Grades
10-12
Book List

Choose ONE book from the required reading list below.

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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Lexile HL800L

Novel in Verse/ Realistic Fiction/LGBTQ

Read ebook on Hoopla with no waitlist

Audiobook and ebook on Sora

Golden Arm by Carl Deuker

Lexile 690L

Sports

Read ebook on Hoopla with no waitlist

Audiobook and ebook on Sora

The Inheritance Games
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Lexile 640L

Mystery

Unlimited audiobook and ebook copies on Sora without waitlists

Landscape with Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson

Lexile HL730L

Science Fiction

ebook on Sora

Audiobook available for purchase on Audible or Audiobooks.com

Love in English
by Maria E. Andreu

Lexile not available

Romance

Audiobook and ebook on Sora

Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland

Lexile HL650L

Graphic Novel/ Biography

Available in Spanish in Print

ebook on Sora in English
ebook on Sora in Spanish

Book Trailers and Author Videos

Clap When You Land

This novel in verse tells the story of Camino Rios who lives in the Dominican Republic and Yahaira Rios who lives in New York City. They are devastated when their father is killed in a plane crash and are stunned to learn of each other's existence.

Golden Arm

Lazarus wants to escape the trailer park where he lives with his mother and brother. He receives an invitation to move in with a family in another town to pitch for their high-profile baseball team. It's his chance to impress major-league scouts, but he will have to leave his brother behind who is getting into drugs.

Infinity Son

Emil doesn't want superpowers, but his twin brother Brighton does. When Emil discovers he has powers, the brothers get caught up into a supernatural war. Their loyalty to each other is also tested.

The Inheritance Games

Avery Grambs is living in her car when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery his fortune. But Avery has no idea who Tobias Hawthorne is. The catch? To receive her inheritance, Avery must live in his mansion for one year with his four grandsons who were just disinherited. Avery will have to solve a puzzle to find out why the fortune was left to her.

Landscape with Invisible Hand

After aliens called the vuvv land on earth, human jobs are replaced with alien technology. Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine. So Adam and his girlfriend come up with a solution.

Love in English

After Ana moves to the U.S. from Argentina, she needs to learn English. She is a poet but she has trouble expressing how she feels. Ana likes an American boy in her math class. But she also enjoys spending time with Neo, a boy from Greece who is in her ESL class. While Ana is trying to learn English, she is also learning about love.

Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

This graphic novel presents the biography of Steve Jobs, including how he developed Apple Computer, Pixar, Macs, iPods, iPhones, and more.