Suggested Reads for
9th Grade
Hungry Ghost Victoria Ying T GN YING,V
Slip Marika McCoola T GN MCCO,M
Last Sunrise in Eterna Amparo Ortiz T ORTI,A
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at her priorities, her choices, and her own body.
A young pottery student finds her artistic voice and first love at an art camp, while also coping with feelings of guilt and worry about her best friend, who recently attempted suicide.
Scavenging and selling elf corpses to support her family, seventeen-year-old goth Sevim finds a chance encounter with an elf prince setting her revenge in motion and must enter the magical elven realm where her fate is linked to someone she least expected.
One of Us is Lying Karen McManus T MCMA,K
Gilded Marissa Meyer T MEYE,M
Blood Debts Terry J. Benton-Walker T BENT,T
When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students, all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case
Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories. When one of Serilda's tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking, he orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods.
Throwback Maurene Goo T GOO,M
Invisible Son Kim Johnson T JOHN,K
Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.
After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.
Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans's magic and nonmagic communities and find out who cursed their mother.
As You Walk on By Julian Winters T WINT,J After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as he thinks he is.