Here is our Master list for 11th Grade, please feel free to comment which books you used with your children and which they enjoyed. Many should be used for SAT and ACT as well. Here is the Printable list.
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America by James M. Deem
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America by Russell Freedman
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
We Turned Back to See Where Where We Came From – Snapshots, Vignettes, and Stories by the Students of Greater Egleston High School by Daniel Boston
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II by Martin W. Sandler
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright
Mystery & Suspense
Kissed by an Angel: Kissed by an Angel; The Power of Love; Soulmates by Elizabeth Chandler
The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
The Face on the Milk Carton (The Face on the Milk Carton Series) by Caroline B. Cooney
Croak (Croak (Quality)) by Gina Damico
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Burning Blue by Paul Griffin
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Bel Canto (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Ann Patchett
The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1) by James Patterson
Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn
