|
Glenbard East High School Summer Reading 2024
|
|
|
Choose one of the following:
|
|
|
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
by Christina Soontornvat J 796.525 SOO
Combines firsthand interviews with scientific and cultural insights in a middle grade account of the 2018 Thai cave rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team and the critical, sophisticated engineering operation that saved the lives of 13 young people.
|
|
|
Becoming Muhammad Ali
by Kwame Alexander, James Patterson, and Dawud Anyabwile J F PAT
A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
|
|
|
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
by Jazz Jennings B JENNINGS
The author reccounts how her public experiences have influenced her attitude towards the transgender community, as she works to educate others about transgenderism while navigating the challenges of being a teenager.
|
|
|
Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
by Steve Sheinkin and Nick Bertozzi J 355.825119 SHE
This thrilling graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book takes readers back to 1938 where they will witness the creation of the atomic bomb — a story of plotting, risk-taking, deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon.
|
|
|
Brown Boy Nowhere
by Sheeryl Lim
Labeled “brown boy” by the popular kids, 16-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera, an outcast in his new school, becomes the leader of a group of fellow misfits who are determined to hold their own.
|
|
|
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
by Amanda Gorman 811.6 GOR
The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
|
|
|
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner 782.42166 ZAU
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
|
|
|
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
by Jackson, Holly YA F JAC
Five years after the shattering murder and suicide of two popular teens, a skeptical high school student reexamines the case before uncovering disturbing clues about what really happened.
|
|
|
Grenade
by Alan Gratz J F GRA
In 1945, a young Japanese soldier and young American meet in battle on the island of Okinawa and make decisions that will change their lives forever.
|
|
|
Love in English
by Maria E. Andreu YA F AND
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a 16-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
|
|
|
Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen YA F REI
Recruited by a mysterious corporation for a mission in outer space, an ordinary teen joins a group of fellow travelers, each of whom must earn the right to travel down to a paradise planet where the universe's most valuable mineral has been discovered.
|
|
|
Opposite of Always
by Justin A. Reynolds
Falling hard for a popular and charismatic girl who suddenly passes away, a grieving Jack finds himself traveling back in time to when they first met, only to find his efforts to prevent her death triggering unanticipated consequences.
|
|
|
Rez Ball
by Byron Graves YA F GRA
When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up — not on the court, not in school and not in love.
|
|
|
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
by Andrew Fukuda YA F FUK
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
|
|
|
When We Were Lost
by Kevin Wignall
When their plane crashes in a remote rainforest, killing all the adults, a group of high school students confront human and natural threats to their survival that pit them against one another.
|
|
|
The Wicked Bargain
by Gabe Cole Novoa YA F NOV
Hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice, transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate Mar teams up with the most unlikely allies to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and retrieve his soul from el Diablo.
|
|
|
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The tragic story of the friendship between two migrant workers, George and mentally retarded Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm.
|
|
Additionally, choose one book from the Freshmen list above.
|
|
Choose one of the following:
|
|
|
Artifice
by Sharon Cameron YA F CAM
To help her best friend Truus, who is smuggling Jewish babies out of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, master forger Isa de Smit sells fake paintings to the Nazis, but soon discovers fake can be difficult to spot both in art and in people.
|
|
|
Barely Missing Everything
by Matt Méndez
Learning that the father he believed dead is alive, a basketball athlete with dreams of a better life embarks on a road trip with his best friend while confronting how discrimination is affecting his prospects.
|
|
|
Blackout
by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon YA F BLA
Six critically acclaimed, best-selling and award-winning authors celebrate Black teen love in this interlinked novel of heartwarming and hilarious stories that shine a bright light through the dark.
|
|
|
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner 782.42166 ZAU
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
|
|
|
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton GN BEA
Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush - part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.
|
|
|
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham GN YA F PHA
Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness and for the American dream.
|
|
|
Forget Me Not
by Alyson Derrick
When the girl she loves suffers a terrible fall and cannot remember anything from the last two years, Nora finds herself forgotten and wonders if they can beat the odds and find their way back to each other.
|
|
|
Frontera
by Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo GN YA F ANT
Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a new friend, a ghost named Guillermo.
|
|
|
The Gilded Wolves
by Roshani Chokshi YA F CHO
Keeping close secrets in the wake of the Exposition Universelle in 1889 Paris, a wealthy hotelier and treasure-hunter is tapped by a powerful order to lead an elite team on a quest to track down an ancient artifact of world-changing significance.
|
|
|
The Half-Life of Love
by Brianna Bourne YA F BOU
With only 41 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes to live, Flint cuts himself off from everything as he waits to die, then finds his world colliding with September, who embodies joy and light, which becomes the start of a once-in-a-lifetime love despite their secrets.
|
|
|
Hollow Fires
by Samira Ahmed YA F AHM
Aspiring journalist Safiya Mirza investigates the murder of a 14-year-old boy who was wrongfully arrested, labeled a terrorist and eventually killed, seeking to tell the whole truth about the boy and those who killed him because of their hate-filled beliefs.
|
|
|
Invisible Son
by Kim Johnson
After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.
|
|
|
The Luis Ortega Survival Club
by Sonora Reyes YA F REY
After Ari is assaulted at a party by her crush, Luis, she finds a mysterious note in her locker that eventually leads her to a group of students determined to expose Luis for the predator he is.
|
|
|
Nothing More to Tell
by Karen M. McManus YA F MCM
Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process.
|
|
|
The Red Palace
by June Hur YA F HUR
In 1758 Joseon (Korea), 18-year-old palace nurse Hyeon works closely with a young police inspector to uncover the truth surrounding the murder of eight palace nurses when all the evidence points to the Crown Prince himself.
|
|
|
Work What You Got
by Zion Clark, James S. Hirsch
In this inspirational story of courage, determination, strength and self-invention, an elite wheelchair racer and wrestler recounts a childhood of abuse and neglect until he meets two saviors — a wrestling coach who sensed his “warrior spirit” and his adoptive mother who set him up for success.
|
|
|
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
Identifies the qualities of successful people and poses theories about the cultural, family and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance and why The Beatles earned their fame.
|
|
|
In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien
Pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam, a politician and his wife seek refuge in a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota, where a mystery unfolds when the wife mysterious vanishes into the nearby wilderness.
|
|
|
|
|
|