YS Staff Picks Grades 9 thru 12

Our Favorite Reads

suggested grades 9 thru 12 titles

• A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein 
• Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman 
• March graphic novel series by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  Book One     Book Two    Book Three
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee 
• Dig by A. S. King 
• Bone Gap by Laura Ruby 
• Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick 
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 
• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley 
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 
• Damsel by Elana K. Arnold 
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 
• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston 
• The Archived by Victoria Schwab 
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fizgerald 
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak 
• The Betrothed by Kiera Cass 
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus