Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Team for placing third in the district competition.

The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl is a state-wide competition for students who are in the 4th grade and above.  Elementary, middle and high school each hold their competitions respectively.  The Richmond County School System's competition will be held in January.   Winning teams proceed to further competition across the state of Georgia.  The Thomas Walter Josey Media Center has copies of all the titles, either in print and/or eBooks on Follett Destiny.  Even if you are not in the reading bowl, these are great titles for high school students.  

THE 2025 HRRB HIGH SCHOOL BOOKLIST (9th - 12th Grade)

• Age 16 by Rosena Fung

• Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo 

• Crashing into You by Rocky Callen

• Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay  

• Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

• Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell 

• Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo 

• A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

• Sky's End (Above the Black, Book 1) by Marc J. Gregson  

• Songlight by Moira Buffini  

• Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs

• Tangleroot by Lalela Williams

• That's Not My Name by Megan Lally 

• Thirsty by Jas Hammonds 

• This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed

• This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill

• Touch of Death by Taylor Munsell 

• Under the Surface by Diana Urban 

• Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill  

• When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson 

• Test Your Knowledge with this Mock Round