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CRRL Teens: Good Reads for 11th & 12th Grade, 2024-2025

A carefully curated, librarian-made booklist tailored for 11th and 12th grade.

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  • Accountable

    the True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

    Slater, Dashka
    A page-turning true story of the fallout in one California community following the discovery of a bigoted Instagram account run by a local high school student.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2023. — 371.829 Sl
  • In this dark academia paranormal mystery, first-generation college student and aspiring author Tara is offered a spot in the elite but eerie Magni Viri academic society. Tara’s golden opportunity soon becomes a prison, and she finds herself living a…
    Book, 2023New York : Harperteen, [2023] — FICTION Wat
  • When a world-destroying comet arrives early, the only survivors who make it onto the spaceship to escape are the children of world leaders. Will these teens be able to navigate an unprepared spaceship to a potentially viable planet many light years…
    Book, 2022Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2022. — FICTION Red
  • In the midst of the Syrian Revolution, a volunteer nurse is torn between fleeing with her pregnant sister-in-law before the violence claims their lives and staying for a budding romance with an aspiring filmmaker determined to document the…
    Book, 2022New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — FICTION Kat
  • Murder. Mayhem. Madness. Magic. A long-lost heir of a murdered House, a mad prince, and a little brother trying to keep everything together. Will they achieve peace, or will they will they tear their world apart?
    Book, 2023New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — FICTION Gra
  • In 1910 Chicago, the young members of a wealthy African American family discover how to follow their own dreams and passions, even when what they want is in conflict with what is expected of them.
    Book, 2023New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2023. — FICTION Mar
  • Despite living in the magical town of Wellie, Sid feels like the most average and unremarkable girl there is. But, when one of the gates holding back magic is opened and havoc is released, Sid becomes tasked with saving everyone.
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024. — FICTION Was
  • In an alternate universe where dinosaurs were brought back from the brink of extinction, a rookie dino-keeper starts a new job at a failing dinopark.
    Graphic Novel, 2022[Los Angeles] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2022] — 741.5952 Ki
  • Six students attempting to go home on break are the victims of portal travel gone wrong. Catapulted into the untamed forest days away from home, the five students who survived the trip must fight their way home against incredible odds.
    Book, 2023New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2023] — FICTION Rei
  • This heart-wrenching contemporary retelling of Of Mice and Men follows Georgia Kim and her brother Leo as they start at a new school that they hope will be better able to accommodate Leo's developmental disability.
    Book, 2023Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2023. — FICTION Lee
  • Deborah, a Korean American teen growing up in a New Jersey suburb with dreams of being an artist, uses intricate illustrations to show her mental health struggles and her journey to understanding.
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — 921 Lee
  • Clementine Chang thinks she has seized the opportunity of a lifetime when she moves to Mars for an internship with her hero and pioneer of AI technology, Dr. Lin. However, she quickly realizes that all is not as it seems.
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — 741.5973 Xu
  • Four girls enter; three girls leave. What would you be willing to risk if it meant your deepest wish comes true?
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — FICTION Boo
  • Dreamers are seers who have the ability to look beyond reality. Indir and Saya are highly unusual seers living vastly different lives. Both, however, are in serious danger. Will their powers be their salvation, or will they be their destruction?
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022. — FICTION Hue
  • Despite putting off college to work and make ends meet, Zahra dreams of becoming a writer. Zahra’s mother thinks that she has found Zahra’s financial solution by matching her with a wealthy boy named Harun. What will Zahra choose?
    Book, 2023New York : Salaam Reads, [2023] — FICTION Tas
  • Ambitious high school senior Dani Ford refuses to let anything or anyone derail her plan to move to NYC and become an author, but that won't stop Prince Jones, a romantic aspiring DJ, from trying!
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster, [2022] — FICTION LaD
  • Paranormal creatures abound in this haunting collection of stories that follows one Cherokee family across generations, starting with a gruesome encounter with a vampire in 1839 and ending with a zombie apocalypse in 2039.
    Book, 2022Montclair : Levine Querido, [2022] — FICTION Rog
  • Twenty years after Clarissa Campbell goes missing, teens Blair and Cameron attempt to solve her murder via a true crime podcast for their journalism assignment. What secrets will they uncover?
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — FICTION Jon
  • Money Out Loud

    All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us

    Anat, Berna
    Berna Anat, aka the Financial Hype Woman, was taught by her parents and her community that it was rude to talk about money. In this hilarious illustrated guide to money, she wants to talk. A lot and out loud and to everyone.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, [2023] — 332.4 An
  • Murtagh and his bonded dragon Thorn live as trauma-filled outcasts, loathed by all. However, when a new threat to Alagaesia surfaces, Murtagh and Thorn must fight to save the world that despises them. Will they be up to the challenge?
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — FICTION Pao