Summer+Reading+2013

=This year's summer reading assignment requires students to choose two books from a grade level list. =

Grade 9 Theme: Tolerance
> Warmund 
 * Fiction **
 * Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
 * The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
 * Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
 * How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
 * How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan
 * Incantation by Alice Hoffman
 * The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
 * Nonfiction **
 * The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
 * Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
 * Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream by Joseph Dorinson and Joram
 * Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fiction **
> **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Nonfiction ** > Hockey Team by Wayne R. Coffey
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//The Age of Miracles: A Novel// by Karen Thompson Walker ====
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//The Alchemist// by Paulo Coelho
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//Code Name Verity// by Elizabeth Wein
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//The Future of Us// by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A Step from Heaven by An Na
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why I Fight: A Novel by J. Adams Oaks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly by Doug Stewart
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

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**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fiction **
> **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Nonfiction **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel by E. Lockhart
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Divergent by Veronica Roth
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fracture by Megan Miranda
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Insurgent by Veronica Roth
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars: A Memoir by Lauralee Summer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

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**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Grade 12 Theme: Memoir **
> Akbari by Fabio Geda > **Nonfiction** > Foer > Power of Family by Joshua Hanagarne
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fiction **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: A Novel: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Senior Year: A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball by Dan Shaughnessy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

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