As a high school librarian, offering reading recommendations for students is one of my favorite parts of my job. These lists are for parents, educators, library workers, and teen readers. In particular, this list is aimed at current and rising eleventh graders.

Everyone is welcome to use these lists either as a whole (please credit me and let me know) or as inspiration. I always suggest providing students and teens a list of material to choose from rather than requiring all of them to read one thing. That way they can find something that meets them where they are or allows them to stretch at their own pace. The point of summer reading should be to foster a love of reading, not force every kid into the same small box.

I created these lists through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events and topics a student will likely encounter in their studies during the school year, and books they are unlikely to read for school. I also generally picked more recent materials. Preference to #ownvoices and marginalized authors.

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As a high school librarian, offering reading recommendations for students is one of my favorite parts of my job. These lists are for parents, educators, library workers, and teen readers. In particular, this list is aimed at current and rising tenth graders.

Everyone is welcome to use these lists either as a whole (please credit me and let me know) or as inspiration. I always suggest providing students and teens a list of material to choose from rather than requiring all of them to read one thing. That way they can find something that meets them where they are or allows them to stretch at their own pace. The point of summer reading should be to foster a love of reading, not force every kid into the same small box.

I created these lists through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events and topics a student will likely encounter in their studies during the school year, and books they are unlikely to read for school. I also generally picked more recent materials. Preference to #ownvoices and marginalized authors.

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As a high school librarian, offering reading recommendations for students is one of my favorite parts of my job. These lists are for parents, educators, library workers, and teen readers. In particular, this list is aimed at current and rising ninth graders.

Everyone is welcome to use these lists either as a whole (please credit me and let me know) or as inspiration. I always suggest providing students and teens a list of material to choose from rather than requiring all of them to read one thing. That way they can find something that meets them where they are or allows them to stretch at their own pace. The point of summer reading should be to foster a love of reading, not force every kid into the same small box.

I created these lists through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events and topics a student will likely encounter in their studies during the school year, and books they are unlikely to read for school. I also generally picked more recent materials. Preference to #ownvoices and marginalized authors.

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