Book Selection 2017/18
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A wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin, Ursula K.A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. |
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Milkweed by Spinelli, JerryA street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. |
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See you in the cosmos by Cheng, Jack“Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space” |
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Chocolate war by Cormier, RobertA high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. |
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When Zachary Beaver cam to town by Holt, Kimberly WillisDuring the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. |
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Last day on Mars by Emerson kevin“While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.” |
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Horizon by Westerfeld, Scott
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Books we have read:
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Schooled by Korman, GordonCap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school. |
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Stargirl by Spinelli, JerryAt first the students at Arizona’s Mica High School are captivated by Stargirl Caraway’s unusual, carefree behavior; however, she is soon shunned for everything that makes her unique in this story that pits individuality against conformity. |
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The seven most important thing by Pearsall, Shelley“In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man’s head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton” |
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Wild by Mallory, Alex“When Cade, a boy who has lived in the forest his whole life, saves a regular teen from a bear attack, he is broughtinto modern civilization for the first time” |
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Nil by Matson, LynneTransported through a “gate” to the mysterious island of Nil, seventeen-year-old Charley has 365 days to escape–or she will die. |
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Ashfall by Mullin, MikeAfter the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished. |
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Legend by Lu, Marie
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