Recommended Books for ESL D
| Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Call No. |
| Feed (RL 4.4) | Anderson, M.T. | F AND |
| Broken Moon (RL 4.4) | Antieau, Kim | F ANT |
| Devil's Pass | Brouwer, Sigmund | F BRO |
| Boy Proof (RL 4.2) | Castellucci, Cecil | F CAS |
| Along for the Ride (RL 4.7) | Dessen, Sarah | F DES |
| Just Listen (RL 4.9) | Dessen, Sarah | F DES |
| 48 Shades of Brown (RL 4.8) | Earls, Nick | F EAR |
| Wrecked (RL 4.4) | Frank, E.R. | F FRA |
| The Courtesan's Daughter (RL 4.7) | Galloway, Priscilla | F GAL |
| Beautiful Creatures (RL 4.5) | Garcia, Kami | F GAR |
| Fat Kid Rules the World (RL 4.3) | Going, K.L. | F GOI |
| Godless (RL 4.8) | Hautman, Pete | F HAU |
| Rash (RL 4) | Hautman, Pete | F HAU |
| Crank (RL 4.4) | Hopkins, Ellen | F HOP |
| Repossessed (RL 4.3) | Jenkins, A.M. | F JEN |
| 13 Little Blue Envelopes (RL 4.8) | Johnson, Maureen | F MAU |
| Caught in the Blizzard (RL 4.0) | Kropp, Paul | F KRO |
| B for Buster (RL 4.7) | Lawrence, Iain | F LAW |
| We Were Liars (RL 4.4) | Lockhart, E. | F LOC |
| Number the Stars (RL 4.5) | Lowry, Lois | F LOW |
| Close to the Heel | McClintock, Norah | F MCC |
| Acceleration (RL 4.4) | McNamee, Graham | F MCN |
| Twilight (RL 4.4) | Meyers, Stephanie | F MEY |
| TTYL (Talk to You Later) (RL 4.7) | Myracle, Lauren | F MYR |
| The Ask and the Answer (RL 4.6) | Ness, Patrick | F NES |
| Half Brother (RL 4.2) | Oppel, Kenneth | F OPP |
| This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein (RL 4.3) | Oppel, Kenneth | F OPP |
| Last Message | Peacock, Shane | F PEA |
| Monsoon Summer (RL 4.3) | Perkins, Mitali | F PER |
| Luna (RL 4.9) | Peters, Julie | F PET |
| The Dead and the Gone (RL 4.3) | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | F PFE |
| Remember Me (RL 4.2) | Pike, Christopher | F PIK |
| The She (RL 4.8) | Plum-Ucci, Carol | F PLU |
| The Lightning Thief (RL 4.7) | Riordan, Rick | F RIO |
| Ink Me | Scrimger, Richard | F SCR |
| Stargirl (RL 4.2) | Spinelli, Jerry | F SPI |
| Jump Cut | Staunton, Ted | F STA |
| Shiver (RL 4.5) | Stiefvater, Maggie | F STI |
| Chanda's Secrets (RL 4.6) | Stratton, Allan | F STR |
| Fallout (RL 4.5) | Strasser, Todd | F STR |
| It's Kind of a Funny Story (RL 4) | Vizzini, Ned | F VIZ |
| Between Heaven and Earth | Walters, Eric | F WAL |
| Lost Cause | Wilson, John | F WIL |
| All These Things I've Done | Zevin, Gabrielle | F ZEV |
| Bayview High series (~127 pages) | ||
| After Dinner Barf (RL 5) | Fast, April | F FAS |
| Beating Up Daniel (RL 5) | Fast, April | F FAS |
| Dangerous Rivals (RL 5) | Fast, April | F FAS |
| Dear Liz (RL 5) | Levigne, Heather | F LEV |
| Muscle Bound (RL 5) | Levigne, Heather | F LEV |
| New Girl (RL 5) | Levigne, Heather | F LEV |
| The Big Split (RL 5) | Levigne, Heather | F LEV |
| Making the Grade (RL 5) | Sotzek, Hannelore | F SOT |
| Non-Fiction | ||
| Disasters series (~100 pages) | ||
| Terrorism (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 303.625 WEI |
| Ecological Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 304.28 WEI |
| Sea Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 363.123 WEI |
| Air Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 363.124 WEI |
| Space Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 363.124 WEI |
| Fire Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 363.370 WEI |
| Volcanoes (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 551.21 WEI |
| Earthquakes (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 551.22 WEI |
| Deadly Storms (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 551.55 WEI |
| Mountain Disasters (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Weil, Ann | 756.522 WEI |
| Astonishing Headlines series (~100 pages) | ||
| Captured (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Barr, Linda | 428.6 BAR |
| Kidnapped (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Carpentiere, Elizabeth | 428.6 CAR |
| Shot Down (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Cheney, Glenn | 428.6 CHE |
| Trapped (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Cheney, Glenn | 428.6 CHE |
| Stowed Away (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Embacher, Eric | 428.6 EMB |
| Missing (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Hutt, Sarah | 428.6 HUT |
| Stranded at Sea (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Linnihan, Ellen | 428.6 LIN |
| Lost and Found (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Purney, Dawn | 428.6 PUR |
| Attacked (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Schorr, Loretta | 428.6 SCH |
| Condemned (RL 4.0 - 5.0) | Scott, Caitlin | 428.6 SCO |