Loyola Summer Reading Book List
Title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Author: William Kamkwamba
The true story of a 14 year‐old boy in Malawi, who through his inventiveness and determination, provides electricity and water to his family, despite all odds.
Genre: Action / Adventure Nonfiction
ISBN_Number: 978‐0061730320
Title: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
In the mid‐1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America.
Genre: Action / Adventure Nonfiction
ISBN_Number: 9780345410085
Page 1 of 37 Title: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Author: Michael Kimmelman
This book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art ‐ points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart ‐ can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it.
Genre: Art / Theatre
ISBN_Number: 9780143037330
Title: The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
Author: Eric Greitens
The Heart and the Fist shares one man’s story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage come together in meaningful service.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
ISBN_Number: 054742485X
Page 2 of 37 Title: An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11‐Year‐Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executi
Author: Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald’s across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both their lives had changed dramatically.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
ISBN_Number: 9781451642513
Title: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller‐coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
ISBN_Number: 1451648537
Page 3 of 37 Title: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Edmund Morris
Thirty years ago, this magisterial biography became a bestseller and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The first of Edmund Morris' three Theodore Roosevelt bios covers the Rough Rider president's life from his 1858 birth to his November 1901 election as president.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
ISBN_Number: 0‐375‐75678‐7
Title: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
An outstanding a very readable biography of American’s greatest president.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
ISBN_Number: 9780743270755
Page 4 of 37 Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.”
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 978‐0375751516
Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
If you've never read this classic, which contains the famous, "God bless us, every one!" now is your chance. Read the original story of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future!
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 2940011885945
Page 5 of 37 Title: The Odyssey
Author: Homer
This is the classic epic set in ancient Greece‐‐the story of man who faces monsters and gods to find his way home after war. A beautiful tale, and one of the foundations of Western Literature.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9781593080099
Title: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Lawrence Sterne
Sterne's book is the most hilarious ride one can hope for in the world of English literature. It breaks every rule and convention of the English novel; it can be called the first postmodern novel, and was written before even modernism had taken shape.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9780141439778
Page 6 of 37 Title: The Power and The Glory
Author: Graham Greene
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9780142437308
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Author: Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court may be the world’s first novel about time travel. But the inspiration to send a modern American through time as well as space sprang directly out of Twain’s long‐standing literary goals.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9781411431997
Page 7 of 37 Title: A Future of an Illusion
Author: Sigmund Freud
In 1927 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis. The Future of an Illusion provoked immediate controversy and has continued to be an important work for anyone interested in the intersection of psychology, religion, and culture.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9780393008319
Title: Travels with Charley
Author: John Steinbeck
With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.
Genre: Classics
ISBN_Number: 9780142000700
Page 8 of 37 Title: The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teensds
Author: Brooke Hauser
These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, which is like most high schools in some ways—its halls are filled with students gossiping, joking, flirting, and pushing the limits of the school’s dress code—but all of the students are recent immigrants learning English.
Genre: Current Events / Politics
ISBN_Number: 9781439163283
Title: A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
Author: Michael Peel
The largest U.S. trading partner in sub‐Saharan Africa, petroleum‐ rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed.
Genre: Current Events / Politics
ISBN_Number: 1569762864
Page 9 of 37 Title: American Rust
Author: Philipp Meyer
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780385527514
Title: The Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450‐pound Bengal tiger.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780156027328
Page 10 of 37 Title: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Author: Robert Alexander
In the turbulent early days of revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik agents herded the deposed Tsar Nicholai II, his family and aides into the basement of a Siberian house and executed them all in a blaze of gunfire. Details of what happened that fateful night have taken decades to emerge, reaching a terrible climax with the 1991 excavation of a mass grave believed to be the one in which some of the members of the Romanov family were buried.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780142003817
Title: All The King's Men
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize‐winning novel traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real‐life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success. Generally considered the finest novel ever written on American politics, All the King's Men is a literary classic.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780156004800
Page 11 of 37 Title: The Power of One
Author: Bryce Courtenay
In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. Peekay's childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780345410054
Page 12 of 37 Title: The Memory of Running: A Novel
Author: Ron McLarty
Meet Smithson “Smithy” Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain‐ smoking, forty‐three‐year‐old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action‐figure factory in Rhode Island. But when Smithy’s life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey. As he pedals across America, he encounters humanity at its best and worst and adventures that are by turns hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary. Along the way, Smithy falls in love and back into life.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0670033634
Title: The Cunning Man
Author: Robertson Davies
Following the mysterious death of Father Hobbs at the high altar on Good Friday, holistic doctor Jonathan Hullah takes a critical look at his past and at the individuals who shaped his life, and reevaluates his personal philosophies.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0‐14‐024830‐7
Page 13 of 37 Title: Balance of Power
Author: James W. Huston
A congressional assistant discovers a provision in the Constitution that could be used to wrest power from the President. A story about military action combined with Washington politics and law.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0‐380‐73159‐2
Title: Rainbow Six
Author: Tom Clancy
Ex‐Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780425170342
Page 14 of 37 Title: Breakfast of Champions
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Comically bizarre and darkly funny, Vonnegut tells the tale of a crazy Midwestern man who goes on a violent rampage after coming to believe that a science fiction novel is actually real.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 978‐0385334204
Title: Coal Black Horse
Author: Robert Olmstead
Dispatched by his mother's ominous premonition, 14‐year‐old Robey Childs sets out on a dangerous quest to find his father who is fighting for the doomed Confederacy. The boy is given two talismans to keep him safe ‐‐ a reversible jacket (one side blue and one side gray) and a magnificent black stallion possessed of preternatural intelligence.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9781565126015
Page 15 of 37 Title: April Morning
Author: Howard Fast
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780553273229
Title: Welcome to the Monkey House
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 978‐0385333504
Page 16 of 37 Title: Portrait of a Spy
Author: Daniel Silva
Haunted by his failure to stop a suicide bomber in London, Gabriel Allon is summoned to Washington and drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American‐born cleric in Yemen who was once a paid CIA asset.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780062072184
Title: Watchmen
Author: Alan Moore,Dave Gibbons
It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half‐insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super‐heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians?
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780930289232
Page 17 of 37 Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‐Time
Author: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‐Tim
Narrated by a fifteen‐year‐old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old‐ fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming‐of‐age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9781400032716
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer,Annie Barrows
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 9780385341004
Page 18 of 37 Title: The Firm
Author: John Grisham
Grisham's gripping fiction debut describes the inner workings of a law firm set up by the Mafia to launder money and concoct tax evasions. Mitchell McDeere, third in his class at Harvard Law, is wooed relentlessly by the prestigious Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert and Locke. Succumbing to the firm's high‐ powered salesmanship, he rejects some of the country's best‐ known firms to join the group, where he is awed by the opulent lifestyle pressed upon him.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0440245923
Title: Accidental Tourist
Author: Anne Tyler
Scarred by grief after their 12‐year‐old son's senseless murder, Macon and Sarah Leary are losing their marriage too. Macon is unable to cope when she leaves him, so he settles down “safe among the people he'd started out with,'' moving back home with two divorced brothers and spinster sister Rose.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0345452003
Page 19 of 37 Title: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN_Number: 0679642595
Title: 1776
Author: David McCullough
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence ‐‐ when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Genre: History
ISBN_Number: 0743226712
Page 20 of 37 Title: We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
Author: David Howarth
The incredible story of a Norwegian commando saved from the Nazis by residents of a small arctic village‐‐an astonishing true story of heroism and endurance.
Genre: History
ISBN_Number: 9781599210636
Title: Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Author: Michael Capuzzo
Close to Shore recounts the terrifying chain of attacks along the New Jersey beaches in the summer of 1916 by a rogue, great white shark.
Genre: History
ISBN_Number: 0‐7679‐0414‐1
Page 21 of 37 Title: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Author: E.B. Sledge
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War."
Genre: History
ISBN_Number: 9780891419068
Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
Genre: Mystery
ISBN_Number: 0‐425‐17651‐7
Page 22 of 37 Title: Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so.
Genre: Psychology / Self Help / Personal
ISBN_Number: 9780307352149
Title: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money ‐ That The Poor And
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad explains the differences and distinctions between how the rich class, and the poor and middle classes manage their money. One of the main significances that were emphasized was "working hard" was different from "working and spending smart".
Genre: Psychology / Self Help / Personal
ISBN_Number: 9781612680002
Page 23 of 37 Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Author: Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
Genre: Psychology / Self Help / Personal
ISBN_Number: 0‐684‐85394‐9
Title: The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born, It's Grown. Here's How.
Author: Daniel Coyle
The Talent Code is a scientific journey proving that great talent is not inherent, but grown through deep‐practice, passion, and proper coaching. It an eye‐opening novel, in that it deconstructs the myth of being "born with it" and describes in detail the blue print for how to create jaw‐dropping talent.
Genre: Psychology / Self Help / Personal
ISBN_Number: 9780553806847
Page 24 of 37 Title: Who Moved My Cheese?
Author: Spencer Johnson
This story is about adjusting attitudes toward change in life, especially at work. Change occurs whether a person is ready or not, but the author affirms that it can be positive.
Genre: Psychology / Self Help / Personal
ISBN_Number: 9780399144462
Title: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern
Author: Edward Dolnick
In a world of chaos and disease, one group of driven, idiosyncratic geniuses envisioned a universe that ran like clockwork. They were the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world.
Genre: Science and Nature
ISBN_Number: 9780061719523
Page 25 of 37 Title: The Darwin Awards 4
Author: Wendy Northcutt
Named after Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards pays homage to those who improve our gene pool…by removing themselves from it.
Genre: Science and Nature
ISBN_Number: 0452288800
Title: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre‐busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell‐slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
ISBN_Number: 9780307887436
Page 26 of 37 Title: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Author: Max Brooks
The story of the Zombie War told through first‐hand experiences of the survivors of the apocalyptic years.
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
ISBN_Number: 13: 978‐0307346605
Title: Ashfall
Author: Mike Mullin
For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence.
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
ISBN_Number: 9781933718552
Page 27 of 37 Title: My Life with the Saints
Author: James Martin
Martin's best‐selling memoir encompasses saints throughout Christian history‐from St. Peter to Dorothy Day, St. Francis of Assisi to Mother Teresa‐and chronicles the author's lifelong relationship with them. His witty, vibrant, and stirring stories enable readers to discover how the saints guide us throughout our earthly journeys and how they help each of us find holiness in our own lives.
Genre: Spirituality
ISBN_Number: 9780829426441
Title: Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Author: Todd Burpo,Lynn Vincent (With),Colton Burpo
Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four‐year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.
Genre: Spirituality
ISBN_Number: 9780849946158
Page 28 of 37 Title: The Celestine Prophecy
Author: James Redfield
In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself ‐‐ insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially; one insight, then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth.
Genre: Spirituality
ISBN_Number: 0‐446‐67100‐2
Title: The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, an
Author: Kevin & Alex Malarkey
In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six‐year‐old son, Alex, suffered an horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex—and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share.
Genre: Spirituality
ISBN_Number: 9781414336077
Page 29 of 37 Title: It’s Not About the Bike
Author: Lance Armstrong
The epic story of Lance Armstrong’s near death from cancer and comeback to win the greatest bike race in the world.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9780425179611
Title: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Author: Michael Lewis
The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams. But over the past four years, the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the best records.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9780393338393
Page 30 of 37 Title: Through My Eyes
Author: Tim Tebow,Nathan Whitaker
As a religion scholar, Tebow’s book is a beautiful and genuine account of how faith and love of God has infused every aspect of his life. It is not over the top, not preachy, and is surprisingly not all that hokey.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9780062007285
Title: The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL
Author: Ross Bernstein
Takes you in‐depth and behind the scenes to explore the history of fighting during hockey games and the honor system behind it.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 1‐57243‐756‐1
Page 31 of 37 Title: Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success
Author: Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola
Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University men’s basketball team, offers 40 short, hard‐hitting essays‐each centered on an important keyword and illustrated with anecdotes from his personal experiences‐that educate and inspire. From the four most important words in life‐”I believe in you”‐to coping with losing, relying on one’s teammates, the importance of discipline, and the rewards of taking pride in one’s work, let Coach K guide you to success the way he guides his team‐with the power of his words.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 044658049X
Title: Season of Life: a Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood
Author: Jeffrey Marx
Jeffrey Marx reconnects with a boyhood hero, former Baltimore Colts star Joe Erhmann, who leads him to discover what being a man is really all about.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 0‐7432‐6974‐8
Page 32 of 37 Title: The Assist: Hoops, Hope and the Game of their Lives
Author: Neil Swidey
The Assist is a captivating narrative of a Boston basketball team, coached by Jack O’Brien, in pursuit of a championship that also drills down into the legacy of desegregation and explores issues of education, family, and race.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 978‐1‐58648‐469‐9
Title: Breaker Boys
Author: David Fleming
The book discusses an American football team, the Pottsville Maroons (1920's) and explores life in coal towns during the early 20th century.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9781933060354
Page 33 of 37 Title: Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Oriole
Author: Burt Solomon
In the 1890s, the legendary Baltimore Orioles of the National League [sic] under the tutelage of manager Ned Hanlon, perfected a style of play known as "scientific baseball," featuring such innovations as the sacrifice bunt, the hit‐ and‐run, the squeeze play, and the infamous Baltimore chop. Its best hitter, Wee Willie Keeler, had the motto "keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't"‐‐which he did.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9780385498821
Title: Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
Author: Mark Kram
When Muhammad Ali met Joe Frazier in Manila for their third fight, their rivalry had spun out of control. The author is a graduate of Calvert Hall. His son, Mark Kram, Jr. is a 1975 Loyola High School graduate.
Genre: Sports
ISBN_Number: 9780060195571
Page 34 of 37 Title: Fever 1793
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson,Lori Earley
A Historical Fiction novel about a young girl named Matilda who goes through a rough time when a terrifying disease reaches town, this story takes place in Philadelphia in the late 1700's.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 9780689848919
Title: Brian’s Winter
Author: Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Winter is an alternate ending to the book Hatchet, exploring what might have happened if 13 year old Brian had not been rescued in the fall, and was forced to survive in the wilderness alone throughout the winter.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 0440227194
Page 35 of 37 Title: Legend
Author: Marie Lu
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen‐ year‐old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen‐ year‐old Day is the country's most wanted criminal.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 039925675X
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Author: John Boyne
Set during World War II, this is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight‐year‐old son of the commander at a concentration camp, whose friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 0385610556
Page 36 of 37 Title: Nothing
Author: Janne Teller
When Pierre‐Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh‐grader leaves his classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre‐Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give up things of importance.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 978‐1416985792
Title: Catching Fire: Hunger Games #2
Author: Suzanne Collins
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
Genre: Young Adult
ISBN_Number: 9780439023498
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