This HelMet English Reading Diploma is for 7-9 grade students.
When you have read ten (10) books, you get a diploma. You can select books from this list or select books that are interesting to you that are not found on this list. All the books you read can be used for the Reading Diploma. You can also ask a librarian for ideas.
You can also read audiobooks.
This poetry anthology provides poems to comfort, uplift, and delight.
A book about basketball, family, and staying true to yourself.
“This book is filled with the accidents, serendipities, bloodlines, tidal waves, sunrises, disasters, passport stamps, criminals, cafeterias, nightmares, fever dreams, readers, portents, and whispers that have shaped me so far.”
An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at once.
Stories, poetry, and art on the theme of pride.
Who needs a handsome prince? Not these girls!
A beautiful retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
This is an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger. Discover your power. Find the words.
The story of a princess turned damsel turned queen.
You may choose between one of these three collections.
Brave, bold and beautiful poems written by women.
Witchcraft, superstition, murder - it's all here!
A thrilling underwater adventure in the spirit of Jules Verne.
They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. NOW WE RISE.
The Reds are commoners, ruled by the elite of Silvers, who possess supernatural powers. Mare Barrow is a young Red girl who ends up working in a Silver palace. But there's more to Mare than meets the eye...
Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams - but he can't pull it off alone: he must assemble a crew.
When Peter puts the lake-bound sanctuary of Wranglestone in danger by allowing a stranger to come ashore, he's forced to leave and help rancher Cooper herd the dead from their shores. But as love blossoms, a dark discovery reveals the sanctuary's secret past.
A young witch, groomed to steal souls for an immortal king, meets the reckless, rebellious boy to whom her fate is tied.
Violet Choudry is one of the few brown students in a small Illinois town – and she also happens to see ghosts.
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home.
Two sisters. One crown.
Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems...
A princess, a traitor, a soldier, a hunter and a thief. Follow the journey of five teenagers with the fate of the world in their hands.
An alternate history set in the 19th century U.S.A. The Civil War ends when zombies emerge from their graves. The enslaved are freed, but Black and Indigenous children are trained to fight the undead and protect the nation.
In Nova City, there are extraordinary people, capable of feats that defy the imagination. After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City's mightiest hero (and Nick's biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary.
No one speaks about the grace year. It's forbidden.
Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.
Mikey is just an ordinary guy that isn’t supposed ti fight zombies or whatever the heck this new this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?
A century ago, scientists theorised that a habitable planet existed in a nearby solar system. Today, ten astronauts will leave a dying Earth to find it.
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.
Elisabeth has been raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, surrounded by magical books. When a dangerous book is released from the library, Elisabeth needs to seek alliance with a young sorcerer Nathaniel Thorne.
Life is not easy for the most powerful magician in history.
Two boys, alone in space.
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of the epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care.
Maresi lives in the Red Abbey on an island inhabited solely by women. But there are forces that wish to destroy their utopia.
When both her parents die, Grace has to enter a boarding school. But the moment she sets her foot inside the school, Grace realizes there's nothing normal about Katmere Academy.
A collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid!
A collection of stories by six Black YA writers. When a heatwave plunges New York City into darkness, sparks fly for thirteen teenagers caught up in the blackout.
Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Simon is sixteen and trying to work out his sexual identity. When one of his emails gets into the wrong hands, things get complicated.
Meet Ben and Arthur. Ben is a battered dreamer who's shipping his ex-boyfriend's things back to him. Arthur is new to New York and struggling to fit in.
Avery's life changes when she inherits an eccentric billionaire.
Felix Love has never been in love--and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone.
As the King of England’s illegitimate daughter, Evan Bright knows a thing or two about keeping secrets. After a fun night turns deadly, Evan needs to clear her name but can she trust anyone at the palace?
Grace and Tippi are conjoined twins. When they have to quit homeschooling and move to a real school, their lives will change for good.
Jana is an ordinary girl from a south London estate, lifted to unimaginable heights. But the further you rise, the more devastating your fall.
When Alice's troubled friend Bunny goes missing, she becomes obsessed with finding her. She discovers a mysterious invitation to 'Wonderland': the party to end all parties - three days of hedonistic excess to which only the elite are welcome. Will she find Bunny there? Or is this really a case of finding herself?
Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One day, her secret letters are mailed, and Lara's love life gets all over the place!
Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure.
Nishat and Flávia are rivals at school, but Nishat can't help the secret crush burning in her heart - even though her parents disapprove of the fact she likes girls. Can she possibly find her happy ever after?
Izumi is just another Japanese-American teenage girl... until she discovers that her father is the crown prince of Japan!
Liz considers herself too black, too poor and too awkward to attend prom, but when she realizes being a prom queen might give her a college scholarship, she will give it a try!
Shirin moves to a high school. It's 2002, a year after 9/11, and life is not easy for a muslim girl wearing hijab.
Meet Mila. Sixteen years old, an ordinary LA girl... except for her A-list actor dad. When Mila's antics make headlines, something must be done. She is dispatched to small-town Tennessee to cool off.
Vivian is fed up with everyday sexism in her school and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates.
The Washingtons have ruled America for almost 250 years. They're gorgeous, fiercely famous and the beating heart of the most glorious royal court in the world. But behind the glittering ballrooms, elegant gowns, and seemingly perfect public personas lie forbidden romances and scandalous secrets.
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.
Anna's father decides to send her all the way to Paris - 4383 miles away from her home. On her own.
YA Eleanor is the new girl and she couldn't stick out more. Park is the quiet boy and thinks he's made himself invisible. But slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever growing stack of mix tapes, they fall for each other.
A tale of fanfiction, family, and first love.
Noah, a cello prodigy, wants to stick to tradition. Daisy, a fiercely independent disabled violinist, is used to fighting for what she wants and likes to take risks. But the two surprise each other when they play. After their performance goes viral, the rest of the country falls for them just as surely as they're falling for each other.
17-year-old Emoni lives together with her small child and her grandmother. Her greatest passion is cooking, but it's not always easy to pursue one's dreams as a single mother.
A tale of two sisters who find out about each other's existence when their father dies.
You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
When 16-year-old Gracie gives up her baby for adoption, she decides to find out more about her biological mother. In the process, she discovers that she actually has two biological siblings.
Amelie is trying to recover from a toxic relationship by revisiting all the places where she has cried in public.
Paige is used to staying quiet. But when she ends up working on a school yearbook project together with the school bullies, she is forced to find her own voice.
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember.
Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run.
Cody’s best friend Meg has committed suicide. Heartbroken and alone Cody tries to understand what drove Meg to take her own life.
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.
Youngsters in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs, divided by money, tastes and attitude.
A team of girls who seemingly don’t have anything in common, are united in one goal: stealing a jewel-encrusted book aboard the RMS Titanic that just might be the golden ticket to solving their problems.
Darius is half Persian from his mother's side - and has clinical depression. He's travelling to Iran for the first time in his life and has to explain his medication to his grandparents.
Can you love someone you can never touch? Two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can't get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives.
A beautiful and rich family spends their summers on a private island. But all families have secrets.
One elevator ride may take an eternity.
Lumikki Andersson is used to minding her own business... Until she finds thousands of worth of washed bank notes in her school's darkroom.
When Sadie's sister Mattie is found dead, her life crumbles. She is determined to find Mattie's killer and embarks on a road trip across the country to bring him to justice.
Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. And then, of course, there's the small matter of her heart - it's broken.
What was it like to grow up as a brown girl in the 60's and 70's?
"The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." A powerful novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated.
Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
What does feminism mean today?
From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.
This friendly and comprehensive guide is filled with information on everything from privacy settings, direct messaging and cyberbullying, to appearance-enhancing filters, influencers and fake news.
Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.
This book will help you learn to love your body, your friends, and your family.
In this book over 70 people share their stories exploring their own mental health.
Failosophy For Teens is an inspiring and empowering guide to those moments when life doesn’t go to plan.
Celebrate the remarkable achievements of 30 influential women of colour and uncover the personal philosophies that have helped them to flourish.
What exactly is consent? Why does it matter? How can you respect other people’s boundaries, and have them respect yours?
The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen takes the reader into the heart of the action at grands prix around the world, behind the scenes as race strategies are planned, and opens up the private side of his life that he normally guards so carefully.
This short story collection is a call-to-action that invites readers to be anti-racist and advocates for change. Thirty diverse, authors and illustrators engage young people in frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem.
What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can we do to fight it?
In a series of personal essays, journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.
Comics icon Lee provides aspiring comics artists with the modern tools they need to succeed in the comic book creating world.
Dara has an intense connection to the natural world. "In writing this book," Dara explains, "In sharing this journey my hope is that people of all generations will not only understand autism a little more but also appreciate a child's eye view on our delicate and changing biosphere."
World history is full of LGBTQ individuals, and you have never heard of many of them.
It's OK not to be OK acknowledges and explores common mental health disorders such as depression, eating disorders and anxiety.
A true story of two teenagers and a crime that changed their lives.
Everything you wanted to know about going plant-based! Want to cut back on meat and dairy, but don't know where to start? This is the young person's no-nonsense guide to everything vegan.
A collection of stories of refugee girls, written by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
It’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gravity Falls and features five butt-kicking, rad teenage girls wailing on monsters and solving a mystery with the whole world at stake.
Vega's parents force her to attend a summer camp. When strange things start to happen at the camp, Vega needs to team up with her bunkmates to find out what's going on.
In the spirit of "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls", Bagieu's collection of short stories introduce the reader to a variety of daring women who by their actions have helped shape history.
Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
Vera wants nothing more than to be one of the girls. But she is too Russian and too poor to fit in. So when she hears of a Russian summer camp, she figures it'll be the perfect place for her. Sadly, things are not as simple as all that.
Tale told in very few words, Alone tells the story of a lone lighthouse keeper that no one has ever seen. A boat bring him supplies and by the time the boat arrives again, the supplies are gone. Moving tale in the spirit of Wonder.
Have you ever wondered what perils refugees must go through to make it to Europe? Illegal is the story of one boy, Ebo. Ebo's brother leaves to look for their sister, and Ebo can't bear to be left behind. Instead, he follows Kwame on a journey to look for Sisi.
Anda spends most of her free time playing a massive-multiplayer role playing game. It's a place where she can be whoever she wants. But the world of online gaming is not that straightforward...
A graphic novel adaptation of one of the world's most famous books.
Robin's life changes overnight when she moves from Korea to the United States.
Winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, Juniper endures bullying from a popular queen bee before investigating rumors about a mythical beast in the nearby forest.
In a world where 80% of the population have superpowers, Izuku Midoriya is the odd one out.
Bina's best friend Austin has been acting strange and now he's going away for the whole summer to a soccer camp. Bina's left behind to wonder how to fill her days, when she makes friends with Austin's older sister. She can't help but wonder, what's wrong with Austin?