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Summer Reading List Spotlight
Today’s Book: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
What’s it about? Lia’s world is broken when her best friend dies as a result of anorexia, and she struggles with having the same eating disorder herself.
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Today’s Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee *Required for English 108*
What’s it about? Scout Finch looks back at her childhood in a small southern town during the 1930s and how she was thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when her lawyer father, Atticus, chose to defend a black man charged with raping a white girl. *This book is only for incoming accelerated freshmen. Repeating this book will not receive credit for summer reading.*
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Today’s Book: Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
What’s it about? When Felton Reinstein has a massive growth spurt turning him from a small bullied boy into a powerful athlete, his world changes adn he finally gains the confidence to face his family’s past and problems.
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Today’s Book: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
What’s it about? In a future society where disability and disease has been eradicated, a man is offered the chance to try an experimental “cure” for autism, wondering how the treatment would change who he is as a person.
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Today’s Book: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
What’s it about? While navigating his freshman year and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he develops a survival guide for high school.
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Today’s Book: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
What’s it about? Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina is taken from obscurity and her only friend Mal to become a protege of the mysterious Darkling who trains her to join the magical elite - the Grisha - believing she has the power to destroy the monsters of the Shadow Fold.
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Today’s Book: The Selection by Kiera Cass
What’s it about? Most girls would be thrilled to be chosen for the Selection - a contest to see who will marry Prince Maxon and move to the palace - but America doesn’t want to compete for the crown or give up her secret love, Aspen.
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Today’s Book: Mississippi: An American Journey by Anthony Walton *Required for English 319*
What’s it about? A black Chicagoan travels to Mississippi, contemplating the history of slavery and civil rights in one of America’s most racially charged states, weaving in historical stories of his own family, poetry, songs, and pictures as he considers racial complexity and the impact of a racist past. Please see the school website for assignment.
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Today’s Book: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
What’s it about? Jacob explores an abandoned orphanage on an island near his home, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
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Today’s Book: Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
What’s it about? Lafayette, Charlie, and Ty’ree’s world has been completely turned upside down by the deaths of their parents, and when when the oldest brother returns from jail, the boys are forced to choose: finally come together as a family or give in to the pain.
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Today’s Book: Iceman by Chris Lynch
What’s it about? Eric is a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice in a sport where being tough is often encouraged, but his aggression is a mask, and he needs to learn how to deal with his anger before he snaps.
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Today’s Book: I Love, I Hate, I Miss My Sister by Amelie Sarn
What’s it about? Sohane and Djelila used to be best friends in addition to sisters, but as they grow older they become strangers to one another, one sister threatened for becoming more religious, the other ridiculed for not being Muslim enough.
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Today’s Book: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
What’s it about? Malala was 15 years old when the Taliban took control of the part of Pakistan where she lived, she stood up for the rights of girls to get an education, and she was shot in the head, but not even a murder attempt could stop her from becoming a global peace advocate and youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Today’s Book: How to Read Literature Like a Professor (2014 edition) by Thomas C. Foster and selected short stories *Required for English 419*
What’s the assignment? The assignments for this course are very specific. If you are taking English 419, your junior year teacher will provide you with the materials or you can locate them from the Conant website and in the Summer Reading Schoology group. Making a late schedule change into AP Literature without this summer reading will put you severely behind. If there is even the slightest possibility you will be in AP Lit, you need to do this assignment.
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Today’s Book: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok *Also on the 2016 Abraham Lincoln Reading List*
What’s it about? Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to her family, and her own desires, Hong Kong-born Kimberly Chang learns to constantly translate not just her language, but herself back and forth between cultures.
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Today’s Book: Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
What’s it about? When Blake goes to a mysterious carnival, he somehow knows that it could be the key to saving his comatose older brother, but learns much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenges presented in this horrific place.
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Today’s Book: Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
What’s it about? Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of comfort in Mexico for the labor camps in Southern California, facing harsh circumstances on the eve of the Great Depression.