Girl, reading is FUNdamental!
A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from people is to put it in a book." We now have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of the fight for freedom... but few read consistently, if at all.
Taken from Garrett Sawyer, Pride Magazine
It's time to put down the phone and pick up a book!​ Take a look at some great recommendations below.
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Type of book
Historical Fiction/Black stories
Age
11+
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Type of book
Fictional
Age
11+
A Break with Charity: A Story About the Salem Witch Trials
Ann Rinaldi
Type of book
Historical Fiction
Age
11+
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
The Giver
Lowis Lowry
Type of book
Science Fiction
Age
12+
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Type of book
Fiction
Age
8 - 12
No Promises in the Wind
Irene Hunt
Type of book
Fiction
Age
10 to 14
Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
The Watsons Go To Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
Type of book
Historical Fiction/Black stories
Age
10 to 14
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Virginia Hamilton
Type of book
Folk Tales/Black Stories
Age
11 to 13
Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brash
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
The Princess Diaries
Meg Cabot
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
If You Come Softly
Jacqueline Woodson
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
Type of book
Fiction/Folk/Fairytale
Age
11+
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead Georfe
Type of book
Fiction
Age
9 to 13
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L'Engle
Type of book
Fiction/Folk/Fairytale
Age
9 to 13
Holes
Louis Sachar
Type of book
Fiction/Fantasy
Age
9 to 13
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Type of book
Autobiography/History
Age
11+
Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Type of book
Fantasy
Age
9 to 13
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Type of book
Fiction/Fantasy
Age
9 to 13
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11 +
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Suzanne Collins
Type of book
Science Fiction/Young Adult
Age
11+
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Type of book
Nonfiction
Age
11+
Divergent Series
Veronica Roth
Type of book
Science Fiction/Young Adult
Age
11+
One of Us is Lying
Karen McManus
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
If I Stay
Gayle Forman
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
Dear Martin
Nic Stone
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini
Type of book
Fiction
Age
13+
The Selection
Kiera Cass
Type of book
Fiction
Age
13 to 16
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Type of book
Historical Fiction
Age
11+
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Just Listen
Sarah Dessen
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
Long Way Down
Nicola Yoon
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
Type of book
Fiction
Age
11+
Tears of a Tiger (Hazelwood High Series)
Sharon M. Draper
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
America
E.R. Frank
Type of book
Fiction
Age
13+
Life is Funny
E.R. Frank
Type of book
Fiction
Age
13+
Breath Eyes Memory
Edwidge Danticat
Type of book
Autobiography/Nonfiction
Age
12+
When I was Puerto Rican
Esmerelda Santiago
Type of book
Autobiography/Nonfiction
Age
12+
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Type of book
Biography/Nonfiction
Age
11+
Cousins
Virginia Hamilton
Type of book
Fiction
Age
8 to 12
All-American Girl
Meg Cabot
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Type of book
Fiction
Age
12+
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