12th Grade Reading List
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
Although there is no escape from Incarceron, a futuristic, intelligent prison, two inmates are determined to try.
Chris McCandless abandons everything to experience life in the Alaskan wilderness.
Details the author's personal experience, challenges, and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate to find justice for America's most marginalized people.
Maya is caught between her India-born parents and her dreams when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
On the eve of her marriage, Lady Jane Grey is swept up in a conspiracy to usurp the throne.
In a society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature appears seeking a real-life monster.
In a world where dragons and humans coexist, Seraphina grapples with her identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals.
The son of a Pentecostal preacher tries to make it through his senior year of high school in rural Tennessee.
This memoir in verse shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her early childhood, and her experiences in publishing.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius--his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries.
In the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped of its name.
Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others.
After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
