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Book List

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Title	Author	Read With Boys	Read With Girls	Genre
A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive	Dave Pelzer	✔	✔	Memoir
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	✔	✔	Classic
A Do Right Man	Omar Tyree	✔	✗	African American Interests
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	✗	✔	Classic
A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah	✔	✗	International
A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness	Dave Pelzer	✔	✗	Memoir
A Place to Stand	Jimmy Santiago	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	✔	✔	African American Interests
A Room on Lorelei Street	Mary E. Pearson	✗	✔	Young Adult
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	✗	✔	International
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian	Sherman Alexie	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Always Running	Luis Rodriguez	✔	✗	Memoir
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	✔	✗	Memoir
Animal Farm	George Orwell	✔	✔	Classic
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	✔	✔	Holocaust
Antony and Cleopatra (Folger's edition)	William Shakespeare	✗	✔ 2013	Shakespeare
Ask Me No Questions	Marina Budhos	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child	Elva Trevino	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Because of Romek	David Faber	✔	✗	Holocaust
Because of Winn Dixie	Kate DiCamillo	✔	✔	Children's Literature
Becoming Naomi Leon	Pam Munoz Ryan	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Black and White	Paul Volponi	✔	✗	African American Interests
Black Poets	Dudley Randall	✔	✔	Poetry
Bless Me, Ultima	Rudolfo Anaya	✔ 2013	✗	Young Adult
Bloods	Terry Wallace	✔	✗	African American Interests
Boy 21	Matthew Quick	✔ 2014, 2015	✗	TBD
Breathing Underwater	Alex Flinn	✔ 2013	✗	Young Adult
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis	✔	✔	Young Adult
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam	Tony Medina & Louis Reyes Rivera	✔	✗	Poetry
Buried Onions	Gary Soto	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Burro Genius	Victor Villasenor	✔ 2013	✗	Hispanic Interests
Cane River	Lolita Tademy	✗	✔	African American Interests
Cannery Row	John Steinbeck	✔	✗	Classic
Catching Fire	Suzanne Collins	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
Caucasia	Danzy Senna	✗	✔	African American Interests
Ceremony	Leslie Marmon	✔	✗	Native American Interests
Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul	Canfield et al.	✔	✗	Memoir
Children Of Willesden Lane	Mona Golabek Lee Cohen	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Chinese Cinderella	Adeline Yen Mah	✔	✔	Asian Interests
Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
City of the Beasts	Isabel Allende	✗	✔	Young Adult
City Of Veils	Zoe Ferraris	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Code Name Verity	Elizabeth Wein	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Collected Stories	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Cooked	Jeff Henderson	✔	✗	African American Interests
Cool Salsa - Bilingual Poetry	Lori Carlson	✔	✔	Poetry
Copper Sun	Sharon Draper	✗	✔	African American Interests
Daddy Was A Number Runner	Louise Meriwether	✗	✔	African American Interests
Daughter of Fortune	Isabel Allende	✗	✔	International
Divergent	Veronica Roth	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing	Bell Gale Chevigny, Helen Prejean	✔	✗	Memoir
Dope Sick	Walter Dean Myers	✔	✔	African American Interests
Dreams of Joy	Lisa See	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Edgar Allen Poe Collection	Edgar Allen Poe	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Eleanor & Park	Rainbow Rowell	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Eleanor's Story	Eleanor Garner	✗	✔	Holocaust
Emako Blue	Brenda Woods	✗	✔	African American Interests
Enrique's Journey	Sonia Nazario	✔ 2014, 2015	✔	Nonfiction
Esperanza Rising	Pam Munoz Ryan	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of the Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment	Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Finding Fish: A Memoir	Antwone Fisher	✔	✔	Memoir
Finding Nouf	Zoe Ferraris	✗	✔	International
Fiona's Private Pages	Jardin Robin Cruise	✔	✔	Children's Literature
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf	Ntozake Shange	✗	✔	African American Interests
Forged by Fire	Sharon Draper	✔	✗	African American Interests
Friday Night Lights	H.G. Bissinger	✔	✗	Memoir
Getting Out and Staying Out: A Black Man's Guide to Success After Prison	Demico Booth	✔	✗	Memoir
Ghost of Spirit Bear	Ben Mikaelsen	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Gimp	Mark Zupan	✔	✗	Memoir
Girl, Interrupted	Susanna Kaysen	✗	✔	Fiction
Girl In Translation	Jean Kwok	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires, Book 1)	Rachel Caine	✔	✗	Fantasy
Go Ask Alice	anonymous	✔	✔	Urban Literature
God on a Harley	Joan Brady	✔	✔	Fiction
Gone Baby Gone	Dennis Lehane	✔	✗	Fiction
Gulp	Mary Roach	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	✔ 2013, 2015	✔	Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J.K. Rowling	✔	✔	Fantasy
Hate List	Jennifer Brown	✗	✔	Young Adult
He Forgot to Say Goodbye	Benjamin Alire	✔ 2014	✗	Hispanic Interests
Heaven In High Gear	Joan Brady	✗	✔	Fiction
Hole in My Life	Jack Gantos	✔ 2013	✗	Memoir
Holes	Louis Sachar	✔	✔	Young Adult
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie Ford	✗	✔	Asian Interests
House of the Scorpion	Nancy Farmer	✔ 2013, 2015	✗	TBD
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents	Julia Alvarez	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Hunger Games	Dana Reinhardt	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	✔	✔	African American Interests
Imani All Mine	Connie Rose Porter	✗	✔	African American Interests
Into the Beautiful North	Luis Alberto Urrea	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Into The Free	Jon Krakauer	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Into the Wild	Walter Dean Meyer	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer	✔ 2013	✗	TBD
It Calls You Back	Luis Rodriguez	✔ 2013	✗	TBD
Jackson Heights Chronicles	Orlando Tobon	✔ 2013	✗	International
Jesse	Gary Soto	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Jesse Owens: Track and Field Legend	Judith Pinkerton Josephson	✔	✗	Memoir
Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Jubilee	Margaret Walker	✗	✔	African American Interests
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	✔ 2014	✔	Shakespeare
Just Say No! A Novel	Omar Tyree	✔	✗	African American Interests
King Lear - Folger Edition	William Shakespeare	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Last Night I Sang to the Monster	Benjamin Saenz	✔ 2013, 2015	✗	TBD
Let the Circle Be Unbroken	Mildred D. Taylor	✔	✔	African American Interests
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet	Mary E. Lyons	✗	✔	African American Interests
Life of Pi	Yann Martell	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Life in Prison	Stanley Tookie Williams	✔	✗	Memoir
Like Water For Chocolate	Laura Esquivel	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Listen up! (spoken word poetry)	Zoe Anglesey	✔	✗	Poetry
Lone Survivor	Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson	✔	✗	Memoir
Lord of Opium	Suzanne Collins	✔ 2014, 2015	✗	TBD
Macho	Victor Villasenor	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Make Lemonade	Virginia Euwer	✔	✔	African American Interests
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary	Walter Dean Myers	✔	✗	African American Interests
Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli	✔	✗	Young Adult
Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Memories of My Melancholy Whores	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story	Sister Souljah	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint	Brady Udall	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Miracle's Boys	Jacqueline Woodson	✔	✗	African American Interests
Monster	Walter Dean Myers	✔	✗	African American Interests
Monsters Unchained	Richard Lederer	✗ 2014	✔ 2014	TBD
Monstress	Lysley Tenorio	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Muchacho	Louanne Johnson	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Night	Elie Wiesel	✔ 2013	✗	Holocaust
Night Hoops	Carl Deuker	✔	✗	Young Adult
Nightjohn	Gary Paulsen	✗	✔	African American Interests
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	✔	✔	Classic
Old Yeller	Fred Gipson	✔	✔	Classic
On the Far Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George	✔	✗	Young Adult
Once Were Warriors	Alan Duff	✔	✗	International
One Hundred Best Loved Poems	Philip Smith	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
One Thousand White Women	Jim Fergus	✗	✔ 2015	Native American Interests
Othello	William Shakespeare	✔ 2013	✔	Shakespeare
Out of Nowhere	Ouida Sebestyen	✔	✗	Young Adult
Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	✔	✔	Historical Fiction
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town	Warren St. John	✔	✗	Nonfiction
Parrot in the Oven	Victor Martinez	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Passing	Nella Larson	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Pay it Forward	Catherine Ryan	✔	✔	Fiction
Peony in Love	Lisa See	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Piece of Cake	Cupcake Brown	✗	✔	African American Interests
Pocho	Jose Antonio Villarreal	✔	✗	Young Adult
Purple Hibiscus	Chimamanda Adichie	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Princess (Book 1)	Jean Sasson	✗	✔	International
Princess Sultana's Daughters (Book 2)	Jean Sasson	✗	✔	International
Pursuit of Happyness	Chris Gardner	✔	✗	African American Interests
Push	Sapphire	✗	✔	African American Interests
Queen Bees and Wannabes	Rosalind Wiseman	✗	✔	Memoir
Rash	Pete Hautman	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Rats Saw God	Rob Thomas	✔	✗	Young Adult
Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	✔	✔	African American Interests
Romeo and Juliet (Folger's edition)	William Shakespeare	✗	✔ 2014	Shakespeare
Romiette and Julio	Sharon Draper	✗	✔	Young Adult
Rosa Parks: My Story	Rosa Parks	✗	✔	Memoir
Run For Your Life	Marilyn Levy	✗	✔	Young Adult
Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay	✗	✔	Holocaust
Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Schindler's List	Thomas Keneally	✔	✗	Holocaust
Selected Poetry of Langston Hughes	Langston Hughes	✔	✔	Poetry
Shadow Spinner	Susan Fletcher	✔	✔	Children's Literature
Shanghai Girls	Lisa See	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Silver Sparrow	Tayari Jones	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Sky of Red Poppies	Zohreh	✗	✔	International
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	✗	✔	Asian Interests
Sold	Patricia McCormick	✗	✔	International
Songs of Willow Frost	Jamie Ford	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
Sounder	William H. Armstrong	✔	✔	African American Interests
Stiff	Mary Roach	✔ 2015	✔ 2014	TBD
Stowaway	Karen Hesse	✔	✔	Children's Literature
Sunrise Over Fallujah	Walter Dean Meyer	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
Tattoo	Chris McKinney	✔	✗	Young Adult
Tears for Water	Alicia Keyes	✗	✔	Poetry
Tears of a Tiger	Sharon Draper	✔	✗	African American Interests
Tell No One	Harlan Coben	✔	✗	Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian	Sherman Alexie	✔ 2013	✗	Native American Interests
The Afterlife	Gary Soto	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
The Andromeda Strain	Michael Crichton	✔	✗	Science Fiction
The Beautiful Things Heaven Bears	Dinaw Mengestu	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	✗	✔	African American Interests
The Boat	Nam Le	✔	✗	Asian Interests
The Boleyn Inheritance	Philippa Gregory	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success	Sylvia Mendoza	✗	✔	Hispanic Interests
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	✔	✔	Holocaust
The Box Children	Sharon Wyse	✗	✔	Young Adult
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas	John Boyne	✔	✗	Holocaust
The Brothers Torres	Coert Voorhees	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
The Cage	Ruth Minsky Sender	✔	✔	Holocaust
The Center of Everything	Laura Moriarty	✗	✔	Children's Literature
The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: a Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival	Mona Golabek	✗	✔	Holocaust
The Color of Water	James McBride	✔	✔	African American Interests
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	✔	✔	African American Interests
The Concrete River Poetry	Luis Rodriguez	✔	✗	Poetry
The Constant Princess	Philippa Gregory	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Contender	Robert Lipsyte	✔	✗	Young Adult
The Devil's Highway	Luis Alberto Urrea	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
The Dress Lodger	Sheri Holman	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Essential Neruda	Mark Eisner, Editor	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
The First Part Last	Angela Johnson	✔	✔	African American Interests
The Freedom Writers Diary	Erin Gruwell	✔	✔	Memoir
The Gangster We Are All Looking For	Le Thi Diem Thuy	✗	✔	Asian Interests
The Giver	Lois Lowry	✔	✔	Children's Literature
The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls	✗	✔	Memoir
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	✗	✔	Asian Interests
The Green Mile	Stephen King	✔	✗	Science Fiction
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	✗	✔	African American Interests
The History of Home-poetry, prose	Leroy V. Quintana	✔	✗	Poetry
The House of the Scorpion	Nancy Farmer	✔	✗	Science Fiction
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	✔	✔	Hispanic Interests
The Hunger Games (Book 1)	Suzanne Collins	✔ 2013	✗	Science Fiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
The Innocent	Harlan Coben	✔	✗	Fiction
The Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	✗	✔	International
The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan	✗	✔	Asian Interests
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	✔	✗	International
The Long Fall	Walter Mosley	✔	✗	African American Interests
The Lord of Opium	Nancy Farmer	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family	Dave Pelzer	✔	✔	Memoir
The Midwife's Apprentice	Karen Cushman	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Moon Daughter	Zohreh K. Ghahremani	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	✗	✔	International
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	✔	✗	Classic
The Other Boleyn Girl	Philippa Gregory	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Other Queen	Philippa Gregory	✗	✔	Historical Fiction
The Other Wes Moore	Wes Moore	✔ 2013, 2015	✗	Memoir
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton	✔	✗	Classic
The Pact	S. Davis, G. Jenkins, R. Hunt	✔	✗	African American Interests
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker – Modern Library Edition	Dorothy Parker	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
The Practice Effect	David Brin	✔	✗	Science Fiction
The Preacher's Son	Carl Weber	✔	✗	African American Interests
The Red Tent	Anita Diamant	✗	✔	International
The Republic of East L.A.: Stories	Luis Rodriguez	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
The Road from Coorain	Jill Ker Conway	✗	✔	International
The Rock and the River	Kekla Magoon	✔	✗	African American Interests
The Rose that Grew from Concrete	Tupac Shakur	✔	✔	Poetry
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	✔	✔	Classic
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood	Ann Brashares	✗	✔	Young Adult
The Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd	✗	✔	African American Interests
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	Ann Brashares	✗	✔	Young Adult
The Taming of the Shrew (Folger's edition)	William Shakespeare	✗	✔	Shakespeare
The Things a Brother Knows	Dana Reinhardt	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
The Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien	✔	✗	Fiction
The Wave: The Classroom Experiment That Went Too Far	Todd Strasser	✔	✗	Holocaust
The Wedding	Dorothy West	✗	✔	African American Interests
The Woman Warrior	Maxine Hong Kingston	✗	✔	Asian Interests
The World is Mine (Come Up (Quality) series)	Lyah B. LeFlore	✔	✗	African American Interests
The Zookeeper's Wife	Diane Ackerman	✗	✔	Holocaust
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	✗	✔	African American Interests
There Are No Children Here	Alex Kotlowitz	✔	✗	Memoir
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky	Judy Bernstein	✔	✔	International
They Tell Me of a Home	Daniel Black	✔	✗	African American Interests
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
Three Cups of Tea	Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin	✗	✔	International
To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	✔ 2013	✔	Classic
Touching Spirit Bear	Ben Mikaelsen	✔ 2014	✗	Native American Interests
Towelhead	Alicia Erian	✗	✔	International
True Believer	Virginia Euwer	✗	✔	African American Interests
True Grit	Charles Portis	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbit	✔	✔	Fantasy
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines	Nic Sheff	✔	✗	Memoir
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	✗	✔	Fantasy
Tyrell	Coe Booth	✔ 2014	✗	African American Interests
Under the Mesquite	Guadalupe Garcia McCall	✗	✔ 2013	TBD
Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech	✔	✔	Children's Literature
Walking Stars	Victor Villasenor	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Water: A Novel	Bapsi Sidhwa	✗	✔	International
We Were Here	Matt de la Pena	✔ 2014	✗	Hispanic Interests
What It Takes to Get to Vegas	Yxta Maya Murray	✔	✔	Urban Literature
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day	Pearl Cleage	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
What Jamie Saw	Carolyn Coman	✔	✗	Young Adult
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places	Le Ly Hayslip	✗	✔	Asian Interests
When I Was Puerto Rican	Esmeralda Santiago	✗	✔ 2014	TBD
When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune	Lori Aurelia	✗	✔	African American Interests
Where the Heart Is	Billie Letts	✗	✔	Fiction
Whistling Past The Graveyard	Susan Crandall	✗	✔ 2015	TBD
White Cat	Holly Black	✔ 2015	✗	TBD
White Oleander	Janet Fitch	✗	✔	Fiction
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives	Sharon G. Flake	✗	✔	Young Adult
Why You Crying? My Long, Hard Look at Life, Love, and Laughter	George Lopez	✔	✗	Hispanic Interests
Winds of Change	Tomas Gayton	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Yazoo City Blues	Tomas Gayton	✔ 2014	✗	TBD
Yellow Raft on Blue Water	Michael Dorris	✗	✔	Native American Interests
Zlata's Diary	Zlata Filipovic	✗	✔	International

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