RHS Library Summer 2022 Reading Suggestions
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RHS Library Summer 2022 Reading Suggestions
Below is a list of favorites. There is an assortment of fiction and nonfiction, classic and modern titles for
high school students. Enjoy!
- Mrs. Parente
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Divergent by Veronica Roth
Carol Oates In a future Chicago, sixteen-
When sixteen-year-old Matt is year-old Beatrice Prior must
falsely accused of threatening to choose among five
blow up his high school and his predetermined factions to
friends turn against him, an define her identity for the
unlikely classmate comes to his rest of her life, a decision
aid. (Realistic Fiction) made more difficult when
she discovers that she is an
anomaly who does not fit
into any one group, and that
the society she lives in is not
perfect after all. (Science Fiction)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Eleanor & Park by Rainbow
Adyemi Rowell
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older Set over the course of one
brother Tzain, and rogue princess school year in 1986, this is the
Amari fight to restore magic to the story of two star-crossed
land and activate a new generation of misfits--smart enough to know
magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued that first love almost never
by the crown prince, who believes the lasts, but brave and desperate
return of magic will mean the end of enough to try. (Realistic
the monarchy. (Fantasy) Fiction)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Fallen Angels by Walter Dean
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his Myers
brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry,
ghosts who knew Shawn board the just out of his Harlem high
elevator and reveal truths Will needs to school, enlists in the Army in the
know. (Novel in Verse) summer of 1967 and spends a
devastating year on active duty in
Vietnam. (Historical Fiction)
Ender’s Game by Orsen Scott Card The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Ender, who is the result of genetic Documents the true story of two
experimentation, may be the military Oakland high school students, a
genius Earth needs in its war against white girl from a privileged private
an alien enemy. (Classic Science ) school and a black youth from a
school overshadowed by crime,
whose fateful interaction triggered
devastating consequences for both,
garnering national attention and
raising awareness about hate. (Nonfiction)
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
In 1898 during the Boxer Rebellion a The personal, often painful,
boy named Little Bao recruits an army histories of four Chinese
of Boxers to rid China of foreign American women who began
missionaries and soldiers who bully and meeting in San Francisco in
rob Chinese peasants. (Graphic Novel) 1949 to play mah jong are
revealed as the daughter of one
who has died searches for her
sisters in China to tell them
about the mother they never
knew. (Historical Fiction)
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is One of Us is Lying by Karen
an angry loner with a brother in M. McManus
prison, but when he meets Dante When the creator of a high
and they become friends, Ari school gossip app
starts to ask questions about mysteriously dies in front of
himself, his parents and his four high-profile students all
family that he has never asked four become suspects. It's up
before. (Realistic Fiction) to them to solve the case.
(Mystery)
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah I Was Their American Dream : A
Johnson Graphic Memoir by Malaka
Liz Lighty has always done her best to Gharib
avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, The daughter of parents with
and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, unfulfilled dreams themselves,
after all, her family is black and rather poor, Malaka navigated her childhood
especially since her mother died. But when chasing her parents' ideals,
an independent scholarship falls through, learning to code-switch between
she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom her family's Filipino and Egyptian
king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of customs, adapting to white culture
social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to
about her own identity and the value of true friendships. understand the tension between holding onto cultural
(Realistic Fiction) values and trying to be an all-American kid. (Graphic
Novel Nonfiction)
The Natural by Bernard Malamud The Contender by Robert
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Lipsyte
the career of baseball player Roy After a successful start in a
Hobbs, a natural with a bat whose boxing career, a Harlem high
dreams of playing in the big leagues school dropout decides that
are deferred by a youthful indiscretion, competing in the ring isn't
but who finally becomes a hero. enough of life and resolves to
(Classic Sports) aim for different goals. (Classic
Sports)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Feed by M.T. Anderson
A satirical novel about the utopia of In a future where most people
the future, a world in which babies are have computer implants in their
decanted from bottles and the great heads to control their
Ford is worshiped. (Classic Science environment, a boy meets an
Fiction) unusual girl who is in serious
trouble. (Science Fiction)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo The Perks of Being a
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and Wallflower by Stephen
unable to hide in her Harlem Chbosky
neighborhood. Ever since her body Charlie, a freshman in high
grew into curves, she has learned to school, explores the dilemmas
let her fists and her fierceness do the of growing up through a
talking. (Novel in Verse) collection of letters he sends to
an unknown receiver.
(Realistic Fiction)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Uglies by Scott Westfeld
Night-Time by Mark Haddon Tally is faced with a difficult
Despite his overwhelming fear of choice when her new friend
interacting with people, Christopher, a Shay decides to risk life on the
mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen- outside rather than submit to the
year-old boy, decides to investigate forced operation that turns
the murder of a neighbor's dog and sixteen-year-old girls into
uncovers secret information about his gorgeous beauties, and realizes
mother. (Mystery) that there is a whole new side to
the pretty world that she does
not like. (Science Fiction)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Frank "Writing letters to the late Dr.
An adolescent Jewish girl chronicles her Martin Luther King Jr.,
experiences over the years she and seventeen-year-old college-
several others hid from the Nazis in a bound Justyce McAllister
secret apartment before being struggles to face the reality of
discovered and sent to concentration race relations today and how
camps. Includes entries previously they are shaping him.
omitted. (Classic Nonfiction) (Realistic Fiction)
This Tender Land by William Kent Walk In My Combat Boots: True
Krueger Stories From America's Bravest
In the summer of 1932, on the banks Warriors by James Patterson and
of Minnesota's GileadRiver, Odie Matt Eversmann, First Sergeant,
O'Banion is an orphan confined to USA, Ret. with Chris Mooney
the Lincoln Indian Training School, a A collection crafted from hundreds
pitiless place where his lively nature of original interviews by James
earns him the superintendent's wrath. Patterson and First Sergeant US
Forced to flee after committing a Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann.
terrible crime, he and his brother, These are the brutally honest
Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a stories usually only shared amongst comrades in
brokenhearted little girl named arms. Here is a rare look into what wearing the
Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends and
Mississippi and a place to call their own. (Historical Fiction) coming home is really like. (Nonfiction)
Crossing The Line : A Fearless Team The Book Thief by Markus
of Brothers and the Sport that Zusak
Changed Their Lives Forever by Trying to make sense of the
Kareem Rosser horrors of World War II, Death
A memoir of defying the odds from relates the story of Liesel--a
Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all- young German girl whose book-
black squad to win the National stealing and story-telling talents
Interscholastic Polo championship. help sustain her family and the
(Nonfiction) Jewish man they are hiding, as
well as their neighbors.
(Historical Fiction)
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes,
Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Remarkable Results: An Easy &
Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Proven Way To Build Good Habits &
Tyson with James Trefil Break Bad Ones by James Clear
An exploration of some of the deepest A leading expert on habit formation
questions about our place in the reveals practical strategies to form
universe. (Nonfiction) good habits, break bad ones, and
master the tiny behaviors that lead to
remarkable results. (Nonfiction)
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