Name That Book, High School

Title	Author	Genre	Lexile	Summary
Alchemist	Coelho	Fantasy		A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being.
Along for the ride	Dessen	YA fiction	730	When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Angelology	Trussoni	Fantasy		Having entered a convent at a young age, Sister Evangeline discovers a letter from famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller that reveals an ancient conflict between an angel society Evangeline is destined to join and the human descendants of the Nephilim.
Angels and Demons	Brown	Mystery/Thriller		The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.
Art of Racing in the rain	Stein	Adult fiction		Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
Beautiful creatures	Garcia	Fantasy		In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Breathe my name	Nelson	YA fiction	560	Since her adoption, Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters.
Bride's farewell	Rossoff	Historical fiction		A young girl runs away from home on horseback on her wedding day, heading to Salisbury Fair to seek work, and is surprised by the strength of her feelings for those she left behind.
Brief history of Montmaray	Cooper	Historical fiction	1010	On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
Charles and Emma: Darwin's leap of faith	Heligman	Non-Fiction	1020	Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's strong religious beliefs.
City of thieves	Bennioff	Historical Fiction		Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
Finding Lubchenko	Simmons	Mystery	760	When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
Flight	Alexie	Science Fiction	550	On the verge of committing an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into various bodies, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences.
Gentlemen	Northrop	Mystery	860	When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
Going Bovine	Bray	YA fiction		A disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Gringolandia	Miller-Lachmann	Historical fiction		In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.
Help	Stockett	Historical fiction		Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed	Abrahams	Non-Fiction		A stand-up comedian describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.
Importance of being Earnest	Wilde	Classic		The play pokes fun at the aristocracy, the literary world, and British manners and customs, while calling into question the very notion of “identity.
Interworld	Gaiman	Science Fiction	830	Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
Kids are all right - a memoir	Welch	Nonfiction		A family story told from the viewpoints of its four children describes how they lost their parents and their privileged lifestyle and were separated into different homes, where they struggled to achieve independence and find one another.
Lost land of Z	Grann	Nonfiction		Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.
Love in the time of Cholera	Garcia-Marquez	Classic		Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love.
Marcelo in the real world	Stork	YA fiction	700	A seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Monstrumologist	Yancey	Fantasy		Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
People of the book	Brooks	Adult fiction		Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins
Reader	Schlinck	Adult fiction		Falling ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. They develop a close relationship and one day Hanna disappears.. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael recognizes his former lover on the stand, accused of a hideous crime.
Reality check	Abrahams	Mystery	690	After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
Revolutionary road	Yates	Adult fiction		The devastating effects of work, adultery, rebellion, and self-deception slowly destroy the once successful marriage of Frank and April Wheeler, a suburban American couple.
Shanghai girls	See	Historical fiction		Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, two sisters struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret.
Shiver	Stiefvater	Fantasy	740	In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Slaughter House Five	Vonnegut	Modern classic		A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden.
South of broad	Conroy	Adult fiction		After his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship.
Stitches	Small	Graphic novel		The author recounts his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.
What is the what	Eggers	Adult fiction		A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta.
Wintergirls	Anderson	YA fiction	730	Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.