Popular+High+School+Books

Popular High School books & authors (2006-2009) (This particular list is neither exhaustive nor in any order, but can be used to think about a core collection for high school, particularly 9th & 10th grades.)

Vandal (Michael Simmons) Street Pharm (Van Diepen) Snitch (Van Diepen) Drama High series Roosevelt High series (Gloria Velasquez) Carter High series [published by Saddleback] Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Rachel Cohn) Marked series (P.C. Cast) Blue Bloods series (De la Cruz) When It Happens (Susane Colasante) Slam (Nick Hornby) Demonata series (Darren Shan) Carol Plum-Ucci titles Ernesto Quinonez titles Leaving Dirty Jersey Pete Hautman Forever My Lady (Jeff Rivera)

Walter Dean Myers (obviously) Killing Britney (Sean Olin) The Last Apprentice series (Delaney) Maximum Ride series (James Patterson) The Book is About…Sex Fragments (Johnston) Jude [which we have as Framed] A Fighter’s Heart (Sam Sheridan) The Five Ancestors series (Jeff Stone) Lucky (Alice Sebold) The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Rainbow Boys series (Alex Sanchez) Julie Anne Peters books

Poetry: Sonia Sones Gail Giles Willie Perdome Bum Rush the Page

Urban Legends Teenage Bluez Am I Blue? Grl2Grl First French Kiss