G.W. Carver High - Montgomery City

G. W. Carver High School Library
Summer Reading List 2015
Each student planning to attend G. W. Carver High School is encouraged to read
at least one book from each content area from this list. AR information is
included. Books that can be found at the Montgomery City County Public Library
system are marked with an asterisk (*)•
SOCIAL STUDIES
*A N’ nut Party No More: The Conscience ofa Conservative Denwcrat
by Zell Miller (Grades 9 -12). Zell Miller’s take on the Democratic Party.
Assassin by Anna Myers (Grades 7—12)
The events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are explored in
this fictionalized account, narrated in alternating chapters by a teenage White
House seamstress and assassin John Wilkes Booth, [AR Quiz # 102995, BL:
5.2, Pts. 8.0]
*Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (Grades 7— 12)
Tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members
he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45,
[AR’Quiz #54429, BL: 7.7, Pts. 20.0]
*lflcjden~ in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (Grades 9-12) First
person narrative by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs
(1813-1897) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her
family, at the hands of a ruthless owner.
*MyAnfrjnia byWilla Cather (Grades 7— 12) Pioneer immigrants adjust to life.
[AR:QuiZ #713, BL: 6.9, Pts. 14.0]
*Mpeml~mBoundbyAllan B. Ballard (Grades 10—12)
This is an action-packed Civil War novel that tells in personal terms, of the
contjibutions and heroics of African American soldiers in the war.
[AR Quiz #49827, BL 5.6, Pts. 16.0]
MATH
Ferrnat’s Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest
Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh. In Feimet’s Enigma—based on the
autho?s award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS’s “Nova”—Simon
Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the
lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing
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tale of heartbreak and mastery that will fore er change your feelings about
mathematics.
*M~suang America by Andro Linklater. Measuring America tells the fascinating
stor9 of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System-the last
traditional system in the world-and how one man’s surveying chain indelibly
imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to
coast.
Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality by Mind Tools connects
mathematics to the world around us. Reveals mathematics’ great power as an
alternative language for understanding things and explores such concepts as
logic as a computing tool, digital versus analog processes and communication as
information transmission.
Hot X: Algebra Exposed by Danica McKellar IGrades 9 12] Actress and
mathematician explains algebra equations in a fun way by incorporating teen
topics.
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*Math Curse by Lane Smith & Jon Sciesska. [Grades 9-. 11]. Haunted by the math
curse, a student sees every life activity framed as a mathematical problem, from
determining the number of flakes in a bowl of cereal to estimating how many
M&Ms it would take to measure the length of the Mississippi. CAR Quiz#12474,
B.L: 3.7, Pts. 0.5J
SCIENCE
Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Grades 9 -12) This is about the history of our
discovery of the universe and the natural world—a magnificent summary of what
science is and what man is!
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Changes In Latitude by Will Hobbs (Grades 9—11). On vacation in Mexico, 16year-old Travis learns about endangered sea turtles and tries to figure out how
he fits into his own family, which he comes to realize is as “endangered” as the
turlies. “rrn the one with the headphones and the shades,” Travis starts out,
“trailing behind like I’m only loosely affiliated with these people. I used to think I
was the center of the universe, but by the end of the week down there I found out
this wasn’t the case. I found out something about what’s really important and
what’s not. I guess that’s why I’m writing this down, to let you know the price I
paid and let you draw your own conclusions.”
[AR Quiz #: 73924, BL: 4.8, Pts. 5,0]
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*The InvIsible Man by H. 0. Wells (Grades 8— 12)
The Invisible Man is the story of a scientist who finds a way to make himself
invisible. [AR Quiz# 10037, BL: 7.7, Pts. 9.0]
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*Ende,as Game by Karen Judson. Intense is the word for Ender’s Game. Aliens
have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make
sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to
breeding military geniuses-and then training them in the arts of war. [AR Quiz#
28441, BL: 5.5, Pts. 16.01
‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth (unabridged) by Jules Verne Grades 7
12) A group of adventurers enter the earth through a volcano in Iceland. [AR
Quiz# 535, BL: 9.9, Pts. 17.0)
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‘Coma by Robin Cook (Grades 10— 12) A young medical student uncovers a
plot to kill patients. [AR Quiz #126130, BL: 7.0, Pts. 19.0]
ENGLISH
‘Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The storyline follows
the life of Janie Crawford, a black woman in search of true love and her true self
(Grades 9—12). [AR Quiz# 19797, BL: 5.6, Pts. 10.0].
34 Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (Grades 9—12)
In the 1940s in rural Louisiana, an uneducated African American man is
sentenced t die for a crime he was incapable of committing. [AR Quiz #10287,
BL: 4.4,Pts.11.0]
‘The Bully by Paul Langan (Grades 7 12). A new life. An new school. A new
bully. That’s what Darrell MerGer faces when he and his mother move from
Philadelphia to California. After spending months living in fear, Darrell is faced
with a big decision: He can keep running from this bully, or find a way to fight
back [AR Quiz #78147, BL: 4.7, Pts. 5.0]
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‘The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Grades 10 12) The emptiness of the
Jazz Age is conveyed in this novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love
for Daisy. [AR Quiz #708, BL: 7.3, Pts. 8.0]
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‘Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Grades 8— 12) Victim and high school
freshman Mellinda Sordino finds that her attacker is again threatening her.
[AR Quiz #32480, BL: 4.5, Pts. 7.0]
‘Secm~ in the Shadwos by Anne Schraff (Grades 10 12) High-school
student Roylin Bailey tries to impress the new girl in history class, but when when
one of his friends disappears, he becomes caught in a web of lies and threats
[AR Quiz #78144, BL: 4.7, Pts. 3.0]
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‘Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Grades 9— 12) A moving story of the
sufferings of Amari, captured in her village in Africa and taken to America.
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[AR Quiz #1 04029, BL: 5.2, Pts. 11.01
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper (Grades 7— 10) A star basketball player is
killed in a oar accident after her and his friends drink and drive. [AR Quiz
#12349, BL: 4.3, Pts. 4.0]
*The Outsiders by S.E. Rinton (Grades 7— 10) Two rival gangs—the “haves”
and the “have-nots” —fight it out on the streets of an Oklahoma city. [AR Quiz
#381, BL: 4.7, Pta 7.0]
*1 Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Grades 10 12) This
book is the first volume of the autobiography of Maya Angelcu. [AR Quiz #8860,
BL 6,7, Pts. 13.0)
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*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Grades 8-12) A lawyer in a small
Southern town defends an African American man wrongfully accused of rape.
[AR Quiz #720, BL: 5.8, Pts. 15.0]
*Night by Efte Wine!. An autobiographical narrat[ve in which the author
describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and
friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead. [AR Quiz# 5279,
4.8, 4.0].