12th Grade Reading List

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Bog Child
Artist/Author/Cast:
Dowd, Siobhan
Call Number:
HS F/F Dowd
Description:

In 1981, the height of Ireland's Troubles, eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.

Bone Gap
Artist/Author/Cast:
Ruby, Laura
Call Number:
HS F/F Ruby
Description:

Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.

Bunheads
Artist/Author/Cast:
Flack, Sophie
Call Number:
HS F Flack
Description:

Hannah Ward, nineteen, revels in the competition, intense rehearsals, and dazzling performances that come with being a member of Manhattan Ballet Company's corps de ballet, but after meeting handsome musician Jacob she begins to realize there could be more to her life.

Burn Baby Burn
Artist/Author/Cast:
Medina, Meg
Call Number:
HS F Medina
Description:

During the summer of 1977 when New York City is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam, seventeen-year-old Nora must also face her family's financial woes, her father's absence, and her brother's growing violence.

Challenger Deep
Artist/Author/Cast:
Shusterman, Neal
Call Number:
HS F Shusterman
Description:

A high school student uses his artistic talents to document his imaginary voyage to the world's most southern point while his friends observe his increasingly unbalanced behavior.

Code Name Verity
Artist/Author/Cast:
Wein, Elizabeth
Call Number:
HS F Wein
Description:

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France, and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, espionage, and great courage.

The Cruel Prince
Artist/Author/Cast:
Black, Holly
Call Number:
HS F Black
Description:

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

Dear Martin
Artist/Author/Cast:
Stone, Nic
Call Number:
YP F Stone
Description:

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

Defy the Stars
Artist/Author/Cast:
Gray, Claudia
Call Number:
YP F Gray
Description:

Teenaged soldier Noemi and robot Abel set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.

Dream Country
Artist/Author/Cast:
Gibney, Shannon
Call Number:
HS F Gibney
Description:

Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States

The Fault in Our Stars
Artist/Author/Cast:
Green, John
Call Number:
HS F Green
Description:

Hazel has accepted her diagnosis until she meets Augustus at a cancer support group, forcing her to reexamine her life.

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Artist/Author/Cast:
Zuckoff, Mitchell
Call Number:
HS 998.2 Z943f
Description:

Recounts the November 1942 crash of a U.S. cargo plane into the Greenland Ice Cap and the loss of two different rescue planes sent to find it.

The Glass Castle
Artist/Author/Cast:
Walls, Jeannette
Call Number:
362.82092 W2152g
Description:

The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing.

Going Solo
Artist/Author/Cast:
Dahl, Roald
Call Number:
92 Dahl
Description:

As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.

The Grapes of Wrath
Artist/Author/Cast:
Steinbeck, John; DeMott, Robert (Contribution by)
Call Number:
F Steinbeck
Description:

Steinbeck depicts the Depression-era Joads, an Oklahoman family forced to move to California following the Dust Bowl. (1962)

The Hazel Wood
Artist/Author/Cast:
Albert, Melissa
Call Number:
HS F Albert
Description:

When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark fairy tales becomes real, Alice must enter the world to rescue her mother.

A Heart in a Body in the World
Artist/Author/Cast:
Caletti, Deb
Call Number:
HS F Caletti
Description:

Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma.

Hey, Kiddo
Artist/Author/Cast:
Krosoczka, Jarrett
Call Number:
GN HS 362.2913092 K9367h
Description:

This graphic memoir discusses the author’s life growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two opinionated grandparents.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Artist/Author/Cast:
Lee Shetterly, Margot
Call Number:
HS 510.92 L4815h
Description:

This account covers the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program.

The House of One Thousand Eyes
Artist/Author/Cast:
Barker, Michelle
Call Number:
HS F Barker
Description:

In 1980s East Germany, Lena’s uncle disappears and all traces of his existence are erased by the secret service police.

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