# 12th grade Children's books

**38** children's books commonly assigned to 12th grade students in US schools. Every title's grade range covers 12th grade, so each is grade-appropriate by curriculum placement. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Grade:** 12th grade  ·  **Genre:** Children's
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## 12th grade Children's reading list

- [A Face for Picasso](https://readinglist.school/book/a-face-for-picasso-coming-of-age-with-crouzon-syndrome) by Ariel Henley _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2021)_
- [A Hat Full of Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/a-hat-full-of-sky) by Terry Pratchett _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2010)_
- [Absurd Words](https://readinglist.school/book/absurd-words-a-kids-fun-and-hilarious-vocabulary-builder-for-future-word-nerds) by Tara Lazar _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2022)_
- [All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team](https://readinglist.school/book/all-thirteen-the-incredible-cave-rescue-of-the-thai-boys-soccer-team) by Christina Soontornvat _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2020)_
- [Beneath the Wide Silk Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/beneath-the-wide-silk-sky) by Emily Inouye Huey _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2022)_
- [Boots on the Ground](https://readinglist.school/book/boots-on-the-ground-americas-war-in-vietnam) by Elizabeth Partridge _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2018)_
- [City of Bones](https://readinglist.school/book/city-of-bones) by Cassandra Clare _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2013)_
- [Crazy](https://readinglist.school/book/crazy) by Han Nolan _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2010)_
- [Eva](https://readinglist.school/book/eva) by Peter Dickinson _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1989)_
- [Fat Kid Rules The World](https://readinglist.school/book/fat-kid-rules-the-world) by K L Going _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2011)_
- [Five Feet Apart](https://readinglist.school/book/five-feet-apart) by Rachael Lippincott _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2022)_
- [Four](https://readinglist.school/book/four) by Veronica Roth _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2014)_
- [Hope Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/hope-was-here) by Joan Bauer _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2005)_
- [Lovely War](https://readinglist.school/book/lovely-war) by Julie Berry _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2019)_
- [Mapping the Bones](https://readinglist.school/book/mapping-the-bones) by Jane Yolen _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2018)_
- [Nasty, Stinky Sneakers](https://readinglist.school/book/nasty-stinky-sneakers) by Eve Bunting _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1995)_
- [New Moon](https://readinglist.school/book/new-moon) by Stephenie Meyer _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2010)_
- [Peaches](https://readinglist.school/book/peaches) by Jodi Lynn Anderson _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2009)_
- [Red Queen](https://readinglist.school/book/red-queen) by Victoria Aveyard _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2015)_
- [Rewind](https://readinglist.school/book/rewind) by William Sleator _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1999)_
- [SOS Titanic](https://readinglist.school/book/sos-titanic) by Eve Bunting _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1996)_
- [Sex Education](https://readinglist.school/book/sex-education) by Jenny Davis _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1995)_
- [Shiver (Shiver, Book 1)](https://readinglist.school/book/shiver) by Maggie Stiefvater _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2009)_
- [The Blood Years](https://readinglist.school/book/the-blood-years) by Elana K. Arnold _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2023)_
- [The Blossom and the Firefly](https://readinglist.school/book/the-blossom-and-the-firefly) by Sherri L. Smith _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2020)_
- [The Boxes](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boxes) by William Sleator _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2000)_
- [The Face on the Milk Carton](https://readinglist.school/book/the-face-on-the-milk-carton) by Caroline B. Cooney _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2009)_
- [The Taking of Room 114](https://readinglist.school/book/the-taking-of-room-114) by Mel Glenn _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1997)_
- [The Twenty-One](https://readinglist.school/book/the-21-the-true-story-of-the-youth-who-sued-the-us-government-over-climate-chang) by Elizabeth Rusch _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2023)_
- [This Is What Happy Looks Like](https://readinglist.school/book/this-is-what-happy-looks-like) by Jennifer E. Smith _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2013)_
- [Three Dark Crowns](https://readinglist.school/book/three-dark-crowns) by Kendare Blake _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2016)_
- [Torpedoed](https://readinglist.school/book/torpedoed-the-true-story-of-the-world-war-ii-sinking-of-the-childrens-ship) by Deborah Heiligman _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2019)_
- [We Set the Dark on Fire](https://readinglist.school/book/we-set-the-dark-on-fire) by Tehlor Kay Mejia _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2019)_
- [What Girls Are Made Of](https://readinglist.school/book/what-girls-are-made-of) by Elana K. Arnold _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2017)_
- [When You Look Like Us](https://readinglist.school/book/when-you-look-like-us) by Pamela N. Harris _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2021)_
- [White Lies](https://readinglist.school/book/white-lies-how-the-south-lost-the-civil-war-then-rewrote-the-history) by Ann Bausum _(Grades 6–12 · pub 2025)_
- [Who Killed My Daughter?](https://readinglist.school/book/who-killed-my-daughter) by Lois Duncan _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2012)_
- [Wolf by the Ears](https://readinglist.school/book/wolf-by-the-ears) by Ann Rinaldi _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1993)_

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