Belleville West Students Make Summer Reading Recommendations

Throughout the 2018-2019 school year, Belleville West students recommended some of their favorite books.  Below is a list of all the student suggestions.  If you’re looking for some summer reading, this list includes something for everyone!

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Ashfall by Mike Mullin

Bang by Sharon Flake

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Born to Rock by Gordon Korman

Burned by Ellen Hopkins

The Cabin by Natasha Preston

Caged Warrior by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

The Cellar by Natasha Preston

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Cujo by Stephen King

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Curveball: The Year I Lost my Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Define “Normal” by Julie Anne Peters

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Did I Mention I Love You by Estelle Maskame

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Expelled by James Patterson

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Fade by Lisa McMann

Fairy Tale by Hiro Mashima

Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Far from You by Tess Sharpe

For Everyone by Jason Reynolds

Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell

Girl in Pieces by Katherine Glasgow

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gone by Michael Grant

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Grand and Humble by Bert Hartinger

Grenade by Alan Gratz

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

If I was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

A Lady at Willowgrove Hall by Sarah E. Ladd

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Lost Boy by David Pelzer

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

The Martian by Andy Weir

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

Misery by Stephen King

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Morte by Robert Repino

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

New Boy by Julian Houston

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

One Day by David Nicholls

One More Thing by B.J. Novak

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

The Outsider by Stephen King

Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang

Rebound by Kwame Alexander

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Roar by Cora Carmack

Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler

Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Search for Safety by John Langan

Secrets in the Shadows by Anne Schraff

The Shack by William P. Young

The Siren by Kiera Cass

Slacker by Gordon Korman

Speed Queen by Stewart O’Nan

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

Surface Tension by Mike Mullins

Swing by Kwame Alexander

Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Flake

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Third Victim by Robert Margolin

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

This is Not the End by Chandler Baker

This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Tradition by Brendan Kiely

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

V is for Villain by Peter Moore

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

What it Takes by Mark Herzlich

When We Wake by Karen Healey

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

You Will be Mine by Natasha Preston

Zoo by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge