2015-2016 OTHS Summer Reading Program Title List

2015-2016 OTHS Summer Reading Program Title List
FRESHMAN LIST
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here.
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"Lack of access to information can be harmful to minors. Librarians and library governing bodies have a public and professional obligation to ensure that all members of the community they serve have free, equal, and equitable
access to the entire range of library resources regardless of content, approach, format, or amount of detail. This principle of library service applies equally to all users, minors as well as adults. Librarians and library governing
bodies must uphold this principle in order to provide adequate and effective service to minors." (American Library Association's statement on Intellectual Freedom, Section B.2.1.4) As such, parents/guardians maintain the right
and responsibility to govern their student's access to OTHS library resources as well as inter-library loan materials. We encourage parents/guardians to be actively aware of their student's resource selections.
Title
Author
Interest
Level
Awards, Reviews,
etc.
Annotation
Covey, Sean
Young
Adult
Conference
Recommendation
Describes six important decisions teenagers will face and offers advice on the
choices that should be made, discussing school, friends, parents, dating,
addictions, and self-worth.
Young
Adult
School Library Journal
Starred, Abe Lincoln Book
2011, Bulletin of the Center
for Children's Books,
Publishers Weekly Starred,
ALA Notable/Best Books,
and National Book Award
Winner
"The line between dramatic monologue, verse novel, and standup comedy gets
hilariously and triumphantly bent in this novel about coming of age on the rez.
Urged on by a math teacher whose nose he has just broken, Junior, fourteen,
decides to make the iffy commute from his Spokane Indian reservation to
attend high school in Reardan, a small town twenty miles away. He's tired of his
impoverished circumstances, but while he hopes his new school will offer him a
better education, he knows the odds aren't exactly with him: 'What was I doing
at Reardan, whose mascot was an Indian, thereby making me the only other
Indian in town?'" (Horn Book)
The 6 Most Important
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Decisions You'll Ever Make: A
Choice
Guide for Teens
Freshman Title The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
Choice
Alexie, Sherman
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Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Boy 21
The Boy Who Dared
Egg and Spoon
The Eye of Minds
Quick, Matthew
Bartoletti, Susan
Campbell
Maguire, Gregory
Dashner, James
Young
Adult
Basketball stars Finley McManus and his girlfriend Erin are both looking forward
to their senior year. They live in a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, and
violence. Finley and Erin dream of escaping Bellmont by winning basketball
Best Fiction Books for
Young Adults (2013), Kirkus scholarships to college. Everything seems to be going their way until Finley's
Review Starred, and
coach asks him to befriend a new student, Russ Allen, a basketball prodigy who
Conference
has had his life turned upside down by the murder of his parents. Unable to deal
Recommendation
with all the changes, Russ calls himself Boy21 (his former jersey number) and
talks about being from outer space. The three teens find their lives intertwined
with the violence of the town. (Library Media Connection)
Young
Adult
Rebecca Caudill, Junior
Library Guild Selection, ALA
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for
Book Links, Booklist
Starred, School Library
distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate
Journal Starred, and Read
himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
for a Lifetime 2011-2012
List
Young
Adult
Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been
dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army,
the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is
Kirkus Review Starred,
dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in
Horn Book Starred,
the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble
Publishers Weekly Starred,
family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes
and School Library Journal
Ekaterina,
a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is
Starred
set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a
tower, a prince traveling incognito, and Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in
her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.
Young
Adult
This is the first novel in the Mortality Doctrine series set in a world of
hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest
dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.
Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on
the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body
immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother
following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?
But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to
fool with. And one gamer has been doing exactly that, with murderous results.
The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And
they’ve been watching Michael. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need
to go off the VirtNet grid to the back alleys and corners of the system human
eyes have never seen—and there’s the possibility that the line between game
and reality will be blurred forever.
YALSA Teen's Top 10 for
2014
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Freshman Title
Choice
The Fault in Our Stars
Green, John
Young
Adult
Booklist Starred, Kirkus
Review Starred, Horn Book
Starred, Library Media
Connection Starred,
Publishers Weekly Starred,
School Library Journal
Starred, Abe Lincoln Book
2014, and Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books
Starred
Freshman Title
Choice
If I Grow Up
Strasser, Todd
Young
Adult
Library Media Connection
Starred and Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books
Freshman Title
Choice
Kiss of Deception
Pearson, Mary E.
Young
Adult
Sparks fly when Hazel Grace Lancaster spies Augustus "Gus" Waters checking
her out across the room in a group-therapy session for teens living with cancer.
He's gorgeous, confident, intelligent amputee who always loses video games
because he tries to save everyone. She's smart, snarky and 16; she goes to
community college and jokingly calls Peter Van Houten, the author of her
favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, her only friend besides her parents. He
asks her over, and the swap novels. He agrees to read the Van Houten and she
agrees to read his--based on his favorite bloodbath-filled video game. The two
become connected at the hip, and what follows is a smartly crafted intellectual
explosion of a romance. From their trip to Amsterdam to meet the reclusive
Van Houten to their hilariously flirty repartee, readers will swoon on nearly
every page. (Kirkus)
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the
gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course.
As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight--but she
doesn't--and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange
her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom--to a prince she
has never met.
Booklist Starred, Publishers
Weekly Starred, and School On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a
Library Journal Starred
new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and
unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her.
Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous
secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love.
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Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Noggin
Peak
Ready Player One
Stargirl
Whaley, Corey
Smith, Roland
Cline, Ernest
Spinelli, Jerry
Young
Adult
Listen—Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasn't.
Now he's alive again.
Simple as that.
The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but Travis can tell you that, at some
point or another, his head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver,
Booklist Starred, Publishers
Colorado. Five years later, it was reattached to some other guy's body, and well,
Weekly Starred, and 2014
here he is. Despite all logic, he's still sixteen, but everything and everyone
National Book Award
around him has changed. That includes his bedroom, his parents, his best
Finalist
friend, and his girlfriend. Or maybe she's not his girlfriend anymore? That's a bit
fuzzy too.
Looks like if the new Travis and the old Travis are ever going to find a way to
exist together, there are going to be a few more scars.
Oh well, you only live twice.
Young
Adult
"Dare-devil mountain-climber, Peak Marcello (14), decides to scale the
Woolworth Building and lands in jail. To save him, his long-lost Everest-trekking
Booklist Starred, Horn Book
dad appears with a plan for the duo to make a life in Katmandu--a smokescreen
Starred, Bulletin of the
to make Peak become the youngest person in history to summit Mount Everest.
Center for Children's
Peak must learn to navigate the extreme and exotic terrain but negotiate a code
Books, and Publishers
of ethics among men. Can Peak be the youngest ever to summit Everest, and
Weekly Starred
can he beat out a 14-year-old Nepalese boy who accompanies him?" (Kirkus
Reviews)
Young
Adult
In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape
reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the
OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by
OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of
others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of
massive fortune.
Young
Adult
Booklist Starred, Abe
Lincoln Book 2014, ALA
Alex Award 2012
From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the
hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures Leo Borlock's
heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one
Publishers Weekly Starred,
cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted, at first. Then they turn on her.
ALA Notable Children's
Book, and Bulletin of the
Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo,
Center for Children's Books panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can
destroy her: normal. Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the
perils of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first love.
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Freshman Title
Thirteen Reasons Why: A Novel
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
Freshman Title
Choice
To All the Boys I've Loved
Before
We Were Liars
Asher, Jay
Han, Jenny
Lockhart, E.
Young
Adult
Young
Adult
Young
Adult
Kirkus Review Starred, Abe
Lincoln Book 2013
School Library Journal
Starred and Publishers
Weekly Starred,
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing
thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed
suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their
town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at
once?
Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They
aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written.
One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out
her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life,
because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are
mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of
control.
A devastating tale of greed and secrets springs from the summer that tore
Cady's life apart. Cady Sinclair's family uses its inherited wealth to ensure that
each successive generation is blond, beautiful and powerful. Reunited each
summer by the family patriarch on his private island, his three adult daughters
and various grandchildren lead charmed, fairy-tale lives, but this is no sanitized,
Booklist Starred, Kirkus
modern Disney fairy tale; this is Cinderella with her stepsisters' slashed heels in
Review Starred, Horn Book
bloody glass slippers. Cady's fairy-tale retellings are dark, as is the personal
Starred, Publishers Weekly
tragedy that has led to her examination of the skeletons in the Sinclair castle's
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closets; its rent turns out to be extracted in personal sacrifices. Cady, her two
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cousins closest in age, and Gat, the Heathcliff-esque figure she has always
loved, are disenchanted with the Sinclair legacy of self-absorption, but the four
believe family redemption is possible--if they have the courage to act. Their
sincere hopes and foolish naïveté make the teens' desperate, grand gesture all
that much more tragic. (Kirkus)
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SOPHOMORE LIST
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book matches what is listed here.
"Lack of access to information can be harmful to minors. Librarians and library governing bodies have a public and professional obligation to ensure that all members of the community they serve have free, equal, and equitable
access to the entire range of library resources regardless of content, approach, format, or amount of detail. This principle of library service applies equally to all users, minors as well as adults. Librarians and library governing
bodies must uphold this principle in order to provide adequate and effective service to minors." (American Library Association's statement on Intellectual Freedom, Section B.2.1.4) As such, parents/guardians maintain the right
and responsibility to govern their student's access to OTHS library resources as well as inter-library loan materials. We encourage parents/guardians to be actively aware of their student's resource selections.
Sophomore
Title Choice
Title
Author
Interest
Level
Awards, Reviews,
etc.
Annotation
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
Teens
Covey, Sean
Young
Adult
Conference
Recommendation
Describes seven habits teenagers can cultivate to help them improve their selfimages, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals, get along with
parents, and make other positive changes in their lives.
"Joining the growing list of titles based on Anne Frank’s diary, this novel is
Sophomore
Title Choice
Annexed
Dogar, Sharon
Young
Adult
School Library Journal
written from the viewpoint of Peter van Pels, who is nearly 16 in 1942 when he
Starred, Horn Book Starred,
and his parents join the Franks in hiding in their Amsterdam attic. Meticulous
Publishers Weekly Starred,
about distinguishing fact from fiction, the author points out that Anne’s view in
Bulletin of the Center for
The Diary may have contradicted Peter’s story. Here, she irritates him at first,
Children's Books Starred,
and
she invades his privacy in the crowded space. Then he and Anne get closer,
and Library Media
flirt,
and kiss. Peter asks her not to put their relationship in her diary, which
Connection Starred
raises a crucial question: What did Anne leave out?" (Booklist)
Sophomore
Title Choice
Between Shades of Gray
Sepetys, Ruta
Young
Adult
School Library Journal
Starred, Library Media
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is preparing for art school, first dates, and all that
Connection Starred,
Publishers Weekly Starred, summer has to offer. Then one night Soviet secret police barge violently into
Bulletin of the Center for her home. Lina, her mother, and younger brother are deported to Siberia. Her
Children's Books, Kirkus
father, separated from the family, is sentenced to death in a prison camp. On
Review Starred, William C.
their long and harrowing journey, strength, love, and hope pull the family
Morris YA Debut Nominee
through. Will it be enough to keep them alive?
2012, and ALA Notable
Children's Book 2012
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Sophomore
Title Choice
Sophomore
Title Choice
Sophomore
Title Choice
Book Thief
Clockwork Angel
The Family Romanov: Murder,
Rebellion, and the Fall of
Imperial Russia
Zusak, Markus
Clare, Cassandra
Fleming, Candace
Young
Adult
Horn Book Starred, School
Library Journal Starred,
Library Media Connection
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of
Starred, Publishers Weekly
Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help
Starred, Bulletin of the
sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their
Center for Children's
neighbors.
Books, Kirkus Review
Starred, and Abe Lincoln
Book 2010
Young
Adult
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her
search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural
underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she
must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn
to control her powers and find her brother.
Young
Adult
Bulletin of the Center for
Children's Books
The tragic Romanovs, last imperial family of Russia, have long held tremendous
fascination. The interest generated by this family is intense, from debates about
Duchess Anastasia and her survival to the discovery of their pathetic mass
graves. A significant number of post-Glasnost Russian citizens consider the
Romanovs holy to the extent that the Russian Orthodox Church has canonized
them. This well-researched and well-annotated book provides information not
only on the history of these famous figures but also on the Russian people living
Booklist Starred, Horn Book at the time and on the social conditions that contributed to the family's demise.
The narrative alternates between a straightforward recounting of the
Starred, School Library
Journal Starred, Publishers Romanovs' lives and primary source narratives of peasants' lives. The contrast is
Weekly Starred, Kirkus
compelling and enhances understanding of how the divide between the
Review Starred, and VOYA
extremely rich and the very poor can lead directly to violent and dramatic
Starred
political change. While the description and snippets on the serfs and factory
workers are workmanlike, the pictures painted of the reclusive and insular
Romanovs is striking. Unsuited to the positions in which they found themselves,
Nicholas and Alexandra raised their children in a bubble, inadequately educating
them and providing them only slight exposure to society. The informative text
illuminates their inability to understand the social conditions in Russia and the
impact it might have had on them. This sobering work and account of the
discovery of their bones and the aftermath is fascinating and distressing.
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Sophomore
Title Choice
Sophomore
Title Choice
I Am Malala: The Girl Who
Stood Up for Education and
was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and
Divorced
Yousafzai, Malala
When the Taliban took control of Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai refused to be
silenced and fought for her right to an education. However, on October 9,
2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in
the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few
expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on
an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls
of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol
of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Adult &
Young
Adult
Ali, Nujood
Adult &
Young
Adult
Sophomore
Title Choice
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of
a Boy Soldier
Beah, Ishmael
Adult &
Young
Adult
Sophomore
Title Choice
Mexican Whiteboy
Peña, Matt de la
Young
Adult
New York Times Best
Sellers List
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was
sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her
husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered
daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the
rough hands of her spouse. Unable to endure the pain and distress any longer,
Nujood fled-not for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi
ride with a few precious coins of bread money. When a renowned Yemeni
lawyer heard about the young victim, she took on Nujood's case and fought the
archaic system in a country where almost half the girls are married while still
under the legal age. Recently honored alongside Hillary Clinton and
Condoleezza Rice as one of Glamour Magazine's women of the year, Nujood
now tells her full story for the first time.
Abe Lincoln Book 2010,
Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by
Library Journal Starred,
war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of
Bulletin of the Center for
thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting
Children's Books, and
by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.
Publishers Weekly Starred
Bulletin of the Center for
Children's Books and Abe
Lincoln Book 2012
Danny, who is tall and skinny but has a talent for pitching a fastball, cannot
seem to fit in at school in San Diego, where his Mexican and white heritage
causes people to judge him before he even speaks.
Sophomore
Title Choice
Of Beetles and Angels
Asgedom, Mawi
Young
Adult
Kliatt Starred and
Conference
Recommendation
So begins this unforgettable true story of a young boy's remarkable journey:
from civil war in east Africa to a refugee camp in Sudan, to a childhood on
welfare in an affluent American suburb, and eventually to a full-tuition
scholarship at Harvard University. Following his father's advice to "treat all
people--even the most unsightly beetles--as though they were angels sent from
heaven," Mawi overcomes the challenges of racial prejudice, language barriers,
and financial disadvantage to build a fulfilling, successful life for himself in his
new home.
Sophomore
Title Choice
Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Young
Adult
Library Journal Starred and
Publishers Weekly Starred
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story
of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the
country came under control of the Islamic regime.
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Sophomore
Title Choice
Revolution
Donnelly, Jennifer
Young
Adult
School Library Journal
Starred, Kirkus Review
Starred, Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books
Starred
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her
prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school
assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a
young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis
Charles, the lost king of France.
Follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running
Sophomore
Title Choice
Running the Rift
Benaron, Naomi
Adult &
Young
Adult
will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted
Kirkus Reviews Starred,
athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming
Library Journal Starred,
Publishers Weekly Starred, his country's first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a
and Conference
world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people. As
Recommendation
tensions mount between the Hutu and Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream that
running might deliver him, and his people, from the brutality around them.
Sophomore
Title Choice
Sophomore
Title Choice
Sophomore
Title Choice
Sold
Tiger's Curse
The Watch That Ends the Night
McCormick, Patricia
Young
Adult
Houck, Colleen
Young
Adult
Wolf, Allan
Young
Adult
Booklist Starred, Horn Book
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking
Starred, Bulletin of the
Center for Children's
that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into
Books, and Publishers
the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Weekly Starred
New York Times Best
Sellers List
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger
who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were
cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the
tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Booklist Starred, Horn Book Written in verse, this novel gives voice, through first-person accounts, to a cross
Starred, Bulletin of the
section of Titanic passengers and crew. Hovering over all is the omniscient
Center for Children's
"Iceberg," providing a menacing voiceover throughout the narrative. The
Books, Kirkus Reviews
themes of natural disaster, technology, social class, survival, and death all play
Starred, Library Media
out here. Explanatory character notes separate verifiable fact from fiction and
Connection Starred, and
address conflicting reports.
Publishers Weekly Starred
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JUNIOR LIST
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bodies must uphold this principle in order to provide adequate and effective service to minors." (American Library Association's statement on Intellectual Freedom, Section B.2.1.4) As such, parents/guardians maintain the right
and responsibility to govern their student's access to OTHS library resources as well as inter-library loan materials. We encourage parents/guardians to be actively aware of their student's resource selections.
Title
Junior Title
Choice
Junior Title
Choice
Junior Title
Choice
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine,
and the Lawless Years of
Prohibition
The Boys in the Boat: Nine
Americans and Their Epic Quest
for Gold at the 1936 Berlin
Olympics
Briar Rose
Author
Interest
Level
Blumenthal, Karen
Adult &
Young
Adult
Brown, Daniel James
Yolen, Jane
Adult &
Young
Adult
Young
Adult
Awards, Reviews,
etc.
Annotation
School Library Journal's
Best Books of 2011
Social reformers thought the 18th Amendment would curtail drunkenness, but it
inadvertently created a culture of crime. This enthralling text traces the nation's
relationship with alcohol from our earliest settlers to contemporary crusaders
against drunk driving, creating a rich portrait of a volatile and fascinating chapter
of American history.
This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew
and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport
and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard
workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British
universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic
games in Berlin, 1936.
Booklist Starred, Library
The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager
Journal Starred, and New
without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered
York Times Best Sellers List
self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an
enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it
is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the
country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together--a
perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism.
ALA Notable Children's
Book
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The story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) is linked to the
Holocaust. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her
grandmother Gemma tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping
Beauty legend, realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very
few clues she has to her grandmother's past. To discover the facts behind
Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's most
engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters.
Junior Title
Choice
A Brief History of Montmaray
Junior Title
Choice
Code Name Verity
Junior Title
Choice
The Devil in the White City:
Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair that Changed
America
Cooper, Michelle
Young
Adult
Booklist Starred
There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.
Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of
Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives
a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on
the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland
reveals a world on the brink of war. The politics of Europe seem far away from
their remote island—until two German officers land a boat on Montmaray. And
then suddenly politics become very personal indeed.
Oct. 11, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and
passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other
has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the
Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in
enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give
her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she
intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became
friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage
of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life,
confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it
home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893
Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the
challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and
looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure
victims to their deaths.
Wein, Elizabeth
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Adult
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Father of Lies
Turner, Ann Warren
Young
Adult
In 1692 when a plague of accusations descends on Salem Village in
Massachusetts and "witch fever" erupts, fourteen-year-old Lidda, who has
begun to experience visions and hear voices, tries to expose the lies of the witch
trials without being hanged as a witch herself. Includes author's notes about the
Salem Witch Trials and bipolar disease.
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Choice
Fever, 1793
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Young
Adult
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick
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and School Library Journal mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope
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with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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Choice
Ghosts of War: The True Story
of a 19-year-old GI
Smithson, Ryan
Young
Adult
Abe Lincoln Book 2012
Ryan Smithson recounts the experiences he had serving his first tour of duty as
an Army engineer in Iraq when he was only nineteen.
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Love is the Higher Law
Levithan, David
Young
Adult
Abe Lincoln Book 2012
Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World
Trade Center on September 1, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world.
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Making the Right College
Choice: Technical, 2-year, 4year (Ed. 2010)
Silivanch, Annalise
Young
Adult
Conference
Recommendation
A guide to different college options, including two-year, four-year, and technical
school programs, covering whether college is the correct choice; appropriate
school selection; completion of applications; and how to deal with rejections or
being wait-listed.
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Master of Deceit: J. Edgar
Hoover and America in the Age
of Lies
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The
Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth
Keckley & Mary Todd Lincoln
Aronson, Marc
Jones, Lynda
Young
Adult
A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first director. In
this unsparing exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the
twentieth century, accomplished historian Marc Aronson unmasks the man
behind the Bureau- his tangled family history and personal relationships; his
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Publishers Weekly Starred, own need for secrecy, deceit, and control; and the broad trends in American
and School Library Journal society that shaped his world. Hoover may have given America the security it
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wanted, but the secrets he knew gave him - and the Bureau - all the power he
wanted. Using photographs, cartoons, movie posters, and FBI transcripts,
Master of Deceit gives readers the necessary evidence to make their own
conclusions.
Young
Adult
Tells the story of Elizabeth Keckley, born into slavery, and her friendship with
Mary Todd Lincoln. The book opens with the first meetings between Mary, the
new first lady, in need of a seamstress, and Elizabeth, the experienced
dressmaker. Things get off to a rough start, but Elizabeth has a talent not just
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for sewing, but for soothing Mary. In alternating chapters, Jones then
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introduces both women and contrasts their very different lives. Readers may be
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familiar with the ups and downs of Lincoln’s life, but details of Keckley’s
story—the abuse she suffered, her efforts to buy herself out of slavery—will
give them new insights into the life of a slave, in this case, one who was
educated and had a profession. (Booklist)
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On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster,
Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil
Rights
Sunrise over Fallujah
Thunder Dog: The True Story of
a Blind Man, His Guide Dog,
and the Triumph of Trust at
Ground Zero
The Things a Brother Knows
Sheinkin, Steve
Myers, Walter Dean
Hingson, Michael
Reinhardt, Dana
Young
Adult
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Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks,
Award Winner (2014),
critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a
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mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and
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unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty
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were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.
Starred, and School Library
This
is a fascinating story of the prejudice that faced black men and women in
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America's
armed forces during World War II, and a nuanced look at those who
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gave their lives in service of a country where they lacked the most basic rights.
(2014)
Young
Adult
"Instead of heading to college as his father wishes, Robin leaves Harlem and
joins the army to stand up for his country after 9/11. While stationed in Iraq
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with a war looming that he hopes will be averted, he begins writing letters
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home to his parents and to his Uncle Richie, the main character from Myers's
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acclaimed Vietnam War novel, Fallen Angels. Robin finds himself in a diverse
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Civil Affairs unit of both men and women, with a mission to serve as a buffer
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between
winning over the Iraqi people and concurrent military operations. As
and School Library Journal
the war unfolds, the military angle of Robin's job escalates, and he experiences
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increasing horrors of violence, death, destruction, insecurity, sorrow, and
extreme fear." (School Library Journal)
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Adult
Young
Adult
New York Times Best
Sellers List
"Born blind, Hingson learned pretty quickly how to adapt to his situation. It’s
the rest of the world that gave him pause. In this moving and enlightening book,
Hingson explains how he and his guide dog, Roselle, survived the horrors of the
September 11 attacks. Trapped on the 78th floor of Tower One in the World
Trade Center, the duo managed to find their way to safety, counting stairs on
his way down (all 1,463 of them). Along with describing in detail the events
that transpired on that terrible day, he also explains what it is like to be blind,
often with self-deprecating humor—there are advantages, he notes, such as
saving on electricity. Blindness, he insists, is not a handicap; the real handicap
'comes from the prejudices people have about blindness.'" (Booklist)
"In a Boston suburb, Levi’s older brother, Boaz, has just returned from fighting
in 'some desert country half a world away.' The U.S. Marines say Boaz is
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'healthy,' but Levi thinks otherwise; Boaz doesn’t want to ride in a car, sleep in a
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bed, or even come out of his room, and he dives for cover at unpredictable
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moments. Levi misses Boaz as he remembers him, before he left two years
of 2010
earlier: a high-school hero; a happy, well-adjusted son and grandson; and a
difficult but still-wonderful older brother. " (Booklist)
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Choice
A Wish After Midnight
Elliott, Zetta
Genna Colon is a fifteen-year-old girl living in Brooklyn. She doesn't have a lot to
show for herself besides bad hair, an impossible crush on a classmate, and a
dysfunctional family. What she does have--an intelligence beyond her peers--is
not winning her many friends in school, so she seeks safe haven in her favorite
place in the city: a quiet, enclosed garden with a fountain. When Genna flees
into her sanctuary late one night, she makes a desperate wish and finds herself
instantly transported back in time to Civil War era Brooklyn. Displaced in the
past, Genna realizes she has eluded one harsh reality only to surface in another.
She must confront new horrors and all-too-familiar prejudices, while holding
tightly to a cover-story that threatens to unravel at any moment.
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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids
Nobody Wants and the Doctor
Who Heals Them
B+ Grades, A+ College
Application: How to Present
Your Strongest Self, Write a
Standout Admissions Essay,
and Get into the Perfect School
for You--Even with Less-thanPerfect Grades
Author
Christensen, Randy
Jager-Hyman, Joie
Interest
Level
Awards, Reviews,
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Adult
The unforgettable, inspiring memoir of Dr. Randy Christensen, a pediatrician
who saves lives in a most unconventional way, treating the homeless children
and adolescents of Phoenix, Arizona, in a 38-foot Winnebago turned into a
doctor's office on wheels.
Adult
Less-than-perfect grades? No problem!
Contrary to popular opinion, you don't need to have a 4.0 GPA or a perfect
jump shot to get into a good college. This insider's guide reveals easy tweaks
that will pay off big-time in showing admissions officers that you as a whole-not just your SAT scores--are a perfect fit for their incoming class. With stellar
advice on getting into schools that will allow you to thrive, this handbook
reveals how to:
Find great colleges that are a good match for your strengths (and will overlook
less-relevant weaknesses); Painlessly beef up your application; Tailor
extracurriculars to showcase your uniqueness; Make sure your
recommendation letters emphasize the right qualities; Write original essays
that reveal traits beyond your transcript; Make an impression on admissions
officers and college interviewers; Create an early-admissions strategy to
increase your likelihood of acceptance; Help your chances if you're deferred;
Get into brand-name schools through the side door; Communicate about
learning disabilities or special circumstances; Get scholarship money based on
attributes other than grades and customize your financial aid strategy.
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of
Tragedy and Redemption in the
Age of Attention
Every Day I Fight
Richtel, Matt
Scott, Stuart and Larry
Platt
Adult
Adult
A landmark exploration of the vast and expanding impact of technology,
rivetingly told through the lens of a deadly collision
One of the year's most original and masterfully reported books, A Deadly
Wandering by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel
interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story
of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining
questions of our time: What is technology doing to us? Can our minds keep up
with the pace of change? How can we find balance? Through Richtel's
beautifully constructed narrative, a complex and far-reaching topic becomes
intimate and urgent—an important call to reexamine our own lives.
On the last day of summer, an ordinary Utah college student named Reggie
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Shaw fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving along a
majestic stretch of highway bordering the Rocky Mountains. Richtel follows
Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the
state's groundbreaking prosecution (at the time there was little precedent to
guide the court), and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility.
Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding
human attention and the impact of technology on our brains—showing how
these devices, now thoroughly embedded into all aspects of our lives, play to
our deepest social instincts and prey on parts of the brain that crave
stimulation, creating loops of compulsion, even addiction.
Shortly before he passed away, on January 4, 2015, Stuart Scott completed
work on this memoir. It was both a labor of love and a love letter to life itself.
Not only did Stuart relate his personal story—his childhood in North Carolina,
his supportive family, his athletic escapades, his on-the-job training as a
fledgling sportscaster, his being hired and eventual triumphs at ESPN—he
shared his intimate struggles to keep his story going. Struck by appendiceal
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cancer in 2007, Stuart battled this rare disease with an unimaginable tenacity
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and vigor. Countless surgeries, enervating chemotherapies, endless shuttling
from home to hospital to office and back—Stuart continued defying fate,
pushing himself through exercises and workout routines that kept him strong.
He wanted to be there for his teenage daughters, Sydni and Taelor, not simply
as their dad, but as an immutable example of determination and courage.
Every Day I Fight is a saga of love, an inspiration to us all.
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and
Death at a Storm-Ravaged
Hospital
A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius
Imperfect: An Improbable Life
Fink, Sheri
Eggers, Dave
Abbott, Jim
Adult
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a
New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina - and her suspenseful
portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri
Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into
the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid
chaos.
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After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat
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climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for
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rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations
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that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their
New York Times Best
deaths.
Sellers List, and ALA
Five
Days
at
Memorial
,
the
culmination
of six years of reporting, unspools the
Notable Book Finalist
mystery
of
what
happened
in
those
days,
bringing the reader into a hospital
(2014)
fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of
health care rationing.
In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the
hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in
America for the impact of large-scale disasters--and how we can do better. A
remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial
radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.
Adult
Booklist Starred, Library A moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both
of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an
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Times Best Sellers List, and
exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly
Pulitzer Prize Finalist for
inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family
General Non-Fiction
together.
Adult
On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee
Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history.
The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in
the annals of professional sports. In this honest and insightful memoir, Jim
Abbott reveals the insecurities of a life spent as the different one, how he
habitually hid his disability in his right front pocket, and why he chose an
occupation in which the uniform provided no front pockets. With a riveting
pitch-by-pitch account of his no-hitter providing the ideal frame for his story,
this unique athlete offers readers an extraordinary and unforgettable memoir.
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Kisses from Katie: A Story of
Relentless Love and
Redemption
League of Denial: The NFL,
Concussions, and the Battle for
the Truth
On Writing: A Memoir of the
Craft
Davis, Katie
Fainaru-Wada, Mark
and Steve Fainaru
King, Stephen
Adult
What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and
homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disappoint her parents by
forgoing college, break her little brother's heart, lose all but a handful of her
friends (because the rest of them think she has gone off the deep end), and
break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she
knew only one person but didn't know any of the language? A passion to make
a difference. Katie Davis left over Christmas break her senior year for a short
mission trip to Uganda and her life was turned completely inside out. She found
herself so moved by the people and children of Uganda that she knew her
calling was to return and care for them.
Adult
“PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE
BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS.”
So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper
on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible
even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of
neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a
deadly new scourge: A chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming
number of players -- including some of the all-time greats -- to madness.
League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades,
sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between
football and brain damage.
Comprehensively, and for the first time, award-winning ESPN investigative
reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health
crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our 21st century pastime.
Everyone knew that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who
built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know – and what the league
sought to shield from them – is that no amount of padding could protect the
human brain from the force generated by modern football, and that the very
essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage.
(Amazon)
Adult
Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this
superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising
the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in
his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his
struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 and
how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
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The Other Wes Moore: One
Name, Two Fates
Overwhelming Odds
The Pregnany Project: A
Memoir
Seriously—I’m Kidding
Moore, Wes
O'Leary, Susan and
Denny
Rodriguez, Gaby and
Jenna Glatzer
DeGeneres, Ellen
Adult
Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to
be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and
business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story
of two boys and the journey of a generation. Over dozens of letters and prison
visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own:
Booklist Starred and
Publishers Weekly Starred Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods,
both were fatherless; they'd hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and
both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they
had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead
them to astonishingly different destinies.
Adult
New York Times Best
Sellers List
Overwhelming Odds has been described as a “masterpiece of emotion” and has
been read and shared by 50,000 readers. Written by John’s parents, Susan and
Denny O’Leary, this book details the amazing journey of the fire that burned
their nine-year-old son on 98% of his body. With tears and laughter, this book
will reassure you of the incredible power of faith, hope, prayer and community.
Young
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Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom.
After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers;
from an outsider's perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had
ambitions that didn't include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would
she be treated if she "lived down" to others' expectations? Would everyone
ignore the years she put into being a good student and see her as just another
pregnant teen statistic with no future? These questions sparked Gaby's high
school senior project: faking her own pregnancy to see how her family, friends,
and community would react. What she learned changed her life forever—and
made international headlines in the process.
In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own
pregnancy—hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend's
parents—and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than
that, Gaby's story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the
strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright
future for herself.
Adult
New York Times Best
Sellers List
Ellen DeGeneres recounts moments from her life, discusses what it was like for
her to become the host of a syndicated talk show, provide the voice for Dory in
"Finding Nemo," run in the Boston Marathon, and more, and includes a list of
pros and cons about making a list of pros and cons.
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Spare Parts: Four
Undocumented Teenagers, One
Ugly Robot, and the Battle for
the American Dream
Steve Jobs
Davis, Joshua
Isaacson, Walter
Three Little Words: A Memoir Rhodes-Courter, Ashley
Adult
Adult
Young
Adult
Booklist Starred and
Booklist Adult Editor's
Choice (2014)
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology
Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended
an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar,
Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring
science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from
the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an
underwater robot.
And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to
those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best
collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a
$10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together
less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a
level competition—and yet, against all odds . . . they won!
But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key
inspiration to the DREAMers movement—goes go on to include first-generation
college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in
Afghanistan.
Joshua Davis's Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds
and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and
talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out.
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Times Best Sellers List
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well
as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries,
competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose
passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal
computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital
publishing.
Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster
homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left
clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled
Publishers Weekly Starred deeper and deeper into the foster care system. Painful memories of being taken
and Bulletin of the Center
away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where
for Children's Books
Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and
forced to endure manipulative, humiliating treatment from a very abusive
foster family. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage
to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice.
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Choice
What Color is Your Parachute?
For Teens, Third Edition:
Discover Yourself, Define Your
Future, and Plan for Your
Dream Job
(Third
Edition)
Christen, Carol
No idea what you want to be? No worries! This fun, rewarding guide draws on
the time-tested principles of the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute?
to help you discover your passions, skills, and potential college majors and
dream jobs.
Why now? Because when you identify your interests and passions early, you
can make informed decisions on what additional schooling (and tuition debt)
makes sense for your chosen field.
With fresh updates on the specific challenges of today’s job-market, this new
edition features activities and advice on information interviewing, social media,
internships, and more. Most importantly, it’s packed with big-picture advice
that will set you up to land the job that’s perfect for who you are—and who you
want to be. (Amazon)
Young
Adult
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