High School Research

Books for the College Bound

For lists of “must read” books categorized according to subject, click here.

Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award List for Young Adults

Read three of these outstanding books, then vote for your favorite in March.

A gala event will be held in the library in May when the state announces the winner. Here’s the link if you want to nominate any great book you read with a publication date within the last three years written by an American author.

https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/2019-20-nominated-titles

Here is the list of books:

Young Adult

Acevedo, Elizabeth    The Poet X

Adeyemi, Tomi    Children of Blood and Bone                                                                Ahmed, Samira    Love, Hate & Other Filters

Anderson, Laurie Halse    Speak: The Graphic Novel

Goo, Maurene      The Way You Make Me Feel                                                                 Johnson, Maureen   Truly Devious

Khorram, Adib        Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Kiely, Brendan    Tradition

Krosoczka, Jarrett J.       Hey, Kiddo                                                                            Murphy, Julie    Puddin’

Ribay, Randy       After the Shot Drops

Saedi, Sara          Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

Shusterman, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman       Dry

Stevenson, Bryan      Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults                                            Watson, Renee           Piecing Me Together

Destiny Discover

Go to the school catalog here (https://philasd.follettdestiny.com) to get valuable bibliographies on a variety of topics.   Go to the catalog tab and click Destiny Discover from the right-hand sidebar.