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      Below is a list of books recommended by middle/junior high and high school students.  *      
           
 

   Books That Make You Laugh Out Loud

   Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner

   Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
   Schooled by Gordon Korman
   Girl, 15, Charming by Insane by Sue Limb
   Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise
          Rennison
   I Am American (and So Can You) by Stephen Colbert
   Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 

 

   Worst-Case Scenario (Survival Stories)

   Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
   Surviving Antarctica by Andrea White
   Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
   I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
   Alice by Piers Paul Read
  
   Books by Gary Paulsen

  

 
                       
 

  Spies, Secret Agents, and Suspenseful Stuff

   The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
   Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown
   The Shack
by William Young
   Black
by Ted Dekker
   Acceleration
by Graham McNamee
   Along Came a Spider
by James Patterson
   Cherub
series by Robert Muchamore
   James Bond books by Ian Fleming
   Books by Anthony Horowitz
   Books by Tom Clancy
 

 
  
   Betcha Can't Read Just One! (Series)

   Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
   Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
   Cherub by Robert Muchamore
   Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
   James Bond by Charles Higson
   Pendragon by D. J. MacHale
   Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
   Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
   Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
   Maximum Ride by James Patterson
 

 
                   
 

   More Than Just a Game (Sports)

   Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
   Bleachers
by John Grisham
   Mind Gym by Gary Mack
   Heat by Mike Lupica
   Juiced by Jose Canseco
   Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
   Crackback by John Coy
 

 
  
   Tales from the Battlefield (War)

   Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
   Shooter by Sgt. Jack Coughlin
   Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
   Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
   Generation Kill
by Evan Wright
   Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
   From Baghdad, with Love
by Jay Kopelman
 

 
                     
 

   Terrific Terrors

   Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
   Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
   The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
   The Rag and Bone Shop
by Robert Cormier
   books by Stephen King

 

  Don't Miss These (Miscellaneous Must-Reads)

   Looking for Alaska by John Green
   Al Capone Does My Shirts by Genniger Choldenko
   The Year of Secret Assignments
by Jaclyn Moriarty
   Corner of the Universe Ann Martin
   Go Ask Alice (anonymous)
   You Don't Know Me by David Klass
   Crank by Ellen Hopkins
   Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
   Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
   The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
   Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
   Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
   Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald
   Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
   One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
          by Sonya Sones

 
         
 

   So In Love

   Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
   Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
   Scribbler of Dreams by Mary Pearson
   Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
   The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
   books by Sarah Dessen

   
     
           
                   
 

Charity Cantey , a librarian at University High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, worked with 7th - 12th grade students to develop a must read list of books.  The compiled groups are books most frequently checked out and repeatedly recommended by the students.  ccantey@lsu.edu