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