[CASL-L] Reading list help needed from YA and high school librarians!

[Jacquelyn Whiting]

A Long Way Home: A Memoir Jun 2, 2015
by Saroo Brierley
(basis for the movie Lion)

We Need New Names: A Novel Paperback – May 20, 2014
by NoViolet Bulawayo

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stevenson, Bryan

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Leovy, Jill

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Williams, Linda <Linda.Williams at ct.gov>
wrote:

> Almost finished with my annual summer reading lists but AS ALWAYS, the
> high school lists stump me. I have lots of “Build a Better World”
> nonfiction. But fiction? Not so much.
>
>
>
> Here’s the very female-protagonist-heavy list that I have so far. Please
> help/comment if you can!. And THANKS!
>
>
>
> *Audacity **by Melanie Crowder*
>
> A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich
> and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New
> York. | *ALA, ILA, NCSS *| Lexile: 1120
>
> *Starbird Murphy and the World Outside **by Karen Finneyfrock*
>
> Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the
> woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress
> at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the
> only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside. | x | Lexile: 820
>
>
> *Pay It Forward **by Catherine Ryan Hyde*
>
> A young boy who believes in the goodness of human nature sets out to
> change the world with his seemingly simple plan, but he soon learns that
> some people are not willing to help him. | ALA | Lexile: 630
>
> *Flight Behavior **by Barbara Kingsolver *
>
> Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored
> housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is
> detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites
> a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
>
> *Station Eleven **by Emily St. John Mandel*
>
> The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear"
> marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various
> past and future. | x | x
>
> *A Step Toward Falling **by Cammie McGovern*
>
> After failing to come to Belinda's aid while she was being attacked, Emily
> and another classmate are punished by being forced to work at a community
> center for people with disabilities, but they are put the ultimate test
> when Belinda finally returns to school and they must find a way to make
> amends to her. | x | Lexile: 730
>
> *Eight Girls Taking Pictures **by Whitney Otto*
>
> A tale inspired by the lives of famous twentieth-century female
> photographers traces the progression of feminism and photography in various
> world regions as each woman explores private and public goals while
> balancing the demands of family and creativity. | *ALA *|
>
> *The Lucy Variations **by Sara Zarr *
>
> With her chance at a career as a concert pianist passed, Lucy Beck-Moreau
> decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his
> own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place.
> | *ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound *| Lexile: 610
>
> *I am the Messenger **by Marcus Zusak*
>
> After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy
> begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where
> people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of
> worthlessness. | *ALA *| Lexile:
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> Linda
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>
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