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Free-Fire Zone. (No. 3) Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him. Summary from Request. AR BL 5.3 Fiction

Casualties of War. (No.4) One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to affect him. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.4 Fiction

Walking Wounded. (No. 5) Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.7 Fiction

Maas, Sarah. Throne of Glass. After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers assassin Celaena Sar-dothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.7 Fiction

Nelson, Jandy. I’ll Give You the Sun. A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 4.9 Fiction

Rucka, Greg. Star Wars Before the Awakening. Reveals the origins of a doubtful storm trooper for the First Order called FN-2187, a young scavenger on the des-ert planet of Jakku who calls herself Rey, and a hotshot Republic pilot named Poe Dameron, before they become involved in the major conflicts disrupting the galaxy. Summary from Request. AR BL 6.8 Fiction

Sherwood, Ben. The death and life of Charlie St. Cloud. Charlie St. Cloud's life has been haunted by the ghost of his younger brother, who was killed in a car wreck that Charlie managed to survive, and when a beautiful young woman enters Charlie's life, he must choose between the past and the possibility of the future. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.1 Fiction

Wasserman, Robin. Hacking Harvard. When three brilliant nerds--Max Kim, Eric Roth, and Isaac "The Professor" Schwarzbaum--bet $20,000 that they can get anyone into Harvard, they take on the Ivy League in their quest for popularity, money, and the love of a beauty queen valedictorian. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.3 Fiction

Vinal Technical High SchoolSummer Reading 2017

PolicyIt is Vinal Tech policy that all students be required to read one (1) book over the course of the summer in order to maintain, if not improve, their reading skill level.Students will be assessed upon their return to school. All students will be held re-sponsible and accountable for completing this assignment.

RequirementsEach student is required to read 1 book from the appropriate class list over the course of the summer. Please read the following carefully:• For the book you read, you will be required to answer a question to show that you have read and understood your book. In an extended homeroom, you will be given five questions from which you will choose one to answer. It will be hand-written, one page response and completed in the extended homeroom. Your English teacher plus one other Vinal Tech teacher will grade this written component.• Assignment will be a Quiz grade and is graded pass/fail.• Summer Reading grades will be part of the English grade for all students.• There is an “Academic Honesty” component. Students and parents must sign the sheet below agreeing that the student has read one book for summer reading.

ACADEMIC HONESTY – VINAL TECH SUMMER READING 2017

By signing below, I agree that I have read the required book for summer reading. Student Name (Print)/ Grade: ______________________________________________________

Student Signature _______________________________________

Parent Signature ________________________________________

Summer ReadingClass of 2018

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tem-pestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847. Amazon. AR BL 11.3 Fiction

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. Based on the true story of a prosperous and respected Kansas farmer who, along with his wife and children, is murdered by two mindless ex-convicts. Summary for Request. AR BL 7.1 Nonfiction

Danforth, Emily, M. The Miseducation of Cameron Post. In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center. Destiny. AR BL 6.6 Fiction

Ebrahim, Zak. The Terrorist’s Son: a story of choice. The author discusses his life as the son of a terrorist and how he came to reject his father's ideology and em-brace the path of nonviolence. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 6.5 Fiction

Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared; it was Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor. Zamper-ini had a troubled youth, yet honed his athletic skills and made it all the way to the 1934 Olympics in Berlin. However, what lay before him was a physical gauntlet unlike anything he had encountered before: thousands of miles of open ocean, a small raft, and no food or water. He spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war. Summary from Request. AR BL 7.7 Nonfiction

Hopkins, Ellen. Rumble. Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question. Provided by the publisher.AR BL 4.9 Fiction

King, Steven. 11/22/1963: a novel. Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthrall-

Jal, Emmanuel. War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story. Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, Jal's fam-ily moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was sepa-rated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed. AR BL 5.5 Nonfiction

King, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. A portable radio helps a girl survive after she is lost in the woods of New England. During her nine-day ordeal, Trisha McFarland fights thirst, wasps and the terrors of the night, all the while keep-ing up her spirits by listening to music and baseball games. Summary from Request. AR BL 6.4 Fiction

Logan, Ben. The Land Remembers. A story of a farm and the people who make this a way of life. AR BL 5.4 Nonfiction

Lupica, Mike. True Legend. Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA. AR BL 5.2 Fiction

Lu, Marie. The Young Elites. Adelina Amouteru survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural pow-ers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities. Provided by publisher. AR 5.3 Fiction

Lynch, Chris. Vietnam Series: Choose One

I Pledge Allegiance. (No.1) Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck, having been either drafted or enlisted in the military during the Vietnam War, pledge they will come home together, and Morris, a sailor on the USS "Boston," relies on that promise to stay strong while his courage and resolve are tested under attack. (Kirkus Review) AR BL 5.3 Fiction

Sharpshooter. (No. 2) Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlist-ing in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to be a sniper. And he's good at it. Very good. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Somehow the glory and heroism of his father's war stories do not come so easily in the jungle. Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really fighting for and whether it's a fight he can hope to win. Provider by the publisher. AR BL 5.3 Fiction

Summer ReadingClass of 2021

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie; an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled rela-tionship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. AR BL 5.5 Fiction

Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. Summary from Request. AR BL 4.3 Fiction.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. – Summary from Request. AR BL 4.1 Fiction

Dessen, Sarah. The Moon and More. "During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie.” Provided by publisher. AR BL 4.6 Fiction

Grandberry, Omari. O. The author describes his childhood in LA, sharing his personal side, his deep respect for the women who raised him and his rise within the music industry. AR BL 5.5 Nonfiction

Green, John. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. Summary from Request. AR BL 5.1 Fiction

Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. Kristina Georgia Snow disappears and Bree takes her place and Bree does drugs, gets pregnant, and is defiant and is fighting for her life as Kris-tina. –Provided by the publisher. AR BL 4.3 Fiction

ing piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . . but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Os-wald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become heart-stopping suspenseful. Amazon. AR BL 5.4 Fiction

Levitt, Steven D. Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what drives the economy. Destiny. AR BL 9.2 Nonfiction

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful. Desti-ny. AR BL 5.7 Fiction

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon. Amazon. AR BL 8.8 Nonfiction

Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes. The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant. AR BL 6.0 Fiction

Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Last Night I Sang to the Monster. Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future. Destiny. AR BL 3.4 Fiction

Schroff, Laura. An Invisible Thread: the True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny. When Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives. As one lunch with Maurice turns into two, then into a weekly occurrence, she learns details about Maurice's horrific childhood. Destiny. AR BL 6.0 Nonfiction

Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle. The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home. Destiny. AR BL 5.9 Nonfiction

Yousafzai, Malala with Christine Lamb. I am Malala: the Girl Who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. In-stead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nom-inee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. This story will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world. -- Publisher's description. Amazon. AR BL 7.1 Nonfiction

Summer ReadingClass of 2019

Allende, Isabel. The House of Spirits. In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Este-ban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. Amazon. AR BL 8.4 Fiction

child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his rela-tionships. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.6 Fiction

Greitens, Eric The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Cour-age -In this young-reader adaptation of his memoir, THE HEART AND THE FIST, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom that allow readers to exercise their imagination and broaden their horizons. AR Book Find. AR BL 6.3 Nonfiction

Grisham, John. Sycamore Row. The suspense never rests when A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the good fight once again. Often named an all-time favorite by John Grisham's legions of fans, the book that started it all gets a brand-new chapter. America's favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of Clanton apart. Summary from Request. AR BL 6.2 Fiction

King, Stephen. Cell. Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to Earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--The Pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived. AR BL 5.7 Fiction

Lupica, Mike. QB1. Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine. Summary from Request. AR BL 5.4 Fiction

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall: After teenage Samantha dies in a car crash, she relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. The plot contains profanity and sexual references. AR Book Find. AR BL 5.4 Fiction

Sheinkin, Steve. Bomb: the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon - Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scien-tists hidden at Los Alamos. Summary from Request. AR BL 6.9 Nonfiction

Weir, Andy. The Martian. "When a dust storm forces his crew to evacuate the planet while thinking him dead, astronaut Mark Watney finds himself stranded on Mars's surface, completely alone. Armed with nothing but his ingenuity, his engi-neering skills--and a gallows sense of humor that proves to be his greatest source of strength--Mark embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive, but will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?" Summary from Request. AR BL 5.4 Fiction

Blanco, Jodee. Please Stop Laughing at Me - The author shares the cruelty that was heaped on her by her classmates when she was labeled a freak in high school, describing what it meant to be an outcast among one's peers, the realities and con-sequences of bullying, and her struggle to overcome the torment. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 5.3 Nonfiction

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends. Summary from Request. AR BL 4.8 Fiction

Coben, Harlan. Just One Look. Suburban wife and mother Grace Lawson's idyllic life begins to unravel when she picks up a set of newly developed family photographs that contains a much older picture of a group of men that includes her husband Jack, and sets off a chain reaction of kidnapping and murder leading back to a deadly rock concert. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 4.0 Fiction

Cronn-Mills, Kirstin. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. "Gabe has always iden-tified as a boy, but he was born with a girl's body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as transgendered. An audition for a station in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a better life in the big city. But his entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out Gabe, the popular DJ, is also Elizabeth from school". Provided by publisher. AR BL 3.9 Fiction

Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of Emmett Till - Pres-ents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955. Summary from agent. AR BL 8.7 Nonfiction

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen. Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in class-mate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. Provided by the publisher. AR BL 4.9 Fiction

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother - After being interrogated for days by the De-partment of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. Summary from Request. AR BL 5.9 Fiction

Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines. Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former

Blehm, Eric. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown. Blehm presents a deeply personal glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands, fathers, and friends. Adam Brown waged a war against his own worst impulses, persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military, and his final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice. Summary from Request. AR BL 7.7 Nonfiction

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed. Destiny. AR BL 5.2 Fiction

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester. Summary from Request. AR BL 7.9 Fiction

Clare, Cassandra. Mortal Instrument Series Choose One

City of Bones. (No.1) Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. Provided by publisher. AR BL 5.0 Fiction

City of Ashes. (No.2) Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadow hunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon. Provided by publisher AR BL 5.0 Fiction

City of Glass. (No. 3) Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear. Provid-ed by publisher. AR BL 5.0 Fiction

City of Fallen Angels. (No.4) As mysterious murders threaten the new peace be-tween Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together. Provided by publisher. AR BL 5.2 Fiction

City of Lost Souls. (No.5) When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shad-owhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction. Provided by publisher. AR BL 5.1 Fiction

City of Heavenly Fire. (No.6) "Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian--but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance. “Summary from Destiny. AR BL 5.8 Fiction

Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones. In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Summary from Destiny. AR BL 6.0 Fiction

Davis, Sampson. The Pact. Follows the experiences of the authors, three friends who grew up in impoverished families in Newark, New Jersey, and who supported one another in their dreams of becoming doctors in spite of tremendous disadvantag-es. Destiny. AR BL 6.8 Nonfiction

Doerr, Nick. All the Light We Cannot See. A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. AR BL 6.2 Fiction

Kent, Kathleen. The Heretic’s Daughter. Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daugh-ter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. Summary from Agent. AR BL 6.8 Fiction

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse. AR, Summary from Destiny. AR BL 6.7 Fiction

King, Stephen. Finders Keepers. "Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in adver-tising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the mon-ey and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more

deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years.” AR BL 5.5 Fiction

Morgan, David Lee, Jr. Lebron James: The Rise of a Star. The son of an un-married, teenage mother, African American LeBron James overcame a culture of drugs, poverty, and violence in the Akron, Ohio, housing projects where he grew up to become a basketball superstar who signed more than $100 million dollars in promotional contracts before the end of his senior year in high school. Destiny. AR BL 7.4 Nonfiction

Picoult, Jodi. Vanishing Acts. Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-res-cue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive. Summary from Destiny. AR BL 5.9 Fiction

Talley, Robin. Lies We Tell Ourselves. In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on op-posite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily. Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal op-ponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal." Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another. Summary from Destiny. AR BL 4.2 Fiction

Summer ReadingClass of 2020

Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why. When high school student Clay Jenkins re-ceives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. Provided by the publisher. AR BL3.9 Fiction

Beam, Chris. I am J. -J had always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a "real boy" and started covering up his body, keeping himself invisible -- from his parents, from his friends, from the world. But after being deserted by the best friend he thought would always be by his side, J decides that he's done hiding -- it's time to be who he really is. And this time he is determined not to give up, no matter the cost. Amazon. AR BL 4.9 Fiction