Public Schools Suggested Reading for Grades 9 - 12

Fiction

• Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Hate List by Jennifer Brown
• Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
• LoveSick by Jake Coburn
• Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins (Kristina Snow series)
• Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
• I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
• Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
• Dramarama by E. Lockhart
• Flash Burnout: A Novel by L. K. Madigan
• Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
• Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena
• Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
• Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series)
• Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
• Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki
• The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
• Snitch by Allison Van Diepen
• Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Little Bee: a Novel by Chris Cleave
• Juliet Naked: a Novel by Nick Hornby

Fantasy

• Pretty Dead by Francesca Block
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
• The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Marked by P.C. Cast (House of Night Series)
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (series)
• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
• The Monstrumologist: William James Henry by Richard Yancey
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
• Peter & Max: A Fables Novel by Bill Willingham
• Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Science Fiction

• Candor by Pam Bachorz
•  Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Rash by Pete Hautman
• Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
• Wake by Lisa McMann (series)
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (Maximum Ride Series)
• Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Mystery 

• Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
• The Christopher Killer : A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson (Forensic Mystery series)
• Paper Towns by John Green
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
• Bonechiller by Graham McNamee
• Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
• The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones

Historical Fiction

• Laika by Nick Abadzis
• Chains: Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Tales of the Madman Underground: (an Historical Romance 1973) by John Barnes
• A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
• Lost by Jacqueline Davies
• Red Necklace: Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner
• The Luxe by Anna Godbersen (Luxe series)
• Pemba’s Song: A Ghost Story by Tonya Hegamin
• News From the Dead: Being a True Story of Anne Green by Mary Hooper
• Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
• Riot by Walter Dean Myers
• Puppet by Eva Wiseman
• Girl With a Pearl Earring: a Novel by Tracy Chevalier

Sports

• Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
• Knights of the Hill Country by Tim Tharp
• Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
• Blades of Glory by John Rosengren
• Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
• Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching by Jennifer Sey

Nonfiction

• No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
• The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
• Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li
• Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
• Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
• War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
• Mutiny: The True Events that Inspired the Hunt for Red October by David Hagberg
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Columbine by David Cullen
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Biography/Memoir

• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
• Charles and Emma: the Darwin’s Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto
• Means of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam by Philip Caputo
• When Pride Still Mattered: a Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
• The Impostor’s Daughter: a True Memoir by Laurie Sandell
• Epileptic by David B.
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Must Read Classics

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• 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
• Odyssey by Homer

Audio

• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Dramarama by E. Lockhart
• Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (Maximum Ride Series)
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
• The Dead and the Gone by Susan Pfeffer
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak