Reading Olympics for Teens

2022 Middle School Reading Olympics Booklist

• Ali Cross- Jame Patterson
• As Brave as You- Jason Reynolds
• Bad Island- Doug TeNapel
• December Stillness- Mary Downing Hahn
• Echo- Pam Munoz Ryan
• Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini- Sid Fleischman
• Fever 1793- Laurie Halse Anderson
• Free Lunch- Rex Ogle 
• I Will Always Write Back- Caitlin Aifirenka & Martin Ganda
• Inside Out and Back Again- Thanhha Lai
• Notes from a Midnight Driver- Jordan Sonnenblick
• Notorious Benedict Arnold- Steven Sheinkin
• Pineeas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science- John Fleischman
• Reaching the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson- Katherine Johnson
• Soar- Joan Bauer
• Starfish- Lisa Fipps
• Stella by Starlight- Sharon M. Draper
• The Boys Who Challenged Hitler- Philip Hoose
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon- Kelly Barnhill
• The Stars Beneath Our Feet- David Barclay Moore
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster- Deborah Hopkinson
• Virals- Kathy Reichs
• When Stars are Scattered- Veronica Jamieson
• When You Trap a Tiger- Tae Keller
• White Bird, a Wonder Story- R.J. Palacio

2022 High School Reading Olympics Booklist

• An Ember in the Ashes- Sabaa Tahir
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood- Trevor Noah
• Boy 21- Matthew Quick
• Cinder- Marissa Meyer
• Clap When You Land- Elizabeth Acevedo
• Cuba 15- Nancy Osa
• Dawn- Elie Wiesel
• Dry- Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
• Fat Kids Rule the World- K.L.Going
• Highly Illogical Behavior- John Corey Whaley
• Home is Not a Country- Safia Elhillo
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban- Malala Yousafzai
• If I Was Your Girl- Meredith Russo
• If You Come Softly- Jacqueline Woodson
• Level Up- Gene Luen Yang
• Lies We Tell Ourselves- Robin Talley
• March: Book One- John Lewis
• Punching the Air- Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
• Scythe- Neal Shusterman
• The Hate You Give- Angie Thomas
• The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir- Gaby Rodriguez
• The Serpent King- Jeff Zentner
• The Sun is Also a Star- Nicola Yoon
• Trashed: An Ode to the Crap Job of All Crap Jobs- Derf
• We are Not Free- Traci Chee

For the elementary school reading list, go to Reading Olympics for Children.

Learn more about the Reading Olympics program.