YA Book Council discussion

Okay, so I'm going to be doing book talks as a way to transition from self-selected reading to instruction. These are some of the ones I'd like to recommend to my students (high school, fairly reluctant, often struggling), but I'd love to have some other titles in my list - especially nonfiction.

Bloody Jack, Louis Meyer
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Need, Carrie Jones
Squire's Tale, Gerald Morris
Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
Poison Study, Maria Snyder
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Unwind, Neal Shusterman
Chance Fortune, Shane Berryhill
Graceling, Kristin Cashore
Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
Epic, Conor Kostick
Airhead, Meg Cabot
The Underneath, Kathi Appelt
Stiff, Mary Roach
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Naked Economics, Greg Mankiw
Under the Black Flag, David Cordingly

Suggestions?

I recommend Close to Shore. It's a true story of shark attacks at the Jersey Shore. Feel free to take a look at my video booktalk.