Kids' Reading List: 12 Years and Up

Try these new and classic books to keep your 12-year-olds and teenagers interested in reading.
After Tupac and D Foster
By Jacqueline Woodson*
The powerful and sustaining bonds of friendship, family and community are explored in this story of three 11-year-old girls living in a close-knit African-American neighborhood in Queens, New York, as they experience various changes in their lives as they move from childhood to adolescence.
Putnam, 2008. ISBN: 9780399246548
* 2009 list addition