He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself–or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. This list is also available on .īarely Missing Everything by Matthew Mendez I also tried to pick materials that published in the last decade, with preference going to #ownvoices and/or marginalized authors. This list was created through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events a student would likely encounter in their studies that year, and books they were unlikely to read for school. This particular post is for twelfth graders. With summer rapidly approaching and the pandemic giving a lot of people cabin fever, I figured I’d put together a book list of recommendations for high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. As a teen librarian, offering reading recommendations for high school students is the biggest – and best! – part of my job.
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