Here are some recommendations from former students.

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Albom, Mitch – For One More Day

Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak, Prom

Anderson, M.T. - Feed

Avi - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Never Mind (with Rachel Vail)

Bauer, Joan - Rules of the Road

Bishop, Claire Hutchet – Twenty and Ten

Bissinger, J.G. - Friday Night Lights

Bloor, Edward -Tangerine

Bowen, Fred - Full Court Fever, Golden Glove

Brashares, Ann - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (4 books)

Brooks, Bruce - Moves Make the Man

Brouwer, Sigmund - “Sports Mysteries” series

and “Short Cut Sports Mysteries” series

Brouwer, Susannah - Lightning on Ice

Cheripko, Jan - Imitate the Tiger

Chotjewitz, David – Half Human

Christopher, Matt - The Kid Who Only Hit Homers

Clements, Andrew - A Week in the Woods

Cody, Elizabeth - Libby B. on the Brink of Cool

Coffer, Eoin – the “Artemis Fowl” books

Collier, James Lincoln Collier – The Empty Mirror

Cooney, Caroline  - The Face on the Milk Carton series, Driver’s Ed, Flash Fire, Code Orange

Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese

Creech, Sharon - Replay

Crutcher, Chris – Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrns, Running Loose

Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bud, Not Buddy

Dessen, Sarah - This Lullaby, Just Listen and others

Deuker, Carl - On the Devil’s Court, Painting the Black

DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn-Dixie, Tale of Desperaux, The Tiger Rising

Dickinson, Peter - Eva

Donnelly, Jennifer - A Northern Light

Dowell, Frances O’Roark – The Language of Girls

Duncan, Lois – Ransom, The Third Eye

DuPrau, Jeanne - City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, The Diamond of Darkhold

Funke, Cornelia – Inkheart, Inkspell

Gerber, Linda – Death by Latte

Giff, Patricia Reilly - Pictures of Hollis Woods, A House of Tailors

Harrison, Lisl – the “Clique” novels

Hesse, Karen - Witness

Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot

Hinton, S.E. – Rumblefish; That Was Then, This Is Now

Hopkins, Cathy - Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses

Horowitz, Anthony – the “Alex Rider” series

Koss, Amy Goldman - The Cheat

Korman, Gordon - No More Dead Dogs, Son of the Mob, Schooled

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia

Lowenstein, Sallie – Sender Unknown

Lynch, Chris – Ice Man

Matas, Carol - After the War

McDonald, Joyce - Swallowing Stones

Mikaelsen, Ben - Red Midnight, Touching Spirit Bear

Myers, Walter Dean - Fallen Angel, Monster, Slam!

Myron, Vicki – Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Nimmo, Jenny – the “Charlie Bone” books

Philbrick, Rodman - Freak the Mighty

Pierce, Tamora – The Will of the Empress

Riordan, Rick – The Lightning Thief

Rowling, J.K. - “Harry Potter” series

Schmidt, Gary D. – The Wednesday Wars

Schumacher, Julie – The Chain Letter

Schusterman, Neal – Downsiders, The Shadow Club, The Schwa Was Here

Selznick, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Shan, Darren - Cirque du Freak series

Shreve, Susan – Under the Watson’s Porch

Spielgelman, Art - Maus and Maus II

Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Milkweed

Swallow, Pamela Curtis – It Only Looks Easy

Tolan, Stephanie S. -Surviving the Applewaites

Tolkien, J.R.R. - “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and The Hobbit

Weeks, Sarah – So B. It

Weyn, Suzanne - The Bar Code Tattoo and The Bar Code Rebellion

Williams, Brian and Roderick Gordon – Tunnels and Deeper

Winerip, Michael – Adam Canfield of the Slash

Wolff, Virginia Euwer - Make Lemonade, Bat 6

Woodson, Jacqueline - Feathers