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This School Year's Best-Selling Books for Grades 9-12

Your students will appreciate these riveting best-sellers with compelling characters and engaging plots.

 

By Scholastic Editors
December 10, 2024

Students from grades 9-12 engage in captivating stories with complex characters and strong plots. This list of best-selling books will prompt stimulating discussions. Themes like the refugee crisis and self-identity will teach your student about themselves and the world around them. 

Try Sunshine, a touching story of author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka, who attended a camp as a counselor for sick children and their families when he was in high school. Anticipating an emotionally challenging time, Jarrett instead discovers that Camp Sunshine is instead full of hope and determination, something that winds up rippling through Jarrett's own life. 

Meanwhile, The Library of Broken Worlds introduces a world full of magic to fantasy fans. As the daughter of a library god, Frieda has spent her whole life roaming its ever-shifting tunnels and communicating with gods. But when Frieda meets Joshua and Nergui, she is determined to help them save their people. But in order to do so, Frieda must venture deeper into the library than she'd ever imagined, all the while confronting atrocities from the past and the truth of her own origins. 

Use these unforgettable stories to guide classroom discussions about truth, history, human nature, and the power of friendship. These novels will help your students appreciate powerful stories with good messages. 

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Hatchet

Grades 6 - 12
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A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.