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