Reading List: Young Adult Mystery & Suspense

MYSTERY
The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories series (190 books, 1927 - 2005) - Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym for multiple ghost authors)
Harriet the Spy (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh
Paper Towns (2008) - John Green
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series (175 boos, 1930 - 2003) - Carolyn Keene (pseudonymn for multiple ghost authors)
A Series of Unfortunate Events series (13 books, 1999 - 2006) - Lemony Snicket
Encyclopedia Brown series (26 books, 1963 - 2009) - Donald J. Sobol

SUSPENSE
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973) - Lois Lowry
Killing Mr. Griffin (1978) - Lois Lowry
Summer of Fear (1976) - Lois Lowry
Remember Me (1989) - Christopher Pike
Fear Street series (117 books, 1989 - 2005) - R.L. Stein

Reading List: Young Adult Contemporary Fiction

CONTEMPORARY NOVELS (Set after 1959)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) - Sherman Alexie
Speak (2001) - Laurie Halse Anderson
Burger Wuss (1999) - M.T. Anderson
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret (1970) - Judy Blume
Forever (1976) - Judy Blume
Superfudge (1980) - Judy Blume
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (4 books, 2001 - 2007) - Ann Brashares
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) - Stephen Chbosky
The House on Mango Street (1984) - Sandra Cisneros
*The Ramona series (1955-1999) - Beverly Cleary
*Walk Two Moons (1995) - Sharon Creech
Just Listen (2006) - Sarah Dessen
*My Side of the Mountain (1960) - Jean Craighead George
Looking for Alaska (2005) - John Green
The Outsiders (1967) - S.E. Hinton
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (4+ books, 2007 - ?) - Jeff Kinney
*From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968) - E.L. Konigsburg
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee
Monster (1999) - Walter Dean Myers
*The Black Pearl (1968) - Scott O'Dell
Bridge to Terabithia (1978) - Katherine Paterson
*The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979) - Katherine Paterson
*Jacob Have I Loved (1980) - Katherine Paterson
*Hatchett (1988) - Gary Paulsen
*The Westing Game (1978) - Ellen Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows (1961) - Wilson Rawls
*Holes (1999) - Louis Sachar
Maniac McGee (1990) - Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl (2000) - Jerry Spinelli
*Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) / Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981) - Mildred D. Taylor
Homecoming (1981) / *Dicey's Song (1982) / A Solitary Blue (1983) - Cynthia Voigt
Izzy, Willy-Nilly (1986) - Cynthia Voigt
The Book Thief (2006) - Marcus Zusack

Reading List: Young Adult Animal Novels

ANIMAL NOVELS
Watership Down (1972) - Richard Adams
*Sounder (1970) - William H. Armstrong
*Mr. Popper's Penguins (1939) - Richard and Florence Atwater
Paddington Bear series (1958 - 2008) - Michael Bond
The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) - Beverly Cleary
*Because of Winn-Dixie (2001) - Kate DiCamillo
The Magician's Elephant (2009) - Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Desperaux (2003) - Kate DiCamillo
The Tiger Rising (2001) - Kate DiCamillo
*Old Yeller (1957) - Fred Gipson
The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Kenneth Grahame
Redwall series (20+ books, 1987 - ?) - Brian Jacques
*Hoot (2003) - Carl Hiaasen
*Rabbit Hill (1945) - Robert Lawson
*The Dr. Dolittle books (12 books, 1920-1952) - Hugh Lofting
The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London
White Fang (1906) – Jack London
*Shiloh (1992) - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
*Rascal (1964) - Sterling North
*Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH (1972) - Robert C. O'Brien
*Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) - Scott O'Dell
My Friend Flicka (1941) / Thunderhead (1943) / Green Grass of Wyoming (1946) - Mary O'Hara
*The Cricket in Times Square (1961) - George Selden
Black Beauty (1877) - Anna Sewell
*Charlotte’s Web (1953) - E.B. White
Stuart Little (1945) - E.B. White
Trumpet of the Swan (1970) - E.B. White