LIST OF BOOKS BY TEACHER FOR RISING 10TH, 11TH, AND 12TH GRADERS MS. ACTON (HEALTH/PHYSICAL MR. BAKER (TECH ED) – Running on EDUCATION) – What to Expect: The Empty : How the Democratic and Toddler Years by Arlene Eisenberg, Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Heidi Murkof, & Sandra Hathaway; and Future and What Americans Can Do The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein about It by Peter G. Peterson For students who have children or are Acclaimed by all sides of the political spectrum, expecting, this pair of books ofers, on the one this 2005 work not only traces the deterioration hand, very practical and helpful advice, and on of America’s finances but ofers solutions. This the other an entertaining introduction to the national bestseller is required reading for importance of reading with your children. everyone concerned with America’s long-term economic survival. In clear and concise prose, MR. ADAMS (ED CLUSTER) – Fourth and Peterson ofers America not only a vision but One by Joe Gibbs with Jerry B. Jenkins the practical steps by which to ensure our children’s economic future. The 1991 memoir of beloved Redskins coach, NASCAR owner, and spiritual role model Joe Gibbs, this heartfelt autobiography tells of the DR. BERMAN (COUNSELING SERVICES) – struggles and challenges he faced on his road Animals Make Us Human by Temple to success in varied arenas. Grandin Temple Grandin, an animal scientist, has a MS. ADAMSON (ADMINISTRATION) – unique understanding of how animals think and Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected feel. Animals have feelings, she argues, and Path to Almost Everything by Geneen humans need to stimulate animals’ positive feelings while ensuring that they are free from Roth negative emotions. Anyone with an interest in The way you eat is inseparable from your core animals should find this book fascinating! beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you MR. BERRY (SOCIAL STUDIES) – Hard Times believe you are, how you eat tells all. The world is on your plate. [recommended for Grade 12] by Charles Dickens . explores the difculty of livin’ la vida loca in industrial England and what it was like to have MR. AUSTIN (SOCIAL STUDIES) – The Tao of a teacher with the name M’Choakumchild. Personal Leadership: The Ancient Way to Success by Diane Dreher MS. BLUMBERG (ED CLUSTER) – The An insightful handbook for developing Whistling Season by Ivan Doig leadership skills, reflecting on Eastern and The Whistling Season takes place in Montana in Western philosophical and ideological styles of the early 1900s. It is a heart-warming story of leadership. Sophisticated level of reading/ three boys and their widowed father who hires writing. [recommended for Grade 12] a housekeeper to help them out after their mother dies. Rose, the housekeeper, and her MS. AYER (ESOL) – Dreams from My brother changes the boys’ lives in unexpected Father by Barack Obama ways. It is a story that will make you laugh and Fascinating yet easy to read bio of President make you cry and will definitely capture your Obama. He chronicles his life in Kansas with his heart. grandparents, life in Indonesia with his mother and step dad, back to Hawaii, then to Chicago. MS. BOUVÉ (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) – During this journey he searches for his place in Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende black America as a son of a white American mother and a black African father. [You may encounter this book in your English 11 class.] 1 An orphan raised in Chile treks to California dead. It’s payback time as Valdez seeks during the Gold Rush of 1849. Her adventures revenge. —in English! MS. CHIANG (SCIENCE) – The Unthinkable: MS. BOYLE (FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE) Who Survives When Disaster Strikes— – A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson And Why by Amanda Ripley An excellent story about hiking the Appalachian The Unthinkable is a fascinating, in-depth look Trail. Never a dull moment with the two at human behavior under extreme pressure. Its characters who decide to hike the 2,100-mile gut-wrenching stories span the full spectrum of trail! A true story about the need for action under duress, from panic to heroism. conservation of America’s last great wilderness and the laugh-out-loud encounters of these MS. COCKER (CAREER PREP) – The Art of two guys. Great read for anyone interested in adventure, saving the environment, or just Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein learning more about hiking the A.T. Enzo knows he is diferent from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has MS. BOZZO (ENGLISH) – Pillars of the Earth educated himself by watching television by Ken Follett extensively, and by listening very closely to the Historical fiction. International best-seller! In words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and- twelfth-century England and with the building coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo of a Gothic cathedral as a backdrop, this epic has gained tremendous insight into the human tale incorporates intrigue, power, revenge, condition, and he sees that life, like racing, betrayal, and love. If you like history, isn’t simply about going fast. Using the architecture, art, power struggles, and romance techniques needed on the race track, one can in a spellbinding tale — read this. successfully navigate all of life’s ordeals. [recommended for grades 11 and 12] MS. COLEMAN (ADMINISTRATION) – The th DR. BROOKS (SCIENCE) – The 13 Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, See the description by Ms. Simons, who is also Fire and Phosphorus by John Emsley reading this book. Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by nineteenth-century MS. COMINOS (ED CLUSTER) – The Clan of industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, phosphorus is one of nature’s the Cave Bear by Jean Auel deadliest- and most fascinating- creations. Have you ever wondered what daily life was like From murders-by-phosphorus where the for the cavemen? Read this book and be truly bodies glowed green, to the match factory fascinated. strike that helped end child labor in England, to the irony of the World War II firebombing of MS. CONSIDINE (SCIENCE) – If I Stay by Hamburg, to even deadlier compounds derived Gayle Forman from phosphorus today, the 13th Element While in a coma following an auto accident that weaves together a rich tableau of brilliant and killed her parents and her brother, 17-year-old oddball characters, social upheavals, and Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with curious, bizarre, and horrific events that her grief or join the rest of her family in death. comprise the surprising 300-year history of nature’s most nefarious element. MS. COREN (SCIENCE) – Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson MR. CANGELOSI (MATH) – Valdez is Mortenson’s best-seller Three Cups of Tea, Coming by Elmore Leonard introduced his commitment to peace through Classic Western: Bob Valdez is a part-time education and became a book-club constable who is forced into a situation that phenomenon. He now continues the story of leads to the killing of an innocent man. Valdez how the Central Asia Institute (CAI) built tries to get those responsible to pay the man’s schools in northern Afghanistan. Descriptions widow, but Valdez is assaulted and left for of the harsh geography and more than one 2 near-death experience impress readers as new hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of faces join Mortenson’s loyal “Dirty Dozen” and a terrible afiction that is slowly stealing the they carefully plot a course of school-building community’s soul. through the Badakshan province and Wakhan corridor. Mortenson writes of nothing less than MS. EDWARDS (MATH) – A Lesson Before saving the future, and his adventure is light years beyond most attempts. Dying by Ernest J. Gaines What happens to us in life is sometimes unfair and painful. But it is our attitude and response MS. CRONE (ED CLUSTER) – Firefly Lane to life’s situations that determines the by Kristin Hannah outcome. What pain are you feeling from life? The book centers on the friendship of two What is your attitude about it? [You may women and the direction their lives take during encounter this book in your English 11 class.] high school, college, and adulthood. While both women are driven by diferent goals and are complete opposites, their friendship persists MR. EISENHOWER (MUSIC) – The Pixar over a lifetime. Touch by David A. Price The making of a company: the rags-to-riches MS. DAVIES (MATH) – Twilight by story of Pixar Animation Studios. Interviews and Stephanie Meyer stories about the people who created Toy Story, Up, Cars, Finding Nemo, and other films. What makes a book so good that students want to read it in math class? Why did MVP devote a whole Friday special to this addiction? Do rainy MR. EVANS (ADMINISTRATION) – Twilight climates afect intellectual development? Ms. by Stephenie Meyer Davies wants to know what she has been See the description by Ms. Davies, who is also missing, and will attempt to finish Twilight this reading this book. summer. Vampires that even Bufy cannot eliminate, high school love drama, severe climate issues, really cute protagonists with red MS. FIALLO (COUNSELING SERVICES) – The eyes ... this has got to be a page-turner. Come Help by Kathryn Stockett enter the vampire world of Forks, WA with us.... Miss Eugenia Phelan (“Skeeter”) is a young woman of privilege who enjoys her fellow Junior Leaguers but sometimes finds their ways at MS. DEAN (HEALTH/PHYSICAL EDUCATION) odds with her own principles. Minny, Miss Celia, – Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn Aibileen, and Yule May are maids employed by In the secretive world where fearless men and Skeeter’s friends.