Past Books for Grades 6 – 12 Age Group

2024 (Gr 6 – 12)

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Gideon Green in Black and White by Katie Henry

2023 (Gr 6 – 12)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize by Margo Rabb
Warcross by Marie Lu

2022 (Gr 6 – 12)

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
Wink by Rob Harrell
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

2021 (Gr 6 – 12)

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

2019 (Gr 6 – 10)

Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Restart by Gordon Korman
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandyha Menon

2018 (Gr 6 – 10)

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

2017 (Gr 6 – 10)

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Michael Vey, the Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Jackaby by William Ritter
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

2016 (Gr 6 – 10)

Every Day by David Levithan
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

2015 (Gr 6 – 10)

How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride
Legend by Marie Lu
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

2014 (Gr 6 – 9)

Divergent by Veronica Roth
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steven Sheinkin
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson