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Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List

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After the Death of Anna Gonzales

Terri Fields Henry Holt and Co.

A powerful look at the effects of one girl’s suicide on her high school "I can feel The whispering of the hallway walls Growing louder as the groups...

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Dragon and Thief

The First Dragonback Adventure

Dragonback (#1 of 6)

Timothy Zahn Starscape

Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan is hiding out. In a spaceship. Falsely accused of a crime, he pilots his Uncle Virgil’s spaceship to a remote and...

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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

Martha Brooks Melanie Kroupa Books

“A quietly astonishing work of art.” – Starred, Quill & Quire In the midst of a heaven-rattling summer storm a young stranger blows into a...

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Letting Go of Bobby James

Or How I Found My Self of Steam

Valerie Hobbs Frances Foster Books

A heartwarming journey to self-discovery When sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker, known as Jody, is abandoned at a gas station by her husband after he hits...

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Dark Angel

David Klass Frances Foster Books

A taut psychological thriller for teens Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer...

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The Braid

Helen Frost Frances Foster Books

Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister – Jeannie, who leaves Scotland...

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Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book
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In Search of Mockingbird

Loretta Ellsworth Henry Holt and Co.

A runaway seeks Harper Lee for answers Sometimes the things that need to be discovered aren’t so easily found at home. Erin is certain that this is true in...

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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row

Susan Kuklin Henry Holt and Co.

No Choirboy takes readers inside America’s prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and...

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Derby Girl

Shauna Cross Henry Holt and Co.

Meet Bliss Cavendar, a blue haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in the tiny town of Bodeen, Texas. Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to compete for...

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Tasting the Sky

A Palestinian Childhood

Ibtisam Barakat Melanie Kroupa Books

Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my...

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Gabrielle Zevin Square Fish

Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?

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American Library Association Notable Children's Books
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Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
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Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Jill Wolfson Henry Holt and Co.

Dani was born with her heart on the wrong side of her body. In her fifteen years of life, she’s had more doctor’s appointments, X-rays, and tests, and eaten...

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Only a Witch Can Fly

Alison McGhee; Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo Feiwel & Friends

Timeless, universal, and surprising, this magical and poetic Halloween tale is a gentle reminder that in order to reach for the stars, you must follow your...

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American Library Association Notable Children's Books
Amazon.com Top 10 Editor’s Picks: Teens
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Booklist Editors' Choice
Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Rose by Any Other Name

by Maureen McCarthy Roaring Brook Press

Don'tcha just hate the way you get caught up in stuff without really wanting to? Then it goes a bit further, and suddenly you're one of those jerks you hate...

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I Heard God Talking to Me

William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings

Elizabeth Spires Frances Foster Books

One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...

CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
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Will Weaver Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper

The times they are a-changin' . . . The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family...

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American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
Arizona Grand Canyon Young Readers Master List
Kentucky Blue Grass Award Master List
Tennessee Intermediate Volunteer State Book Award Master List
Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List

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The Poison Apples

Lily Archer Square Fish

Stepdaughters of the world, unite!

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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow Tor Teen

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to...

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VOYA's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
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