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Paideia Junior High School Summer Reading 2024: Book Club Choices

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Junior High Book Club choices, 2011-2024
- Thirteen years of 7th & 8th grade book club selections -- really good reading!

2023-2024

2022-2023

2021-2022

The First 10 Years (2011-2021)

2020-2021

Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Adieh

The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

 

2019-2020

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

The Living by Matt de la Peña

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Graceling by Kristen Cashore

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

 

2018-2019

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

Geekerella by Ashley Poston

Let It Snow (stories) by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

The Adoration of Jessa Fox  by Mary E. Pearson

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus

 

2017-2018

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

Scythe  by Neal Shusterman

Don't Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowskiu

Every Day by David Levithan

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

The Miseducation of Cameron Post  by emily m. danforth

 

2016-2017

The Rule of Three by Eric Waters

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason reynolds

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Rest of Us Just Live Here  by Patrick Ness

2015-2016

Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed

Dream Things True by Marie Marquardt

 

2014-2015

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy

I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda  by Becky Albertalli

2013-2014

DivN8 (working draft; unpublished) by Brian Eames

There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff

Every Day by David Levithan

Legend by Marie Lu

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

 

2012-2013

Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel

Graceling by Kristen Cashore

Bruiser by Neal Shusterman

Tighter by Adele Griffin

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

Tamar by Mal Peet

 

2011-2012 

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Divergent by Veronica Roth