The Joel Barlow High School 2021 Summer Reading Brochure
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The J oel Bar low H i gh School 2021 Summer Readi ng Br ochur e Summer is one of those exciting oppor tunities in your high school career when you can choose your own reading: a chance for you to decide what new worlds you?ll visit, what unusual characters you might meet, or what new philosophies you might consider. We hope to spark your reading interest with topics that will no doubt dominate the summer news, as well as plenty of great fiction to help you escape. We have included titles recommended by librarians; suggestions from JBHS students, staff and faculty; literar y prize lists that celebrate a host of different perspectives and identities; and books of all kinds about fascinating topics like the universe, business, love, and war. So browse through this brochure, select some titles that interest you, chat with your friends about them, read online reviews, and then get down to the fun business of reading. In the simple act of continuing your intellectual journey, you?ll be exercising your mind during the summer hiatus, growing your knowledge of contemporar y issues, or indulging in the journey of imagination and creativity. Any way you frame it, each book you choose has the potential to better allow you to understand yourself and the complex world around you, to suppor t the philosophies that guide you or challenge the way you see the world. Like Puck?s epilogue, we offer this list with no guarantee that it will not offend. Rather, we are cer tain there is something in ever y entr y to offend someone or some cause. And that is the welcome challenge of reading, of thinking: to step back and consider the world from another point of view. All of the titles are on this list because someone in this diverse Barlow learning community recommended them. These are our suggestions to star t you reading and thinking. Enjoy your summer? vacationing, relaxing, and reading! nf = nonfiction g = graphic e = available through JBHS Library Learning Commons' EBook collection Photo Credit: Gianna Ayala Class of 2023 a = available through JBHS Library Learning Commons' audiobook collection FACULT Y & STAFF FAVORI TES FAVORI TES FROM FI CTI ON YOUR FRI ENDS I N COL L EGE READI NG Mr. Franco: Dune, Herber t. An exploration of political and societal dynamics in an alien world that is close to ours than ever before. FI CTI ON Mr. Fricker: Anansi Boys, Gaiman. The old world gods in modern time. Santiago Calderon: The H obbit, Tolkien. Chock full of elves, dragons, and a world brimming with life that is told in a f luid nar rative which makes it Ms. Fulton: Lilitha's Brood, Butler. Aliens genetically merge with humans clear why Tolkien is hailed as on of the grates fantasy writers of all time. after a nuclear disaster on Ear th. Leyli Ghavami: The Luminaries, Catton. A series of inter woven nar ratives Ms. Gale: Pride and Prejudice, Austen. "It is a tr uth universally that reveal the stor y of a young man and woman during the New Zealand acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for tune, must be in gold r ush. want of a wife." Breezy Hayes: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Ms. Goldstein: Small Great Things, Picoult. A nurse and the lawyer H ome, Cranor and Fink. She hor rifyingly haunts, guides, and sabotages. defending her must gain each other's tr ust and find that what they have been taught their whole lives may be wrong. Jack K ane: The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien. An epic high fantasy novel set in Middle-ear th and is a sequel to The Hobbit. Mr. Huminski: The Nickel Boys, Whitehead. A poignant and har rowing investigation into a Florida boarding school and its infamous 111-year Kristen Kuczmarski: The Silent Patient, Michaelides. A psychotherapist histor y. (g) takes interest in a patient who has not spoken since killing her husband. (e) Mrs. Keeney: A Children's Bible: A Novel, Millet. A demonstration that Erica Pohlig: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Austen and when you have to save the world, don't look to the adults. Grahame-Smith. Takes the classic romance novel and spins it into a thrilling stor y of love, family and fighting the undead. Mrs. Neiger: The Midnight Librar y, Haig. Each book shows Nora the Hannah Stroud: Divergent, Roth. In a world divided into different sections, life she could have had. Tris belongs in multiple. She is hunted and fights to sur vive as a result. Dr. Pin: The Vanishing H alf, Bennett. Follow the lives of twin sisters Gwen Kovac: The Memor y Keeper's Daughter , Edwards. A father secret- growing up in the segregated South from the 1950s-1990s. Explores how ively separates his daughter born with Down syndrome from her twin individuals define themselves and the impact of choices made. brother and mother. Mrs. Pinsky: The Water Dancer , Coates. An unconventional tale of the Underground Railroad. NONFI CTI ON Readi ng i s a di scount t i ck et t o ever yw her e. Ms. Darlington: Untamed, Doyle. Inspirational memoir that encourages you Mar y Schmich to live the life you want and to be who you want to be. Ms. Desmarais: A Mighty Long Way: My Jour ney to Justice at Little Rock Central H igh School, LaNeire. (bio) NONFI CTI ON Mr. Light: Civilized to Death, Ryan. Where did it all go wrong? Grace Grigg: Assata: An Autobiography, Shakur. Set in the 1970's, Assata Mr. Smith: Lear ning H ow to Lear n, Oakley and Sejnowski. This is what describes her life as she fights for equality and fairness when it comes to the the "smar t kids" have always known. The trick is actually using these justice system, the prison systems, and society in general. strategies. Caden Levitt: The Power of Letting Go: H ow to Drop Ever ything That's Mrs. Staron: Enough As She is: H ow to H elp Girls Move Beyond H olding You Back, Purkiss. I mpossible Standards of Success to Live H ealthy, H appy and Charlie Prather: When breath Becomes Air, K alanithi. An autobiography Fulfilling Lives, Simmons. of a neurosurgeon who slowly loses his battle with lung cancer. L TH I S YEAR'S GOOD READS FROM OUR OWN J BH S FROM TH E EASTON AND L I BRARY COM M ONS M ARK T WAI N L I BRARI ES Apple (Skin to the Core), Ganswor th. An enrolled All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, Taylor. member of the Onandaga Nation, revisits his The last book in this saga of the valiant Logans. A childhood and teen years spent on a Tuscarora family that str uggles to succeed in deepest reser vation in the ambitions and searing memoir Mississippi, whose members move away for a better told in verse and accompanied by original ar t. (bio) life only to return when the Civil Rights movement Check, Please, Ukazu. Hilarius and stir ring begins. coming-of-age stor y about hockey, bros, and tr ying to Elatsoe, Little Badger. A seventeen-year-old Lapan find yourself in the best four years of your life. Apache girl navigates through family secretes to find Circling the Sun, McLain. An English woman's out why her beloved cousin was murdered. adventures in Kenya in the 1920s. H amnet, O'Far rell. A speculative histor y of the life The I sland of Sea Women, See. Introduces readers of Shakespeare, focusing on his wife and how the to the remarkably strong and spirited female divers death of his young son affected his family and his of Jeju Island. work. Little Fires Ever ywhere, Ng. Themes of class, The Mission, A Tr ue Stor y, Brown. Where is individuality vs. community, and motherhood play NASA headed next? To Europa, one of the many out along with a subplot about the contested moons of Jupiter where another for m of life may adoption of a Chinese baby by a local family. exist. Feel the enthusiasm and excitement conveyed by Brown of the many men and women focused on The Lovely Bones, Seabold. A stor y of a young girl this goal. (nf) who is murdered and who tells her stor y from her heaven. Not So Pure and Simple, Giles. After signing a "Purity Pledge," a young man is thrown into the Muse of Nightmares, Taylor. Sarai has lived and chaos of finding out what it is he really wants - and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. more impor tantly what the girl of his dreams wants. She believed she knew ever y hor ror...but she was wrong. Project H ail Mar y, Weir. A Hail Mar y pass, in football, is a last-minute, long pass with desperate The Only Good I ndians, Jones. Equal par ts hope of success. Ryland is shot into outer space to psychological hor ror and cutting social commentar y tr y and stop the sun from cooling down. An on identity politics and the American Indian edge-of-your-seat nar rative, with quite a bit of experience. microbiology and physics mixed in. Photo Credit: Gianna Ayala, Class of 2023 Scythe, Shuster man. Two teens chosen to be scythes Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child that end lives in a per fect unending world. Soldier to Ambassador of Peace, Duany. A The Starless Sea, Morgenstein. A timeless love Sudanese boy's intense journey from being a "lost stor y set in a secret underground world?a place of boy" to having a beautiful new life of giving back.(bio) pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail Watch Over Me, La Cour.