Top 10 Trending Books For 9th Graders

Featuring Romeo & Juliet, Looking for Alaska, and Enders Game! For other grades, be sure to check out what kids are reading.

1. Paper Towns (John Green)

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One month before graduating from high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until his beautiful and exciting classmate, Margo Roth Spiegelman, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

2. Legend (Marie Lu)

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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover they have a common enemy. The plot contains graphic violence.

3. City of Fallen Angels (Cassandra Clare)

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As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.

4. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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Set in the 1920s, this is the tragic love story of Jay Gatsby, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire, obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman, Daisy Buchanan.

5. City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)

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Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, where she uncovers important truths about her family's past.

6. Looking for Alaska (John Green)

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Sixteen-year-old Miles's first year at a prep school includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and alcohol use.

7. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.

8. Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Todd Burpo)

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Todd Burpo shares his son's visions of heaven after a near-fatal illness, describing what Colton saw and learned about faith and love after listening to Colton's stories of his time with Jesus. The coauthor is Lynn Vincent.

9. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

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In this futuristic novel, the main character struggles with excessive controls on individual liberty, especially the banning and burning of books.

10. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)

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This a tragic play where two star-crossed teenagers take their lives for the name of love.