Nutley Public Schools

NHS Summer Reading Book Suggestions

Nutley High SchoolSummer of 2015

Summer Reading at NHS● This summer, all Nutley High School students entering 9th,

10th, 11th, or 12th grade are required to read a minimum of a fiction and a nonfiction text, both of your choice.

● You do not have to choose from an established list.

○ You are to choose a fiction and nonfiction text that you find interesting and are motivated to read.

● In addition to these two texts, you are encouraged to read magazines, newspapers, articles, blogs, and other novels to avoid “summer slide” and best prepare for the upcoming school year.

What should I prepare for September?• When you return to school in September, you will be required to reflect upon your

summer reading text(s) through a verbal and/or written assessment.

– You should know each text well enough to be able to discuss the texts with your peers and/or teacher.

• To help you prepare for September, while reading, you should consider questions such as:

– What new ideas/perspectives have I gained by reading?

– How has this text changed my thinking?

– What new information have I learned?

– What in the text really made an impact on me? Why?

• You may want to use post-it notes or record your ideas in an app/journal/notebook to track your thinking.

– Although this component is not required, it may help you in September with the in-class assignment.

FICTION

Palacio, R.J. Wonder. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I’m not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we’re 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I’m not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider Varsity tennis captain, Ezra Faulkner, was supposed to

be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.

NONFICTION

Inside Seal Team Six

Mann, Don with Ralph Pezzullo. Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors Shares the experiences of the former Navy SEAL who was a member of the elite force and his part in training the team responsible for killing Osama bin Laden. Graphic language and violence.

For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia KIller, His Son, and the Legacy of Mob Life

DeMeo, Albert & Mary Jane Ross. For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life. The son of the head of the Gambino crime family’s squad of killers and thieves describes coming of age in the world of organized crime, the murder of his father when he was seventeen, and his determination to escape his father’s fate

Once Upon A Quinceanera*Alvarez, Julia. Once Upon a Quinceaňera: Coming of Age in the USA. A

cultural exploration of the Latina fifteenth birthday celebration traces the experiences of a Queens, NY teen preparing for her quinceaňera.

UnbrokenHillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,

Resilience, and Redemption. Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, 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.

Tammet, Daniel. Born on a Blue Day. Daniel sees numbers as shapes, colours and textures and can perform extraordinary maths in his head. He can also learn to speak a language fluently from scratch in a week. He has Savant Syndrome, an extremely rare form of Asperger's that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. It is his incredible self-awareness and ability to communicate what it feels like to live in a unique way that makes his story so powerful. Touching as well as fascinating, Born On A Blue Day explores what it's like to be special and in so doing gives us an insight into what makes us all human - our minds.

Born on a Blue Day

I Am Malala

Yousafzai, Malala. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban. Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. HARDCOVER only 2014.Yousafzai, Malala. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban. Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. HARDCOVER only 2014.

Girl, Interrupted In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.

Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

BOOK LISTS

AND LINKS

Not sure what to read this summer? Click on the link below and answer some

questions that may lead you to some engaging young adult summer reading books.

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100 Best-Ever Teen Novels

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/157795366/your-favorites-100-best-ever-teen-novels

Young Adults’ Choices Reading ListsThese book lists were created by teens in grades 7-12.

2015: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/choices/yac2015.pdf

2014: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/choices/yac2014.pdf

2013: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/choices/ira-young-adults-choices-reading-list-2013.pdf

2012: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/awards/YoungAdultsChoices2012_web.pdf

2011: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Choices/yac2011.pdf

2010: http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Choices/yac2010.pdf

Other Years/Resources: http://www.reading.org/resources/booklists/youngadultschoices.aspx

Links to Books Lists

Additional Links to Books Lists❖ Epic Reads

➢ http://www.epicreads.com/books/

❖ 50 Books to Read in High School

➢ http://www.lexpublib.org/50BooksInHighschool

❖ YALA’S Teens’ Top Ten

➢ http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten

❖ Book Lists & Book Trailers from New York LIbraries

➢ http://www.summerreadingnys.org/teens/teens-booklists/

❖ Teen Reads

➢ http://www.teenreads.com/

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