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A N T I - R A C I S M R E A D I N G L I S T F O R T E E N S What is Anti-Racism? Anti-Racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating systemic racism and social injustices that exist in our society. At Piscataway Public Library, that means we are reviewing our collections and programs to make sure we are being inclusive and respectful. Full statement available here. Fiction The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo All American Boys, Jason Reynolds With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo and Brendan Kiely Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds The Crossover, Kwame Alexander Miles Morales Spider-Man, Jason Solo, Kwame Alexander Reynolds Swing, Kwame Alexander Opposite of Always, Justin A. Reynolds Black Panther, Vol 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates X: A Novel, Ilyasah Shabazz New Kid, Jerry Craft Dear Martin, Nic Stone Monday's Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson Jackpot, Nic Stone Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James On the Come Up, Angie Thomas I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, Kimberly The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas Jones The Sun is Also A Star, Nicola Yoon Tristan Strong, Kwame Mbalia Black Enough, Ibi Zoobi Slay, Brittney Morris My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, Ibi Dear Haiti, Love Alaine, Maika Moulite Zoobi Monster, Walter Dean Myers Nonfiction March Book One, John Lewis Becoming, Michelle Obama Stamped, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson All included titles are available on eLibraryNJ with your Piscataway Public Library card. .

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Grade 8 – Summer Work
Grade 8 – Summer Work Students entering eighth grade are required to read at least THREE books and are encouraged to work on math skills over the summer. Students are expected to come to school in September ready to actively engage in discussions about these texts. Unless noted, families must either purchase or borrow their own copies of books. Digital format (Kindle) is acceptable, as is audiobook accompaniment for readers who beneﬁt from it. Many digital books are accessible through Park's Digital Library: Sora and Hoopla via the Boston Public Library, available to all Massachusetts residents. Also, check out the Summer Reading Ideas page from the Librarians. To strengthen the home-and-school connection, you are invited (but by no means required) to read these selections alongside your child. Most of all, please join us in promoting reading as a wonderful way to relax, and enjoy the summer. English 4. At least ONE podcast. Listen on any platform. Select from following list: Students entering eighth grade should read a minimum of Grammar Girl - any 8 episodes THREE books over the summer and listen to ONE podcast. Harry Potter and the Sacred Text - at least 3 chapters from any 1. At least ONE choice from the Grade 8 Summer Poetry season (you must have read or be reading Harry Potter!) List. Students should make mental note of poems which appeal to them in style or content. Select from the following list: Have You Heard of George’s Podcast - any 4 contiguous episodes Maya Angelou: I Shall Not Be Moved Song Exploder - any 4 episodes Billy Collins: Sailing Around the Room, New and Selected Poems The Slowdown - any 8 episodes Emily Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One Two Princes - any season Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems Note: The Grade 8 curriculum explores themes of social issues and human rights.
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Black History Month Book List-Teen Services
Black History Month Reading List Teen Fiction Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo * The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo *# With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo * Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi * Swing by Kwame Alexander * The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta * Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron * Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown * A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown * A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell * The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton * Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert * The Revolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert * The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert * Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles * * Available via library streaming & download services # Disponible en Español Black History Month Reading List Teen Fiction (cont.) Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis * Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis * Legendborn by Tracy Deonn * The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow * Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper * Pet by Akwaeke Emezi * I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Now That I've Found You by Kristina Forest * Dream Country by Shannon Gibney See No Color by Shannon Gibney * Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles * Spin by Lamar Giles * The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed * Available via library strea ming & download services # Disponible en Español Black History Month Reading List Teen Fiction (cont.) Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko * Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh Dread Nation by Justina Ireland * Allegedly by Tiffany D.
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Reading Black Lives Matter
Reading Black Lives Matter Over the last few months there has been significant media coverage of the Black Lives Matter campaign. This is a good time then, for those of us in education to reflect on our practice and ask ourselves how we can promote genuine inclusion, equality and be pro- actively anti-racist. One area that always demands scrutiny is the curriculum. What is absent and excluded sends a strong message. To that end, the English team at CPA have been creating a new English Curriculum and making sure it includes positive and diverse representations of young Black people by contemporary writers. Some of the books we have chosen to include are listed below. I hope you’ll be as excited as we are by the choices we’ve made. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Michael waits in the stage wings, wearing a pink wig, pink fluffy coat and black heels. One more step will see him illuminated by spotlight. He has been on a journey of bravery to get here, and he is almost ready to show himself to the world in bold colours ... Can he emerge as The Black Flamingo? The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community.
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Printz Award Winners
The White Darkness The First Part Last Teen by Geraldine McCaughrean by Angela Johnson YF McCaughrean YF Johnson 2008. When her uncle takes her on a 2004. Bobby's carefree teenage life dream trip to the Antarctic changes forever when he becomes a wilderness, Sym's obsession with father and must care for his adored Printz Award Captain Oates and the doomed baby daughter. expedition becomes a reality as she is soon in a fight for her life in some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Postcards From No Man's Winners Land American Born Chinese by Aidan Chambers by Gene Luen Yang YF Chambers YGN Yang 2003. Jacob Todd travels to 2007. This graphic novel alternates Amsterdam to honor his grandfather, between three interrelated stories a soldier who died in a nearby town about the problems of young in World War II, while in 1944, a girl Chinese Americans trying to named Geertrui meets an English participate in American popular soldier named Jacob Todd, who culture. must hide with her family. Looking for Alaska A Step From Heaven by John Green by Na An YF Green YF An 2006. 16-year-old Miles' first year at 2002. At age four, Young Ju moves Culver Creek Preparatory School in with her parents from Korea to Alabama includes good friends and Southern California. She has always great pranks, but is defined by the imagined America would be like search for answers about life and heaven: easy, blissful and full of death after a fatal car crash. riches. But when her family arrives, The Michael L.
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What Will Your Students Read?
What will your students read? HARPER1STYEAR.COM Dear First-Year Administrator, We’re proud to feature new books and authors for your common book program and first-year seminars in this catalog. As we continue along the road to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize that there may be uncertainty and/or changes in the coming school year. We’ll try to be as flexible as we can to meet any challenges you may be facing. At Harper1stYear.com, you’ll find additional resources as well as our teaching materials and podcast interviews with our authors. We hope that you’ll also think of us as a resource. Need sample copies? You can reach us at [email protected] or 212.207.7546. For titles not yet published, we’re happy to provide advance physical and/or e-book copies, subject to availability. We’re happy to suggest titles, alert our Speakers Bureau about your request for a live or virtual author visit, and help coordinate your book order with our special sales group. If you would like to hear from us on a monthly basis, please email us at [email protected]—and we’ll sign you up for our FYE e-newsletter, where we highlight new titles and offer free sample copies.* Sincerely, Diane Burrowes Michael Fynan Kim Racon Harper1stYear.com *Free Samples for Freshman Common Book Committees To request free samples copies of the titles in this catalog—or other HarperCollins titles—for your common book committee members, please email us at [email protected] or give us a call at 212-207-7546.
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The Struggle of Black People to Avoid Stereotypes In
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Elizabeth Acevedo's
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High School Smorgasbord for 2021
With the Fire on High By Elizabeth Acevedo Citation: Acevedo, Elizabeth. With the Fire on High. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. 389 p. (Grades 9 and up). Annotation: Deciding what to do after high school is difficult, but Emoni Santiago knows what her passion is: cooking. When a new elective opens up, Emoni has to take Culinary Arts. However, Emoni has a daughter, Emma, and she relies on her Abuela for so much. Can Emoni find the balance between school, family, and her future, or what will she have to sacrifice? Booktalk: "Since my earliest memory, I imagined I would be a chef one day." Emoni Santiago is a natural in the kitchen. She grew up watching cooking shows and experimenting with food at every opportunity. Growing up she cooked for her 'Buela, whom she lives with, but now she cooks for her two year old daughter, Emma, as well. While she has the instincts for cooking, she’s never been properly trained, so when the Culinary Arts: Spain Immersion elective opens up at school, it's a chance she can't resist. Not everything is how she expects it to be though. In an actual kitchen, improvisation isn't always a good thing, no matter what the results are. Plus there's a new guy in her class, Malachi, who seems to like her but doesn't know she has a daughter at home, not to mention Tyrone, Emma’s father. There is also the matter of money; paying for Emma’s childcare is enough of a burden without adding in a trip to Spain, and she can’t rely on 'Buela for everything.
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Racial Discrimination Portrayed in Angie Thomas's
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Printz Award Winners
Jellicoe Road How I Live Now Teen by Melina Marchetta by Meg Rosoff YF Marchetta YF Rosoff 2009. High school student Taylor 2005. To get away from her pregnant Markham, who was abandoned by stepmother in New York City, her drug-addicted mother at the age 15-year-old Daisy goes to England to Printz Award of 11, struggles with her identity and stay with her aunt and cousins, but family history at a boarding school in soon war breaks out and rips the Australia. family apart. Winners The White Darkness The First Part Last by Geraldine McCaughrean by Angela Johnson YF McCaughrean YF Johnson 2008. When her uncle takes her on a 2004. Bobby's carefree teenage life dream trip to the Antarctic changes forever when he becomes a wilderness, Sym's obsession with father and must care for his adored Captain Oates and the doomed baby daughter. expedition becomes a reality as she is soon in a fight for her life in some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Postcards from No Man's Land American Born Chinese by Aidan Chambers by Gene Luen Yang YF Chambers YGN Yang 2003. Jacob Todd travels to 2007. This graphic novel alternates Amsterdam to honor his between three stories about the grandfather, a soldier who died in a problems of young Chinese nearby town in World War II, while in Americans trying to participate in 1944, a girl named Geertrui meets an American popular culture. English soldier named Jacob Todd, who must hide with her family. The Michael L. Printz Award recognizes Looking for Alaska books that exemplify literary A Step from Heaven by John Green excellence in young adult literature YF Green by Na An 2006.
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Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fsts and her ferceness do the talking. Why you'll like it: Free verse. Coming-of-Age. Family. About the Author: Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and author, born and raised in New York City. She received several awards for her book The Poet X, a 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature, the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature, and the 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Questions for Discussion 1. How does a novel in verse give the words room to breathe? Consider the physical formatting and spacing of the poetry. How does it convey the emotion of the scene and Xiomara’s feelings? 2. Acevedo’s novel explores the theme of voice. How does she convey Xiomara’s struggle to find her own voice, and how does joining the Poetry Club become a defining moment? 3. At its heart, The Poet X is a novel about teenage rebellion against strict parents and a coming-of-age story. While this is a common theme in YA novels, how did Acevedo find a fresh take on this plot? How is Xiomara’s story current and relevant? 4. The Poet X looks at religion, family values, and sexuality. How does Xiomara’s struggle to find a balance between her own values, her mother’s values, the teaching of her religion, ad the expectations of her peer group create tension in the story? 5.
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Anti-Racist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages
Anti-racist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages By Elizabeth Bird See the whole list here: Antiracist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages | A Fuse #8 Production Books for Children (Fiction): Blended by Sharon M. Draper DB093013 From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks DB098670 A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Marie Ramee DB094289 It All Comes Down to This by Karen English DB088659 New Kid by Jerry Craft (Hoopla ebook) DB094151 One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia BR019326 DB071082 The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson BR013093 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga DB096396 Books for Children (Facts): A Ride to Remember by Sharon Langley DB098530 Books for Teens (Fiction): All American Boys by Jason Reynolds DB083370 The Color Purple by Alice Walker ● BR007222 ● BR012265 ● DB018576 ● DB040883 (Spanish) ● DB058842 ● DV000297 ● LP000438 Dear Martin by Nic Stone DB089400 Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes BR022276 DB090875 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas BR021874 DB087441 DB087967 (Spanish) How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon DB080691 BR020666 Monster by Walter Dean Myers BR012515 Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson BR022201 DB088750 The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo BR022420 DB092221 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston BR022592 DB035745 Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles BR022250 DB090391 Books for Teens (Facts) Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore BR019701 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly BR021798 DB085959 (Spanish) DB086234 In The Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C.
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