Entering Grade 9

REALISTIC FICTION

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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
Justyce attends an elite private school but has begun to question the effect the school is having on his identity as a black American teenager. He feels caught between two worlds, and to process it he begins to write a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Speak
(you could read the novel or graphic novel version)
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda has been a social  outcast ever since she called the cops on an end of summer party, so she retreats into herself, but there is something bigger consuming her, and she needs to confront it.
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Twelve short stories that attempt to reconcile the relationship between the twelve different  storytellers' home country:Nigeria, with their new lives in the United States. 
Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits, mix tapes, X-Men comics and falling in love.  
Dear Evan Hansen
by Val Emmich
When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.
On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas
Bri is the daughter an underground hip hop legend who died when she was young. She has dreams of filling her father's shoes until she goes viral for all the wrong reasons.  
 Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Miles goes away to boarding school and falls for Alaska Young; funny, smart, & self destructive, Alaska leaves a wake of chaos behind her.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Charlie is a "wallflower"-- he observes his high school world from a distance-- until he meets some new friends that change the way he (and they) see things. 
How it Went Down                       
​by Kekla Magoon
A young, unarmed black man is shot and killed by a white man. This book cycles through each of the perspectives of everyone involved; and everyone's perception is different.
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Starr Carter lives in a rough urban neighborhood and attends a posh suburban private school. When her childhood friend is shot by a police officer in front of her, Starr must choose to choose to remain silent or speak out, and both have ramifications.
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