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Summer Reading 2019

Summer Reading 2019
Incoming Freshmen
Incoming Sophomores - Seniors
Honors/AP
Glenbard Community Read

Dear English Student and Guardians:

The English Department requires all incoming freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors to read at least one book during the summer, and we certainly encourage you to read more than the single title. Please select a book (or more) from the list provided. The list includes a range of interests and genres. Please feel free to help your student come up with a final selection.

No formal written response is required before school begins; however, beginning-of-the-year activities will center around these books, so you might find it beneficial to use post-it notes, make margin comments, or take screenshots of important passages as you read. Know that you will be held accountable for reading a book from the list. Please bring any/all notes regarding the book to class with you on the first day of school.

It is important for families to read and discuss together, so we encourage parents/guardians to read these books also. This year we are making all summer reading books available through students' school-issued iPads via the Sora app. Should your child wish to use a paper version of the book, please visit your community libraries who have been informed of our summer reading program for copies. These books are also available for purchase through Amazon.com, or any other online bookstore, as well as at your local, independent bookstore.

Additionally, this year's 'One Book One Glenbard' Community Read will be David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. All community members are invited to attend his September 5th presentation.

We look forward to meeting you in August. In the meantime, enjoy the rays and a great read!

Sincerely,

The Glenbard East English Department

2019 Master List

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Freshman choices:

Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
An autobiography of Jazz Jennings in which she shares her experiences of transitioning for male to female and becoming an advocate for transgender youth.

Available in print and ebook
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
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.

Available in print and ebook
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.

Available in print, ebook, and audiobook
Flying Lessons and Other Stories by Ellen Oh (Editor)
ISBN: 9781101934623

From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning young adult authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

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The Free by Lauren McLaughlin
Teenaged Isacc, who steals to give his younger sister the basic necessities that his alcoholic mother cannot provide, is sentenced to a juvenile detention center and during therapy sessions with fellow criminals, a repressed memory surfaces that changes everything.

Available in print
Here to Stay by Sara Farizan
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.

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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

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#Murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil
ISBN: 9781368010023

Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.

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Meet Cute by Jennifer L. Armentrout
ISBN: 9781328759870
Publication Date: 2018-01-02

A collection of fourteen short stories exploring the moment when a couple meets for the first time--from an African American girl in upstate New York who simultaneously finds a prom dress and a date to a transgender girl who confronts the student blocking her right to use the school restroom.

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Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz; Ruth Gruener; Jack Gruener
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Available in print and audiobook
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--Provided by publisher.

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Sophomore - Senior choices:

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
In a world where every word and gesture in copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society.

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All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.

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Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora's family life isn't going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, is growing more threatening by the day, her mother is helpless and falling behind on the rent, and her father calls only on holidays. All Nora wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. And while there is a cute new guy who started working with her at the deli, is dating even worth the risk when the killer likes picking off couples who stay out too late?

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Crazy Messy Beautiful by Carrie Arcos
Sixteen-year-old Neruda Diaz, influenced by his namesake, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, yearns to fall in love but has yet to find the right girl.

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Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling food and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." The family was so isolated from that there was no one to ensure the children received an education. When her brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to BYU. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

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Gabe Johnson Takes Over by Geoff Herbach
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.

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Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
A girl named Pen grapples with her identity, and the expectations traditional gender roles play in her family, with her friendships, and at school.

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Running with Lions by Julian Winters
Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie Sebastian Hughes should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing, and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood-best-friend Emir Shah shows up at summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team's success may end up in the hands of the one guy who hates him. Determined to reconnect with Emir for the sake of the Lions, he sets out to regain Emir's trust. But to Sebastian's surprise, sweaty days on the pitch, wandering the town's streets, and bonding on the weekends spark more than just friendship between them.

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Saints and Misfits by S. K. Ali
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.

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Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom.

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Honors English 1

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.

Available in print, ebook, and audiobook

English 1 Honors Letter

Honors English 2

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with assaulting a white girl.

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English 2 Honors Letter

English 3AP

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The author explores why some people are high achievers and others are not, citing culture, family, and upbringing as possible reasons some people are not as successful as others.

**Will be available in Sora in early July**
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

Available in print and ebook

English 3 AP Lang Letter

English 4AP

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence, and death.

Available in print, ebook, and audiobook

English 4 AP Lit Letter

Humanities Honors

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
An investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."

**Will be available in Sora in early July**

Humanities Honors Letter

AP Capstone

The Glenbard Parent Series has selected the critically acclaimed novel, 'Killers of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI' as its 2019 One Book One Glenbard Community Read. Please join us when we welcome author David Grann on September 5th at 7 pm. For more information, visit the GPS Website .

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating

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