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Centerville City Schools
High School Reading List 2022
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Defy the Night
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Brigid Kemmerer
Stealing supplies to help those in need after a devastating plague whose cure is only available to the wealthy, Tessa hatches a dangerous plan to tear down the divide between those with power and those without.
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Skin of the Sea
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Natasha Bowen
Simi, a Mami Wata--a type of mermaid who collects the souls of those who die at sea--goes against an ancient decree by saving the life of a living boy and must now make amends in order to save the fate of all Mami Wata and the world as she knows it.
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Wings of Ebony
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J. Elle
Taken away from her Houston neighborhood by the father she never knew in the aftermath of her mother's murder, a Black teen arrives on a hidden island of magic, where she discovers her half-god identity and responsibility in helping protect the mortal and immortal worlds.
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Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel
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Andrew Donkin
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
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Graceling: The Graphic Novel
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Gareth Hinds
A Graceling with the ability to kill a man with her bare hands, Katsa, the niece of the king, acts as his enforcer until she meets a foreign prince and learns about a terrible secret that could destroy them all.
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Grand Theft Horse
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Greg Neri
Recounts the experiences of horse trainer Gail Ruffu, who stole a racehorse in order to save it, and ended up taking on the whole racing industry to fight for the humane treatment of animals
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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Malinda Lo
With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath.
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Salt to the Sea: A Novel
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Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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Holly Jackson
Five years after the shattering murder and suicide of two popular teens, a skeptical high school student reexamines the case before uncovering disturbing clues about what really happened.
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Firekeeper's Daughter
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Angeline Boulley
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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The Cousins
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Karen M. McManus
Invited to their grandmother's island resort for the summer, three cousins who have never previously met uncover dark family secrets about why their parents were disinherited and what they must do to regain their grandmother's favor.
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The Inheritance Games
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Jennifer Barnes
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
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Gail Jarrow
James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She reveals medical mistakes made in the aftermath of Garfield's assassination through this gripping blend of science, history, and mystery.
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Concrete Rose
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Angie Thomas
Maverick feels strongly about family ties. He makes choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his father serves time, and his new son he learned about while holding him in a doctor's waiting room after he got the paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosted. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of everyone around him, including the gang who supports him financially, but could leave his family all bearing his responsibilities since it endangers his life. It looks like he may have been offered a chance to go straight, but leaving the King Lords won't be easy, and a "real" job has high demand for low return.
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How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
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Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
When she takes a job as a "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers, Moon Fuentez, the twin sister of a social media star, questions her destiny as the unnoticed, unloved wallflower she always thought she was.
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Me (Moth)
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Amber McBride
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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The Last Cuentista
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Donna Barba Higuera
There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth.
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Ready Player One
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Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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Skyhunter
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Marie Lu
Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for Mara, the only free nation in the world, but when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara's capital, Talin senses there is more to him than meets the eye.
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Arc of the Scythe
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Neal Shusterman
Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice.
Book 1: Scythe
Book 2: Thunderhead
Book 3: The Toll
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Aurora Cycle
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Amie Kaufman
Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
Book 1: Aurora Rising
Book 2: Aurora Burning
Book 3: Aurora's End
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Divergent
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Veronica Roth
In a dystopian future-era Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.
Book 1: Divergent
Book 2: Insurgent
Book 3: Allegiant
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The Hunger Games
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Suzanne Collins
Set in the cruel Capital of the nation of Panem, the annual Hunger Games pits young children against one another in a battle to the death on national TV, so when Katniss is ordered to represent her district, she knows an important decision between survival and the love of another will have to be made when she is called to enter the ring.
Book 1: The Hunger Games
Book 2: Catching Fire
Book 3: Mockingjay
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King of Scars
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Leigh Bardugo
A talented young king journeys to his country's most magical places to vanquish a dark magical force within him that is challenging his efforts to forge new alliances and build a defense against a rising threat.
Book 1: King of Scars
Book 2: Rule of Wolves
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Legend
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Marie Lu
Raised in an elite military family in a war-torn nation that was once the Western United States, 15-year-old June embarks on a revelatory cat-and-mouse manhunt for criminal youth Day, who is declared a prime suspect in the murder of June's brother.
Book 1: Legend
Book 2: Prodigy
Book 3: Champion
Book 4: Rebel
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Project Nemesis
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Brendan Reichs
Murdered every two years by the same mysterious person before waking up unhurt with all evidence erased, Min resolves to end the violent cycle before uncovering a conspiracy involving her classmates, a boy who suffers from destructive nightmares, and a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.
Book 1: Nemesis
Book 2: Genesis
Book 3: Chrysalis
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Bayview High
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Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates--including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete--are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
Book 1: One of Us Is Lying
Book 2: One of Us Is Next
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1984: A Novel
by
George Orwell
Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
The classic allegory on totalitarianism in which a farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality.
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The Catcher in the Rye
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J. D. Salinger
In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.
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Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A young man, newly rich, tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married.
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The Hobbit
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice.
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