Recommended 12th Grade Reading List

Looking for an 12th grade reading list? Here is a recommended reading list for you.

We found some poems and plays that are ideal for a high school student. They may just spark a love of great literature!

Whether you are looking to supplement your child’s learning or for a great summer reading list, simply click on the story link for a complete description and reviews from Amazon if you want to learn more.

Click on the story name link for a book description and reviews from Amazon if you want to learn more, or scroll further down to read previews of the books.

If you haven’t read them yet yourself, we bet that you will love reading them too!

Poems

• The Best American Poetry 2014 (The Best American Poetry series) by Doty
• The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
• You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys by Sharon Flake
• Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
• Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins
• SOLD by Patricia McCormick
• Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love by Pat Mora
• Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
• How I Discovered Poetry (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) by Marilyn Nelson
• A Fire in My Hands: A Book of Poems by Gary Soto

Previews

Plays

• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
• On the Razzle by Johann Nestroy and Tom Stoppard
• A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
• Hamlet (Signet Classics Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
• The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
• After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
• Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss

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