SHS Summer Reading List General English Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

$

10.00

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Sick

Tom Laveen

$

8.00

2016 Grand Canyon Reader Nominee Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They’re the misfits and the troublemakers—the ones who jump their high school’s fence to skip class regularly. So when a deadly virus breaks out, they’re the only ones with a chance of surviving. The virus turns Brian’s classmates and teachers into bloodthirsty attackers who don’t die easily. The whole school goes on lockdown, but Brian and his best friend, Chad, are safe (and stuck) in the theater department—far from Brian’s sister, Kenzie, and his ex-girlfriend with a panic attack problem, Laura. Brian and Chad, along with some of the theater kids Brian had never given the time of day before, decide to find the girls and bring them to the safety of the theater. But it won’t be easy, and it will test everything they thought they knew about themselves

Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson

$

17.00

2016 Grand Canyon Reader Nominee For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy’s PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.

The Berlin Boxing Club

Robert Sharenow

$

9.00

Sydney Taylor Award-winning novel Berlin Boxing Club is loosely inspired by the true story of boxer Max Schmeling's experiences following Kristallnacht.Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin, don't care that Karl has never been in a synagogue or that his family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by attacks on a heritage he doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth. So when Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German national hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl boxing lessons, A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but now it seems like the perfect chance to reinvent himself. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: protector of his family. And as Max's fame forces him to associate with Hitler and other Nazi elites, Karl begins to wonder where his hero's sympathies truly lie. Can Karl balance his dream of boxing greatness with his obligation to keep his family out of harm's way?

Taking Flight

Michaela DePrince

$

15.00

Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has appeared in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as on Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Nightline. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet’s most exciting rising stars.

Additional General English Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Deathwatch Thirteen Reasons Why The Fall

Jamie Ford Robb White Jay Asher Bethany Griffin

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14.00 7.00 10.00 16.00

Ralph Ellison

$

14.00

Truman Capote Tracy Kidder

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13.00 16.00

Bruce Courtenay Katherine Boo

$ $

14.00 14.00

Richard Wright Markus Zusak

$ $

14.00 12.00

AP Literature (seniors) Invisible Man

AP Language (juniors) In Cold Blood Mountains Beyond Mountains

Honors 3-4 (sophomores) Power of One Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Honors 1-2 (freshmen) Black Boy The Book Thief

SHS Summer Reading Order Form Title Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Sick Impossible Knife of Memory The Berlin Boxing Club Taking Flight Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Deathwatch Thirteen Reasons Why The Fall Invisble Man In Cold Blood Mountains Beyond Mountains Power of One Behind the Beautiful Forevers Black Boy The Book Thief

Author Ransom Riggs Tom Laveen Laurie Halse Anderson Robert Sharenow Michaela DePrince Jamie Ford Robb White Jay Asher Bethany Griffen Ralph Ellison Truman Capote Tracy Kidder Bruce Courtenay Katherine Boo Richard Wright Markus Zusak

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Total Return your order form and cash to Ms. Jimenez in the Media Center by MAY 13, 2015. Books will be available for pick up by May 26, 2015.