General Reading Recommendations

Hot Newer Sports Books

Hot Newer Girl Books

• Adams, D. – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and three sequels
  Adams, Richard - Watership Down
• Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
• Andronik – Quest for a King: Searching for the Real King Arthur (NF)
• Armstrong, Jennifer - Steal Away
• Avi - Devil’s Race, Windcatcher, & others
• Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
• Bearnstein, - The Seamstress
• Beatty, Patricia - Charley Skedaddle
• Turn Homeward, Hannalee
• Blos, - A Gathering of Days
• Blume, - Tiger Eyes
• Bradbury, - The Martian Chronicles
• Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
• Bruchac, Joseph - Children of the Longhouse
• Bunting, - Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island
• Callahan, - Adrift: Seventy- six DaysLost at Sea (NF)
• Card, Scott Orson - Ender’s Game
• Cather, Willa - My Antonia
• Cisneros, Sandra - The House on Mango Street
• Cohen, - Railway Ghosts & Other Highway Heroes
• Conly, - Crazy Lady
• Cooney, Caroline - The Face on the Milk Carton
• Cooper, - Over Sea, Under Stone,  Greenwich, 
                  The Dark is Rising
• The Gray King
• Crane, - The Red Badge of Courage
• Creech, Sharon - Walk Two Moons
• Croatcher, - Stotan
• Curtis, - Bud not Buddy
• Cushman, - The Midwife’s Apprentice
• Catherine Called Birdy
• Dahl, - BFG
• DeFelice, Cynthia – Weasel
• The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
• Dorris, Michael - Sees Behind Trees
• Doyle, - The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Dumas, Alexander - Count of Monte Cristo
• DuMaurier, - Rebecca
• Duncan, - Stranger With My Face
• Fleischman – Jim Ugly
• Jingo Django
• Bandit’s Moon
• Fox, - The Moonlight Man
• Fox, Paula - Western Wind
• The Slave Dancer
• Freedman, - Lincoln: A Photobiography (NF)
• Goodall, Jane - My Life with Chimpanzees
• Greene, Bette - Summer of My German Soldier
• Guccione, Leslie Davis - Nobody Listens to Me
• Gutman, - Homus & Me
• The Kid Who Ran for President
• Hahn, Mary Downing - Wait Till Helen Comes
• Hamilton, - Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (NF)
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
• Hayes, - Flyers
• Hemingway, - A Farewell to Arms
• Hesse, - Out of the Dust
• Hinton, S.E. - That Was Then, This Is Now
• Houston, - Farewell to Manzanar (NF)
• Kassem, Lou - Listen for Rachel
• Jacques, - The Redwall Series
• King-Smith, - The School Mouse
• Charlie Muffin’s Miracle Mouse
• Lasky, Kathryn - The Bone Wars
• Beyond the Divide
• Pagoant
• Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Levoy, - Alan and Naomi
• Lowry, - Find A Stranger, Say Goodbye
• Lowry, Lois - The Anastasia Series
• Number the Stars
• A Summer to Die
• McCaughrean, - The Pirate’s Son
• Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables
• Moore, Robin - Bread Sister of Sinking Creek
• Morey, - Gentle Ben
• Myers, - Fallen Angels
• Hoops
• Naylor, Phyllis - Shiloh
• Nixon, Joan Lowry - The Orphan Train Series:
• A Family Apart
• In the Face of Danger
• A Place to Belong
• A Dangerous Promise
• Keeping Secrets
• The Dark and Deadly Pool
• The House on Hackman’s Hill
• O’Dell, Scott - Black Pearl
• Sing Down the Moon
• Sarah Bishop
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Zia
• O’Grady, - Basher Five-Two
• Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Terabithia
• Paulsen, Gary - Woodsong
• Hatchet
• The Hay Meadow
• NightJohn
• Brian’s Return
• Brian’s Winter
• Schernoff Discoveries
• Soldiers Heart
• Peck, - A Long Way from Chicago
• Peterson, - Liars
• Philbrick, Rodman - Freak the Mighty
• Summer of the Monkeys
• Raskin, - The Westing Game
• Rinaldi, Ann - Wolf by the Ears
• Rostowski – After the Dancing Days
• Rowling, - Harry Potter Series
• Sacher, - Holes
• Silverstein, Shel - A Light in the Attic
• Sleator, William - Green Futures of Tycho
• Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Speare, Elizabeth - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Spinelli, - Maniac Magee
• Stevenson, Robert Louis - Kidnapped
• Taylor, Mildred - Let the Circle Be Unbroken
• The Well
• Mississippi Bride
• Taylor, Theodore – The Cay
• Timothy of the Cay
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit
• Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Tom Sawyer
• Villard, - Into Thin Air
• Voight, Cynthia - Dicey’s Song
• Homecoming
• Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
• Wallace, - Shots on Goal
• Wallace, Bill – Red Dog
• Petey
• Blackwater Swamp
• Warner, - Sort of Forever
• White, - Deathwatch
• Winthrop, - A Castle in the Attic
• Wojciechowska, - Shadow of the Bull
• Yolen, Jane - Devil’s Arithmetic
• Series Books
• Sports Reports – Sports Biographies
• Dear America Series

• Crackback - Football
• Hoop Girlz - Bledsloe  (basketball)
• Tears of A Tiger  - Draper (basketball)
• Danger Zone - Klass  (basketball)
• Over the Wall  -  Ritter (baseball)
  Choosing Up Sides 
• Double Dutch - Draper (jump rope)
• Babe & Me - Gutman (baseball)
  Jackie & Me
  Honus & Me
  Mickey & Me 
• The Million Dollar Kick  - Gutman  (soccer)
  The Million Dollar Shot  -  (basketball)
• Farm Team -  Weaver - (baseball)
• Losing is Not an Option - Wallace (track)
• Hoop Kings (poetry)

• Heartbeat - Creech

• Jump Ball - Glenn, Mel

• Bronx Masquerde - Grimes

• Out of the Dust - Hesse

• Wirness - Hesse

• Worlds Afire - Janeczko

• Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

• Soda Jerk - Rylant

• One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

• What My Mother Doesn't Know

• Stop Pretending - Sones

• Make Lemonade

• Street Love - Myers
• Becoming Joe Dimaggio
• Yellow Star  - Roy

• Spy Goddess - Spradlin
• A Heart Divided - Bennett
• Yellow Star - Roy
• The Night My Sister Went Missing
• Uglies - Westervelt
• Pretties - Westervelt
• Specials - Westervelt
• Olive's Ocean - Henkes
• Highest Power of Lucky
• All American Girl - Cabot
• What Every Girl Except Me Knows
• What My Mother Doesn't Know
• Flipped
• Absolutely Normal Chaos
• P.S. Longer Letter Later
• Carolina Autumn
• Daughters of the Moon (series)
• Stop Pretending
• Swallowing Stones
• Son of the Mob
• So Be It
• Tending to Grace
• Mary Bloody Mary
• Face on the Milk Carton
• The Skin I'm In *
• Hostage (Roberts)
• Haunted - Cabot
• One of Those Hideous Books...
• Comedy Girl
• Halfway to the Sky
• Drowning Anna
• Joyride
• The Night I disappeared

Hot Newer Guy Books  
These books have guys as the main character and often are adventurous.  Girls may enjoy these also!

• Crackback - Coy

• Code Orange - Cooney

• Maltese Falconer - Horowitz

• Stormbreaker - Horowitz

• Point Blanc - -Horowitz

• Skeleton Key - Horowitz

• Monster - Meyers

• Wild Man Island  - Hobbs

• Hole in My Life (Bio of Gantos)

• A Week in the Woods - Clements

• You Don't Know Me - Klass

• Son of the Mob - Klass

• The Maze - Hobbs

• Ghost Canoe - Hobbs

• Memory Boy - Weaver

• Charlie's Run - Hobbs

• My Life in Dog Years - Paulsen

• Life in the Fat Lane (This year's Newbery honor book!)

• After the Bomb

• The Pirate's Son

• Al Capone Does My Shirts

• Vote for Larry!

• Travel Team

• Dough Boy

Newer Historical Fiction

• Black Storm Comin

• King of Mulberry Street '

• A Great and Terrible Beauty

• Private Peaceful

• The Convicts

• Year of the Hangman

• Daughter of Venice - Napoli

• Mary Bloody Mary

• Beware Princess Elizabeth

• Crispin: The cross of lead

• Murder for Her Majesty

• The Land - Taylor

• Soldier Boy

• Stop That Train!

• Soldier X

• Soldier Boy

• Al Capone Does My Shirts

• Stop the Train
• A Single Shard
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HUMOR

• Dough Boy - Marino

• You Don't Know Me

• Harris and Me - Paulsen

• Saffy's Angel  - McKay

• The Earth My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

• Vote for Larry

• Confess-O-Rama

• No More Dead Dogs

• Son of the Mob

• The Wish

• The Chemo Kid

• Slot Machine

• How Angel Peterson Got His Name - Paulsen

• Flipped

• Never Trust a Dead Man

• Al Capone Does My Shirts*

Sad Books

• Six Months to Live

• So B. It

• The Angels Trilogy

• Someone Like You

• Say Goodnight Gracie - Deaver