Summer Reading 2018 BCS: Upper Grades Reading List

In the fall of 2013, on a bus ride home, a young man sets another student on fire.

A new era begins for the Black Panther! Follow Ta-Nehisi Coates' epic series and the legacy of the great nation, Wakanda.

The host of The Daily Show reflects on his tumultuous South African childhood. By turns, alarming, sad, and hilarious.

A Cuban-American girl comes of age in Flushing, Queens, in 1977, against the backdrop of the Son of Sam murder spree.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s a Fractional Persian—half, his mom’s side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life.

A classic zombie novel that takes the genre up a notch with a deft exploration of racial oppression in an alternative Reconstruction-era America.

After the death of her dutiful older sister, Olga, Julia must deal with grieving parents and the discovery that her sister was keeping secrets.

Seventeen-year-old Afro-Boricua Emoni Santiago hones her gift for cooking and makes important decisions about her future.

A talented overachiever resorts to lessons gleaned from Korean pop culture in hopes of finding love.

A moving, humanizing portrait of the collateral damage caused by America's immigration policy.

Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them

This honest and unflinching story of toil, tears, and triumph is a musical love letter that proves literary lightning does indeed strike twice.

Cupertino, California, high school senior Danny Cheng has a tight circle of friends, adoring parents, and a full scholarship to his dream school, the Rhode Island School of Design. But lurking just beneath the surface are secrets and tensions that threaten to tear apart everything he holds dear.

Two teens train to be society-sanctioned killers in an otherwise immortal world.

Tommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize.