2015 SUMMER READING BOOKLIST
YOUNG ADULT (By Title, Author & Illustrator)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,
Sherman Alexie

American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
The Bluford High series, Paul Langan
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most
Dangerous Weapon, Steve Sheinkin

Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big
Business—and Won!, Emily Arnold McCully

If I Stay, Gayle Forman

The Legend trilogy, Marie Lu

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure,
Heroism & Treachery, Steve Sheinkin

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie,
Barbara Goldsmith

Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff
Inhuman, Kat Falls
The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How To Ruin Your Life in
Seven Days, Lisa Yee

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival,
Marcel Prins, Peter Henk Steenhuis & Laura Watkinson

“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of
John F. Kennedy, James L. Swanson
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer

The Raven Boys series, Maggie Stiefvater
Battle Magic, Tamora Pierce
Better Off Friends, Elizabeth Eulberg
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Can’t Look Away, Donna Cooner
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, James L. Swanson
The Darkest Path, Jeff Hirsch
The Divergent trilogy, Veronica Roth
The Divided We Fall trilogy, Trent Reedy
Embassy Row series, Ally Carter
Endangered, Eliot Schrefer
Fangirl: A Novel, Rainbow Rowell
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
The Freedom Summer Murders, Don Mitchell
The Geography of You and Me, Jennifer E. Smith
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The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers, Steve Sheinkin
The Lunar Chronicles series, Marissa Meyer
Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer, Katie Alender
The Maze Runner trilogy, James Dashner
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,
Ransom Riggs
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, Sonia Manzano
Rook, Sharon Cameron
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
The Selection series, Kiera Cass
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi
The Sin Eater’s Daughter, Melinda Salisbury
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
Trapped, Michael Northrop
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to
Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way),
Sue Macy
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek, Maya Van
Wagenen
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Waterfire Saga series, Jennifer Donnelly
Pinned, Sharon G. Flake
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