Class of 2019 Names Favorite Books

At the close of the 2015-2016 school year, members of the class of 2019 (the freshman class) selected their favorite books.  These are some of their top selections for pleasure reading:

A 52-Hertz Whale by Bill Sommer and  Natalie Haney Tilghman

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

American Sniper by Chris Kyle

Ashfall by Mike Mullen

Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena

The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Black and White by Paul Volponi

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Boy 21 by Matthew Quick

Bright Lights, Dark Nights by Stephen Emond

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders by Geoff Herbach

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Hate List by Jennifer Brown

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

I am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff

If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul

Night Hoops by Carl Deuker

November Blues by Sharon Draper

The Perfect Shot by Elaine Marie Alphin

Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach

Sunrise the Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

Swim the Fly by Don Calame

Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

Tyrell by Coe Booth

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

We Were Here by Matt de la Pena

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

The Young Elites by Marie Lu

Zach’s Lie by Roland Smith