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. A modern, beautiful ghost upon a starless sea. stor y.

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E-BOOK S* GREAT GRAPH I C BOOK S The Ar t of Racing in the Rain, Stein. Funny and Banned Book Club, Sook. Sook is just star ting uplifting stor y of family, love, loyalty, and hope. . . as college in 1983 during civil protests in South Korea only a dog can tell it. and realizes there's a difference between what she The Radium Girls: The Dark Stor y of Amer ica's wants to learn and what the government wants her to Shining Women, Moore. learn. (nf) The Vanishing H alf, Bennett. Identical twin sisters Above the Dreamless Dead: WWI in Poetr y and that grow up in a small, southern black community Comics, Chris Duffy, ed. Trench poetr y and lyrics and r un away at age sixteen. How their past lives created by modern car toonists. (nf) shape them as adults: their families, their Gwenpool Strikes Back, Williams.Gwenpool is communities, and their racial identities. desperate to be in a comic again so she sets out to Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens. Kya, ?marsh unmask Spider-man and see if she can get some real girl,? navigates familial tensions and ostracism and superpowers. suspicion due to her poor upbringing. H eavy Vinyl, vol. 2: Y2K-O!, Usdin. Not only must Uncommon T ype, Hanks. A surprising, intelligent, the girls of Vinyl Destination win Battle of the Bands, and hear twar ming collection of shor t stories. they must also save the (digital) world from Y2K in this fun, '90s notalgia series. Invisible Kingdom, Wilson. In a far way galaxy, a freighter pilot and a religious disciple find themselves AUDI OBOOK S* Photo Credit: Betsy Gray, Class of 2022 in the middle of a conspiracy between the largest Alien I nvasion, Keats. A vir tual game set aboard an employer in the universe. Will they give in or fight? alien space station They Called Us Enemy, Takei. Before he on the Safe Zone, Mar tin. Will No_Idea figure out the Starship Enterprise, actor Takei was a boy str uggling gameplay and make it to the game's safe zone in time, to understand why his family was packing up to live or will he end up trapped in a world filled with vir tual in a horse stable. Follow his journey from ignorance to zombies? L i fe i sn't about righteous anger and finally to activism. (nf,e) The Prank, Har ris. As a series of pranks begin to go f i ndi ng your sel f. Gender Queer , Kobabe. Kobabe?s path to hor ribly wrong, Jordan and her cr ush, Charlie, work understanding comes into focus in this memoir, to discover the cause of the accidents. L i fe i s about illustrated with retro colors and simple line. (nf) The Tur naround, Mar tin. Justin wonders if the I n Waves, AJ Dungo. Stor y of author ?s first love, his new coach has simply whipped high school's worst cr eat i ng your sel f. girlfriend?s passion for sur fing, her heroism in the face baseball team into shape, or if something else is George Ber nard Shaw of cancer, and a primer on the histor y of sur fing.(g, bio) responsible for drastic turnaround. Magic Fish, Nguyen. Ti?n loves his family and his Growing up, Baker. Baker traces his youth in the friends? but Ti?n has a secret he's been keeping from mountains of r ural Virginia. them, and it might change ever ything.

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Ever ything Sad is Untr ue, Nayeri. In an autobiographical novel, ADULT BOOK S FOR TEEN READERS middle-schooler Daniel, for merly Khosrou, tells his unimpressed and at times cr uel classmates about his experiences as an Iranian refugee. The man w ho does not r ea d good book s i s no bet t er t han t he man w ho can't . H ONOR BOOK S Mark Twain Dragon H oops, Yang. Yang found inspiration to write this graphic novel in the men's varsity team at Bishop O'Dowd High School. The games are only a small por tion, though, as readers learn about the histor y of basketball as well as Yang's personal journey. (nf, g) Black Sun, Roanhorse. A tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. We Are Not Free, Chee. Just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, The H ouse in the Cer ulean Sea, Klune. A magical island, a dangerous President Roosevelt issued the Civilian Exclusion Order, forcing the tight task, a burning secret, and a profound experience of discovering an unlikely knit community of Japantown teens and their families to incarceration family in an unexpected place-and realizing that family is yours. camps. Chee deftly manages four teen nar ratives all with a unique voice and The I mpossible First: From Fire to I ce - Crossing Antarctica Alone, experience. Brady. This awe-inspiring memoir reveals how anyone can reject limits, M ORRI S AWARD 2021 overcome immense obstacles, and discover what matters most. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, Backder f. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio I f These Wings Could Fly, McCaley . Thousands of crows have invaded National Guard gunned down unar med college students protesting the Leighton's hometown. Whenever Leighton's father loses his temper and Vietnam War at Kent State University. A moving and troubling stor y about damages a par t of their house, it somehow repairs itself. She encounters the bitter price of dissent-as relevant today as it was in 1970. these mysteries as she faces the decision of whether to leave ever ything The Kids Are Gonna Ask, Anthony. A few years after losing their mother, behind for college or stay to protect her siblings from her dangerous father. the McClair twins use podcasting to search for their biological father. Plain Bad H eroines, Danfor th This Gothic hor ror novel follows the lives of queer women throughout histor y. H ONOR BOOK S Riot Baby, Onyebuchi. Magical realism highlights the injustice, anger, and systemic racism that is prevalent in modern society. Woven in Moonlight, Ibañez. Llacsan King Atoc over took the Illustrian Solutions and Other Problems, Brosh. Humorous stories from [car toonist] kingdom using ancient magic. Ximena is trained assassin who is sent in the Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her ver y bad animals; merciless for mer queen's place to Atoc's kingdom with the goal of faking a treaty. dissection of her own character f laws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; [and] ref lections on the absurdity of modern life. (g) I t Sounded Better in my H ead, Kenwood. This romantic comedy finds We Ride Upon Sticks, Bar r y. The 1989 Danvers High School Field Hockey Natalie with relationship drama. Her parents are getting divorced and her team is sick of losing. Could their town?s gritty histor y sur rounding the two best friends have decided to star t dating. Natalie finds her best friend's Salem Witch Trials and a notebook featuring Emilo Estevez change their older brother, and a budding relationship of her own. luck and their lives? L POETRY Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetr y: And Other Poems Stephen Dobyns: Cemeter y Nights Heidi Erdrich: New Poets of Native Nations Langston Hughes: The Wear y H ues Rupi K aur: The Sun and H er Flowers Mar y Oliver: Devotions Jason Reynolds: Long Way Down Claudia Rankine. Citizen: An Amer ican Lyr ic Tracy K. Smith: Life on Mars Jacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming Ocean Vuong: Night Sky with Exit Wounds I T'S NOT EASY BEI NG A TEENAGER Bear town, Backman. A junior hockey team close to winning the championship has a scandal that divides all involved. Clap When You Land, Acevedo. Award winning novel-in-verse about two sisters who lose their father but find each other. Photo Credit: Emilie Dumas, Class of 2022 The Girl with the Louding Voice, Dare. The unforgettable, inspiring stor y of a teenage girl in a r ural Nigerian village who longs to get an #OWNVOI CES education and find her "louding voice" in order to speak up for herself. El Deafo, Bell. A childhood illness renders Bell deaf. She focuses on the Goodbye Days, Zentner. The after math of a text message Carl sent to his str uggles and insecurities of star ting school and making friends. (g,nf) friend may have been the cause of a fatal car crash. H ave Dog, will Travel: A Poet's Jour ney, Kuusisto. A blind poet describes The Grace Year , Liggett. The experiences of 16-year old girls banished his relationship with his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave for a year and forced to fend for themselves in the wilderness. (a) him a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.(bio) Green, Graham-Felsen. David is one of the handful of white kids in his The H ouse on Mango Street, Cisneros. This book tells the stor y of middle school who strives to make friends as he negotiates around bullies. Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quar ter of Life of Pi, Mar tel. A thrilling stor y of a boy sur viving all odds with an Chicago, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. unlikely companion by his side. Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's, Robison. Not until he was I am Not your Per fect Mexican Daughter , Sanchez. Laugh-out-loud for ty did Robison learn that he had the for m of autism called Asperger funny contemporar y finding your self amid the pressures expectations, syndrome. That understanding transfor med the way he saw himself--and the and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. world. (bio) Other Broken Things, Desir. A teen str uggles through alcoholism and Rain of Gold, Villaseñor. This is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American stor y of recover y. pover ty, immigration, str uggle and success. (bio) Wayward Son, Rowel. Three friends take a road trip through the There There, Orange. A fast paced stor y about violence and recover y, hope American West in a classic Mustang conver tible in search of their for mer and loss, identity and power, and the beauty and despair woven into the classmate, encountering considerable trouble and magic as they go. histor y of a nation and its people. L CL ASSI CS AND FAVORI TES FI CTI ON NONFI CTI ON 1984, Or well. The classic of dystopian ?future.? Angela?s Ashes, McCour t. Growing up 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne. Finding impoverished in Ireland. Captain Nemo. Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre, Fawkes. Tells Catch-22, Heller. Details the effor ts of a captain in the life stor y of novelist Charlotte Bronte from her the US Ar my Air Force, to avoid flying any more mother ?s death when Charlotte was five years old up combat missions during WII. to the publication of Jane Eyre. Circe, Miller. Bold and subversive retelling of The Devil in the White City, Larson. World?s Fair Homer ?s infamous divine sorceress. murders in 1893. The Bear, Faulkner. Coming of age, family, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: wilderness. A Friendship That Changed the World, Coleman. Chronicles the friendship of the women Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya. Chicano tale in 1940s who spearheaded the fight for women?s suffrage and New Mexico. equality. The Cur ious I ncident of the Dog in the The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Stor y of War and Nighttime, Haddon. Autistic teen overcomes his What Comes After, Clemantine Wamariya and fears, discovers family secrets, solves a myster y. (a) Elizabeth Weil Tara Westover. (bio/ autobio) Dracula, Stoker. The classic hor ror novel. Photo Credit: Nicole Meschi, Class of 2022 H ave A Little Faith, Albom. An introspective man Ethan Frome, Whar ton. Dead mar riage, hopeful finds faith again after a rabbi asks him to deliver his illicit love, tragedy. eulogy. Frankenstein, Shelley. A scientist's creation H idden Figures, Shetterly. The bright, becomes a monster. (e) mathematical minds of a few women are the real geniuses behind the scenes of U.S. space exploration. God H elp the Child, Mor rison. Childhood (bio) suffering, adult str uggle. That 's t he t hi ng H umans of New York, Stanton. Captivating The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah. A troubled pictures and inter views. family moves to Alaska in a last ditch effor t to about book s. sur vive as a family by deciding to homestead there. Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich. The challenge of The H ear t I s a Lonely H unter, McCullers. Misfits They l et you making it in America. in Georgia mill town. Relativity, Einstein. Clear, concise, elegant A H ero of Our Time, Ler montov. Best introduction t r avel w i t hout explanation of the theor y. to great Russian lit. A Room of One?s Own, Woolf. Inquir y into society A H undred Years of Solitude, Marquez. Mystical movi ng your feet . and ar t and sexism. epic. Walden, Thoreau. On simple living in natural Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut. WWII bombing of J humpa L ahi r a sur roundings. Dresden, an eloquent and deeply funny plea against We Should All Be Feminists, Adiche. Inclusive butcher y in the ser vice of authority. feminism.

L H I STORY & WAR Dress Codes: H ow the Laws of Fashion Made H istor y, Ford. Mr. Ford takes fashion seriously, in a most enter taining but infor mative way. (nf) Fire and Forget, Gallagher. American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Fountains of Silence, Sepetys. 1957 post-Civil War Spain: An 18-year-old American aspiring photojournalist uncovers disturbing tr uths about dictator Francisco Franco?s fascist regime while visiting Madrid with his family. Four H undred Souls: A Community of H istor y of Afr ican America: 1619-2019, Edited by Kendi and Blain. A sur vey of the first four hundred years Photo Credit:I sabel Doremus, Class of 2022 of the African American presence in America. (nf) Grant, Chernow. The greatest general of the Civil War, committed himself as FANTASY & SCI ENCE FI CTI ON President to pursuing racial equality through legislation and militar y 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke. On the moon, an enigma is uncovered. For action.(nf) the first time, men are sent deep into our solar system. But before they can A Prayer for the Dying, O?Nan. A Civil War veteran appears to be the only reach their destination, things begin to go ver y wrong. figure of authority left in a small town str uck by a diphtheria epidemic. Can he A Complicated Love Stor y Set in Space, Hutchinson. gripping, romantic, save his family, let alone the townspeople? and wildly surprising novel about two boys lost in space tr ying to find their Polio: An American Stor y, Oshinsky. A comprehensive look at the disease, way home? while falling in love. its spread and cultural impact in the United States, and the competition for the Contact, Sagan. An unknown entity makes contact with humanity, bringing cure. (nf) many more questions than answers. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Mor ris. A prisoner becomes the tattooist at the The Mar tian, Weir. Man?s will to sur vive and ingenuity against the concentration camps in Auschwitz. unapologetic environment of Mars. (e) We Rule the Night, Bar tlett. A combination of fantasy and histor y inspired by Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Washburn. Folds the legends of Hawaiian the Russian women pilots who flew in combat during WWII. gods into a family saga: a stor y of exile and the pursuit of salvation. SPORTS & ADVENTURE Basketball: A Love Stor y, MacMullan, Bar tholomew and Klores. A ?must-read? of the spor t featuring inter views of the great players. (nf) Blowback ?07, Meehl. Vibrant time travel fantasy features football. Bor n to Run: A H idden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World H as Never Seen. McDougall. Engage and inspire your mind and body. (nf) The Boys in the Boat, Brown. Rowing crew goes for the gold. (nf) The Fight, Mailer. Ali-For man boxing match and its deeper symbolism. (nf) The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, Parssinen. High school basketball star Photo Credit: John Lambo, Class of 2021 and the year that alters her life in a small Texas town. L TH RI L L ERS & M YSTERI ES The Friend, Nunez. Sure to be a popular read for those who like dogs, appreciate mysteries, and desire to ponder the meaning of companionship, while exploring the meaning of loss, comfor t, and memor y. Firekeeper's Daughter , Boulley. A crime thriller featuring an Ojibwe, who is on the way to college when family matters sidetrack her and she becomes an infor mant in a dr ug investigation. I n the Lake of the Woods, O?Brien. Myster y, memories of war, secrets. Lear ning to Swear in America, Kennedy. Techno-thriller, loads of laughs. The Lie Tree, Hardinge. Historical novel disguised as a murder myster y. Mexican Gothic, Moreno-Garcia. An isolated mansion. A chillingly Photo Credit: Mor iah Morgan, Class of 2023 charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. A classic, gothic hor ror set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. The Outsider , Steven King. A hor rific thriller that will keep you on the SCI ENCE, TECH NOL OGY, edge of your seat. ENGI NEERI NG & M ATH The Ar t of Mathematics, King. King shows the accessible beauty of mathematics. Feynman, Ottaviani, illus. Myrick. Perhaps the most famous personality of nuclear physics: the bongo-playing, safe-cracking, defiantly curious Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman in this graphic biography. (g,nf) The H ot Zone: The Ter rifying Tr ue Stor y of the Ebola Vir us, Preston. H umble Pi, Parker. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team. Mind and Matter - A Life in Math and Football, Urschel. Interesting and easy to read autobiography of an NFL player that is also a math Ph.D. candidate at MIT. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migrator y Birds, Weidensaul. Describes these mar vels of nature while introducing readers to scientists and bird lovers who are tr ying to preser ve these migrator y patterns in the face of climate change. Photo Credit: Russ McDonough, Class of 2022 Cl ass of 2025, Ent er i ng Gr ade 9 Cl ass of 2023, Ent er i ng Gr ade 11 *The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines. (a) *Cat?s Cradle, Kur t Vonnegut. (e) * All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doer r. (e) * I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot *Garbology: Our Dir ty Love Affair With Trash, Edward Humes. (nf, e, a) by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai. (nf, e) * The I nvention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd. (e) * We Were Liars, E. Lockhar t. (e, a) * One Day in the Life of I van Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (e) Apologize, Apologize!, Elizabeth Kelly Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan I n Cold Blood, Tr uman Capote. (nf, e) H alf Brother, Kenneth Oppel Lark and Ter mite, Jayne Anne Phillips The H ouse of the Scor pion, Nancy Far mer Never Let Me Go, K azuo Ishiguro. (e) I am the Great H orse, K atherine Rober ts Stop-Time, Frank Conroy Swimming to Antarctica, Lynne Cox.(nf, e) Tinkers, Paul Harding The Teacher ?s Funeral, Richard Peck The Thing About Jelly Fish, Ali Benjamin Cl ass of 2024 Ent er i ng Gr ade 10 Cl ass of 2022, Ent er i ng Gr ade 12

* Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi. (e, a) * The Br ief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz. (e) * Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the I nvention of The Gr eat * Growing Up, Russell Baker. (nf, e, a) Gat sby, Sarah Churchwell. (nf, e) * Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel(NOT an Eng 2 choice, for Adv Eng ONLY (e, a) * What is the What, Dave Eggers. (e) * Super position, David Walton. (e) Dead Wake, Erik Larson. (nf) The Absolutely Tr ue Diar y of a Par t-Time I ndian, Sher man Alexie Escape from Camp 14: One Man?s Remarkable Odyssey from Nor th Korea A Great and Ter rible Beauty, Libba Bray. (e) to Freedom in the West, Blaine Harden. (nf, a) The Cheating Culture,David Callahan. (nf) Machine Man, Max Bar r y H alf Broke H orses: A Tr ue-life Novel, Jeannette Walls. (e) Room, Emma Donoghue The I mpossible Knife of Memor y, Laurie Halse Anderson Train Dreams: A Novella, Denis Johnson Lost H or izon, James Hilton Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons The Stor ied Life of A. J. Fikr y: A Novel, Gabrielle Zevin Who I s Mark Twain?, Mark Twain. (nf, e)

St udent s ent er i ng 9t h, 10t h, and 11t h gr ade r ead t hr ee book s: one ast er i sk ed book fr om t hei r cl ass l i st , a second fr om t hei r cl ass l i st (w i t h or w i t hout an ast er i sk ), and a t hi r d fr om t he J BH S Summer Readi ng L i st .St udent s w ho el ect t o compl et e t he 12t h gr ade summer r eadi ng r equi r ement s shoul d fol l ow t he same pr ocess: one ast er i sk ed book , a second fr om t he class l i st (w i t h or w i t hout an ast er i sk ), and a t hi r d fr om t he J BH S Summer Readi ng L i st .Ther e ar e addi t i onal r equi r ement s for seni or s and st udent s i n Adv. Eng. I I , AP L ang., and AP L i t . All summer reading lists are also atjoelbarlowps.org.In addition, the Easton Public Library and Redding?s Mark Twain Library have all the books on this page as well as many of the other books on the JBHS Summer Reading List. If there's a book not found on this list but is comparable, please reach out to Mr. Huminski at [email protected].