Thompson Junior High School

 

Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan

Hidden by Helen Frost

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy Cavanaugh

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

Michael Vey:  Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Evans

Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle

The President has been Shot by James L. Swanson

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Rump by Liesl Shurtliff

See You at Harry’s by Johanna Knowles

Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson

Will in Scarlet by Matthew Cody

 

 

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Case of Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer

The Classroom:  The Epic Documentary of a Not-Yet Epic Kid by Robin Mellom

D-Day:  The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 by Rick Atkinson

House of Secrets by Columbus & Vizzini

Inherit Midnight by Kate Kae Myers

Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkowski

Skink No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

               

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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor 
 
 Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
 
Beneath by Roland Smith 
 
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan 
 
The Book Scavenger by Jennifer Bertman
 
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson 
 
Drowned City:  Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown
 
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton 
 
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar 
 
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead 
 
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
 
Hour of Bees by Lindsay Eagar
 
I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest 
 
 I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda
 
Last in a Long Line of Rebels by Lisa Lewis Tyre 
 
Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai 
 
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen 
 
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt 
 
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
 
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall 

 

 

Geek Girl by Holly Smale
 
Goodbye, Rebel Blue by Shelley Coriell
 
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
 
Losers Take All by David Klass
 
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
 
Projeckt 1065 by Alan Gratz
 
School for Sidekicks by Kelly McCullough
 
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
 
The Possibility of Now by Kim Culbertson
 
The Six by Mark Alpert
 
The Swap by Megan Shull
 
Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake
 
Zero Day by Jan Gangsei

 

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Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle

Booked by Kwame Alexander

Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson

The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz

The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

March, Book 1 by John Lewis

Me and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King

Moo by Sharon Creech

Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson

One Half from the East by Nadia Hashimi

Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

 Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson

Unbound by Ann Burg

Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin 

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie Lamana

We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman

 

Child Soldier by Jessica Dee Humphreys & Michel Chikwanine Illustrated by Claudia Davila

Genius by Leopoldo Gout

How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy By Crystal Allen

I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin

Murder is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth by Don Brown & Dr. Mike Perfit

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

Princeless X:  Book One: Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley

Since You Asked by Maurene Goo

The First Rule of Punk of Celia C. Perez

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

The Reader by Traci Chee

The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

 

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All Thirteen:  The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden

The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman

Chirp by Kate Messner

Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner

Katie the Catsitter by Colleen A.F. Venable and Stephanie Yue

Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya

The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie

This is Your Brain on Stereotypes by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas

When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

Wink by Rob Harrell

 

 

The Brave by James Bird

Camp Murderface by Josh Berk and Saundra Mitchell

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

The House in Poplar Woods by KE Ormsbee 

Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found by Rucker Moses and Theo Gangi 

Legacy: Women Poets of Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green

The Magic Fish by Le Nguyen Trung

The Mystery of the Moon Tower by Francesco Sedita & Prescott Seraydarian

The North Star by Kat Shepherd

Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg

Pink Hair and Other Terrible Ideas by Andrea Pyros

Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Reckless, Glorious, Girl by Ellen Hagan

Unplugged by Gordon Korman

We Belong by Cookie Hiponia Everman

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

 

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