Looking for a fun engaging read to try to get high school students to love reading and not dread it. We want to change the way summer reading has worked and make it fun (events instead of assignments). The district has come up with a list of criteria. Any recommendations that fit the following would be amazing:
-appropriate for students as young as 14
-has literary merit
-can be read (and understood) independently
-length of 100-300 pages (right around 200 ideal)
-no descriptions of sex
-no or low profanity
-no or low violence
It can be classic or contemporary, fiction or nonfiction
by book_inch_worm
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I bet they’d love The Unknown by J.W. Lynne. It’s about 8 kids (age 9 to 17) who are kidnapped and wake up trapped together in a mysterious prison. Over the course of the book, the kids try to figure out why they were kidnapped. It is an easy read, has short suspenseful chapters, relatable characters, thought-provoking subject matter, and cool twists and turns that make the book hard for even reluctant readers to put down.