Read what you like this summer
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- Recommendation:
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- free ebook available on Sora for unlimited users, all the way through Aug 20
- Summary:
- Genre: realistic
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- Recommendation:
- Get some ideas from other high schools:
What we've been reading:
- Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher
- Summary: In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
- Genre: science fiction
- Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
- Sequel to Carry On
- Summary:The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light... That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost.
- Genre: fantasy
What we want to start reading:
- Majesty: American Royals II by Katharine McGee
- sequel to American Royals
- Summary: In an alternate America, tensions are high as Beatrice prepares to become the country's first queen, while Princess Samantha and Prince Jefferson struggle to decide what their futures might hold.
- Genre: relationships
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Summary: Wilkerson [presents] . . . a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more, . . . shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day, . . . [and] points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
- Genre: non-fiction