IS Recommended Reading List
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem | Becoming Kareem |
| Abelove, Joan | Go and Come Back, Say It Out Loud |
| Alexander, Kwame | Crossover, Rebound, Solo |
| Anderson. L. H. | Speak, Fever 1793, Chains |
| Anderson, M.T. | Burger Wuss, Feed, Symphony for the City of the Dead |
| Anonymous | Go Ask Alice; Annie's Baby |
| Asher, Jay | Thirteen Reasons Why |
| Bagdasarian, A. | First French Kiss |
| Bauer, J. | Squashed; Rules of the Road ; Hope Was Here; Stand Tall |
| Bausum, Ann | Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights |
| Beatty, Patricia | Turn Homeward, Hanalee (others) |
| Benjamin, Ali | The Thing About Jellyfish |
| Bloor, Edward | Tangerine |
| Blume, Judy | Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret, Deenie, Forever (others) |
| Bolden, Tonya | Pathfinders: The Journey of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls |
| Bowling, Dusti | Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus |
| Brashares, Ann | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (series) |
| Brook, Bruce | The Moves Make the Man |
| Brown, Daniel | The Boys in the Boat (Young Reader's Edition) |
| Brown, Don | Drowned City |
| Bunting, Eve | Blackwater |
| Butler, Octavia | Kindred |
| Cabot, M. | The Princess Diaries (series) |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl With Pearl Earring |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile (and others) |
| Clements, A. | Things Not Seen |
| Connor, Leslie | The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, Waiting for Normal (others) |
| Coman, Carolyn | Many Stones |
| Conford, Ellen | Crush |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War; Heroes; Frenchtown Summer |
| Courtenay, Bryce | The Power of One |
| Crew, Linda | Children of the River |
| Crutcher, Chris | Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk |
| Dashner, Janes | The Maze Runner (series) |
| Deuker, Carl | On the Devil's Court, Gym Candy, Gutless |
| Dimaline, Cherie | The Marrow Thieves |
| Dooley, Sarah | Ashes to Asheville |
| Dorris, Michael | The Window |
| Dowell, Frances | Dovey Coe |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Sign of Four (and others) |
| Draper, Sharon | Stella by Starlight, Out of My Mind |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers (R) |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca; Jamaica Inn; My Cousin Rachel |
| Engle, Margerita | Enchanted Air, Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics |
| Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster; The House of the Scorpion, The Eye, the Ear and the Arm |
| Feinstein, John | Foul Trouble, Last Shot (and others in The Sports Beat series) |
| Ferris, Jean | Love Among the Walnuts; Of Sound Mind; Once Upon a Marigold |
| Fine, Anne | Flour Babies |
| Flake, Sharon | The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry |
| Fleischman, Paul | Whirligig, Mind's Eye, Seedfolks, Seek |
| Flores-Galbis, Enrique | 90 Miles to Havana |
| Forester, C.S. | The African Queen; Hornblower Series |
| Fox, Paula | The Eagle Kite |
| Francis, Dick | Trial Run (and others) |
| Gaarder, J. | Sophie's World; The Solitaire Mystery |
| Gaiman, Neil | Stardust, The Graveyard Book |
| Gaines, Ernest | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman; A Lesson Before Dying |
| Gantos, Jack | Dead End in Norvelt, The Trouble in Me, Joey Pigza series |
| Garland, Sherry | The Silent Storm |
| Gemienhart, Dan | The Honest Truth, Some Kind of Courage, Scar Island |
| Gephart, Donna | Lily and Dunkin |
| Gidwitz, Adam | The Inquisitor's Tale |
| Giff, P. | Pictures of Hollis Woods |
| Going, K.L. | Fat Kids Rule the World |
| Gratz, Alan | Refugee, Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065 (and others) |
| Green, John | The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, Turtles all the Way Down |
| Greene, Betty | Summer of My German Soldier |
| Graudin, Ryan | Wolf by Wolf |
| Grimes, Nikki | Bronx Masquerade, Words with Wings, Garvey's Choice |
| Haddix, Margaret | Uprising, Double Identity, Found (series) |
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
| Hahn, M.D. | Look for Me by Moonlight, Stepping on the Cracks, Took |
| Haley, Alex | Roots |
| Hamilton, Virginia | The House of Dies Drear; Sweet Whispers Brother Rush |
| Hammett, Dashiel | The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man |
| Hartland, Jessie | Steve Jobs: Insanely Great |
| Hautman, Pete | Hole in the Sky |
| Heligman, Deborah | Vincent and Theo: The van Gogh Brothers |
| Hemingway, E. | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Heneghan, James | The Grave |
| Henkes, Kevin | Olive's Ocean |
| Hesse, Karen | Phoenix Rising; Out of the Dust; Witness |
| Hesser, Terry | Kissing Doorknobs |
| Hewett, L. | Dancer |
| Hiaasen, C. | Hoot, Chomp, Skink No Surrender |
| Hickman, Homer | Rocket Boys |
| Hillerman, Tony | Listening Woman (others) |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders; That Was Then, This is Now (and others) |
| Holt, Kimberly | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town; Keeper of the Night |
| Hopkinson, Deborah | The Great Trouble |
| Horowitz, Anthony | Storm Breaker, Eagle Strike (Alex Rider series) |
| Howe, James | The Watcher; The Misfits |
| Howe, Norma | The Adventures of Blue Avenger ; Blue Avenger Cracks the Code |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils; Up a Road Slowly (Civil War) |
| Hunt, Lynda M. | Fish in a Tree |
| Hunter, Mollie | A Sound of Chariots; Hold On To Love |
| Hurwin, D. | A Time for Dancing |
| Hyde, Catherine R. | Pay it Forward |
| Jamieson, Victoria | Roller Girl |
| Johnson, Angela | Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last |
| Kantor, MacKinlay | Andersonville |
| Kaufman, Amie | Illuminae |
| Keith, Harold | Rifles for Waitie* |
| Kelly, Erin Entrada | Hello, Universe, The Land of Forgotten Girls |
| Kindl, Patrice | The Woman in the Wall, Owl in Love, Goose Chase, Lost in the Labyrinth |
| King, Stephen | The Eyes of the Dragon, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon |
| Klass, D. | You Don't Know Me |
| Klause, Annette | The Silver Kiss |
| Lai, Thenha | Listen Slowly, Inside Out and Back Again |
| Lee, Sungju | Every Falling Star |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Ring of Endless Light ; Troubling a Star ; And Both Were Young |
| Levinson, Cynthia and Sanford | Fault Lines in the Constitution |
| Levitin, Sonia | Dream Freedom; Room in the Heart |
| Lewis, John | March (series) |
| Lawrence, Iain | Ghost Boy; Lightkeeper's Daughter; The Buccaneers |
| Lloyd, Natalie | Snicker of Magic |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild; White Fang (and others) |
| Lore, Pittacus | I am Number Four |
| Lowery, Lynda B. | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom |
| Lu, Marie | Legend (series) |
| MacInnes, Helen | The Salzburg Connection (and others) |
| Maclean, Alistair | Ice Station Zebra; Where Eagles Dare (and others) |
| Mahy, Margaret | Memory; The Tricksters; 24 Hours |
| Marsden, John | Tomorrow, When the War Began; Letters From the Inside |
| Martin, A. | A Corner of the Universe |
| Martinez, Victor | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida |
| Mayer, Marissa | Cinder (series) |
| Mazer, N.F. | Silver; After the Rain |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | The Pirate's Son; Stop the Train |
| McDonald, Janet | Spellbound; Chill Wind |
| McKinly, Robin | A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories; Beauty; Rose Daughter |
| Medina, Meg | Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass |
| Menon, Sandhya | When Dimple Met Rishi |
| Mikaelsen, Ben | Touching Spirit Bear |
| Milford, Kate | Greenglass House |
| Mori, Kyoko | Shizuko's Daughter; One Bird |
| Moriarty, Jaclyn | Feeling Sorry For Celia, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie, A Tangle of Gold |
| Mosher, Richard | Zazoo |
| Murphy, C. | Free Radical |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels; Monster; 145th Street |
| Na, An | A Step From Heaven |
| Naido, Bev | The Other Side of Truth; Out of Bounds |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | Sirena; Stones in the Water |
| Nolan, Han | Dancing on the Edge |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Big Mouth and Ugly Girl; Green Eyes |
| O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl; Sing Down the Moon; The Serpent Never Sleeps* |
| Older, Daniel Jose | Shadowshaper |
| Oneal, Zibby | The Language of Goldfish; In Summer Light |
| Park, Linda Sue | When My Name Was Keoko |
| Oppel, Kenneth | The Boundless, Airborn (series) |
| Parks, Gordon | The Learning Tree * |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved; Of Nightingales That Weep;The Same Stuff as Stars |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet, Canyons, Liar, Liar, The Winter Room; Lawn Boy |
| Peck, Richard | The River Between Us; Strays Like Us; Fair Weather; The Best Man |
| Priest, Cherie | I am Princess X |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | The Education of Robert Nifkin |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen; Zebra and Other Stories |
| Pullman, Philip | The Ruby in the Smoke; The Golden Compass (series), The Book Of Dust |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys; Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Reeder, C. | Before the Creeks Ran Red |
| Rees, C. | Witch Child, Pirates |
| Rennison, Louise | Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging; On the Bright Side... |
| Reynolds, Jason | Ghost (Track Series), Long Way Down, All-American Boys |
| Rinaldi, Ann | An Acquaintance with Darkness; The Last Silk Dress * |
| Riordan, Rick | Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series), Heroes of Olympus (series), Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard |
| Rose, Reginald | 12 Angry Men |
| Rowling, J.R. | Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (series) |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | The Dreamer, Echo, Esperanza Rising |
| Sacher, Louis | Holes |
| Salisbury, Graham | Blue Skin of the Sea; Lord of the Deep; Island Boyz |
| Satrapi, Marjane | Persepolis: The True Story of a Childhood |
| Gary Schmidt | Okay for Now, Wednesday Wars, Orbiting Jupiter, Trouble |
| Sepetys, Ruta | Between Shades of Gray, Salt to the Sea |
| Shaara, Michael | Killer Angels * |
| Sheinkin, Steve | Most Dangerous, Undefeated, Bomb |
| Sheldon, D. | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; My Perfect Life |
| Shusterman, N. | Everlost (series), Unwind (series), Scythe |
| Slade, Arthur | Tribes, Dust |
| Slater, Dashka | The 57 Bus |
| Sleator, W. | The Boxes (others) |
| Sloan, Holly G. | Counting by 7's, Short |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Joy in the Morning |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Milkweed, The Warden's Daughter, Stargirl |
| Staples, Suzanne F. | Dangerous Skies; Shabanu; Shiva's Fire |
| Stead, Rebecca | When You Reach Me, Goodbye Stranger |
| Steinbeck, John | The Red Pony; The Pearl |
| Stevens, Robin | Murder is Bad Manners |
| Stevenson, Noelle | Nimona |
| Stevenson, Robert L. | Kidnapped; Treasure Island |
| Stewart, Mary | The Crystal Cave (series) |
| Stiefvater, Maggie | The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys (series), Shiver (series) |
| Stone, Nik | Dear Martin |
| Stork, Francisco | Marcelo in the Real World, The Memory of Light |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | Frontier Wolf; Warrior Scarlet; The Lantern Bearers |
| Tashjian, Janet | The Gospel According to Larry |
| Taylor, Mildred | Let the Circle Be Unbroken...*; The Land (others) |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay, The Bomb, The Weirdo (others) |
| Thomas, Angie | The Hate U Give |
| Thrash, Maggie | Honor Girl |
| Tolan, Stephanie | Surviving the Applewhites |
| Turner, Pamela | Samurai Rising |
| Twain, Mark | The Prince and the Pauper (and others) |
| Ullman, James | Banner in the Sky |
| Vawter, Vince | Paperboy |
| Van Draanen, W. | Sammy Keyes (series); Flipped |
| Van Velde, V. | Companions of the Night; Never Trust a Dead Man |
| Voigt, Cynthia | The Runner; Jackaroo (others) |
| Wallace, Rich | Wrestling Sturbridge |
| Watson, Renee | Piecing Me Together |
| Westerfield, Scott | The Uglies (series),Leviathan (series) |
| Wolk, Lauren | Wolf Hollow, Beyond the Bright Sea |
| Werlin, N. | Double Helix; Black Mirror; The Killer's Cousin |
| Whelan, Gloria | Homeless Bird |
| Wolff, Virginia | Bat 6; Make Lemonade; True Believer |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | A Way Out of No Way, If You Come Softly, Miracle's Boys, Hush, Brown Girl Dreaming |
| Yancey, Rick | The Fifth Wave |
| Yang, Gene Luen | Boxers and Saint, American Born Chinese |
| Yolen, Jane | The Gift of Sarah Barker; Armageddon Summer; Girl in a Cage |
| Yoon, Nicola | Everything, Everything |
| Zusak, Marcus | The Book Thief |
| Zindel, P. | The Pigman (others) |
updated 6/14/18