[CASL-L] FINALIZED: Summer Reading Lists K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12

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A few ideas for the high school list, which IS a little female-protagonist-heavy:

Ready Player One--Ernest Cline. Last year's HS Nutmeg winner. Gaming theme, great world-building.

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded--Jim Ottaviani. Graphic novel format biography of the mathematician.

Railsea--Mieville. Futuristic retelling of Moby-Dick.

Illuminae--Kaufman/Kristoff. Sci-fi space opera. (paperback coming out in April)

Cathy Andronik
Teacher Librarian
Brien McMahon HS
Norwalk

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On Thu, 3/30/17, Williams, Linda <Linda.Williams at ct.gov> wrote:

Subject: [CASL-L] FINALIZED: Summer Reading Lists K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12
To: "'discussion list for CT children's librarians'" <goodnightmoon at mylist.net>, "'a Listserv for CT YA Librarians'" <speak at mylist.net>, "casl-l at mylist.net" <CASL-L at mylist.net>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017, 12:42 PM

Take one last look!
I’ve finalized the lists and you have till noon
tomorrow (sorry, but I’m going away!) to
comment/react. FYI, there are some repeats here. Certain
books, like Pay it Forward, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,
and Hidden
Figures come in the adult edition, and the “young
readers” edition. I’ve put the adult editions on
the High School list, and the young readers editions at the
appropriate grade levels.
Thank you to everyone who
contributed ideas. Sometimes your ideas made the list and
sometimes not (due to many factors on how they fit into the
whole, whether or not they were on professional lists,
whether they were in print, etc.) but
I appreciate your help even if your suggestions
aren’t here.
Here’s what’s
on the lists:
Kindergarten to Grade
2
PICTURE
BOOKS
Building Our House
by Jonathan
Bean
A young girl narrates her
family's move from the city to the country, where they
have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they
build a house
from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends. |
ALA
| Lexile: 820
The Curious Garden
by Peter
Brown
Liam discovers a hidden garden and
with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.
|
ALA
|
Lexile: 840

Maybe Something
Beautiful: How
Art Transformed a Neighborhood
by F. Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell
Mira lives in a gray and hopeless
urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his
paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to
Mira
and her neighbors. | ALA
| Lexile: 580
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara
Cooney

As a child Great-aunt Alice
Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to
faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do
something to make
the world more beautiful--and she does all those things,
the last being the most difficult of all. |
National
Book Award Winner
| Lexile: 680

Last Stop on Market
Street
by Matt de la
Pena
A young boy rides the bus across
town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the
beauty in everyday things. |
ALA, ILA,
NCSS, NCTE |
Lexile: 610

Drum Dream
Girl: How One
Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she
strives to become a drummer, despite being continually
reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has
never
been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo
Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona,
the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters. |
ALA, ILA,
NCSS |
Lexile: NP
The Night Gardener
by Terry
Fan
Everyone on Grimloch Lane enjoys
the trees and shrubs clipped into animal masterpieces after
dark by the Night Gardener, but William, a lonely boy, spots
the
artist, follows him, and helps with his special work. |
ALA,
NCSS |
Lexile: 390

Goodnight,
Goodnight, Construction Site
by Sherri
Duskey Rinker
At sunset, when their work is done
for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces
of construction equipment make their way to their resting
places
and go to sleep. | ALA |
Lexile:
820
The Smallest Girl in
the Smallest Grade
by Justin
Roberts
Sally McCabe is a very little
girl, and nobody notices her, although she notices
everything that goes on around her--but when she speaks out
about the unkindness
she sees, people start to pay attention. (CIP) Conduct of
life. Human behavior. Stories in rhyme. Bullying. |
Lexile: 1010
| [E.B. White Read
Aloud Honor Book]

Construction
by Sally
Sutton

Big machines and their drivers
work together to build a library. |
NCTE
|
Lexile:
Just a Dream
by Chris Van
Allsburg
When he has a dream about a future
Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand
the importance of taking care of the environment. | Lexile:
550
The Water Princess
by Susan
Verde
The story of one young girl's
quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village.
|
ALA
|
Lexile:
290
The Other Side
by Jacqueline
Woodson
Two girls, one white and one
black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the
fence that divides their town. |
ALA, ILA
|
Lexile: 300

GRAPHIC
NOVEL
The Flying Beaver
Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan
by Maxwell
Eaton
Two beavers thwart an evil plot by
penguins who plan to turn Beaver Island into a frosty
resort.
| Nutmeg
|
Lexile: 290
FOLKLORE
The Three Pigs
by David
Wiesner
The three pigs escape the wolf by
going into another world where they meet the cat and the
fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
| ALA
|
Lexile: NP
NONFICTION
Can We
Help?: Kids
Volunteering to Help Their Communities
by George Ancona
Describes how
children can help their communities in different ways, from
tending a community garden and training service dogs to
volunteering to
help people with disabilities and mentoring younger
students. | NCSS
|
One Plastic
Bag: Isatou
Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
by Miranda Paul
Tells the story of
a Gambian woman who came up with a way to recycle the
plastic bags that had littered the landscape in her nation,
an act that saved
the environment and transformed her community. |
ALA,
Nutmeg
| Lexile: 480

Follow the Moon Home
by Philippe
Cousteau
A book about
loggerhead sea turtles, and a girl's attempts to help
save their babies from man-made light. |
Lexile:
520
Dreaming
Up: A Celebration
of Building
by Christy Hale
A collection of concrete poetry,
illustrations, and photographs that shows how young
children's constructions, created as they play, are
reflected in notable
works of architecture from around the world.
Includes biographies of the architects, quotations, and
sources. |
Lexile: 550
BIOGRAPHY
The Tree
Lady: The True
Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by
H. Joseph Hopkins
Documents the true story of the
nature pioneer and activist who, after becoming the first
woman to earn a science degree from the University of
California, took a teaching position
in the desert region of San Diego and single-handedly
launched a movement to transform the area with trees and
gardens.
| ALA,
NCSS |
Lexile: 760
Luna and
Me: The Story of
Julia Butterfly Hill
by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Social activism combines with
environmentalism in this picture book bio of Julia Butterfly
Hill and Luna, the thousand-year-old redwood tree whose life
she saved.
| NCSS
A Boy and a Jaguar
by Alan
Rabinowitz
The renowned cat conservationist
reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech
disorder, describing how he only spoke fluently when he was
communicating with animals and
how he resolved at a young age to find his voice to be
their advocate. |
ALA, NCSS
|
Lexile: 670
The House that Jane
Built: A Story
About Jane Addams
by Tanya Lee Stone
This is the story of Jane Addams,
the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,
who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up
her house as a community
center. | NCSS |
Lexile: 810

Grade 3 to Grade
4
PICTURE BOOKS
Dream Something Big
by Dianna
Hutts Aston
In Watts, California, over a
period of many years, a man known to all as Uncle Sam spends
his free time collecting broken bits of pottery, glass, and
other scraps and turning them
into a work of art. (CIP) Simon Rodia, 1879-1965. Simon
Rodia's Towers. Watts. Los Angeles.
| ILA
|
Lexile: 830
Marvelous Cornelius
by Phil
Bildner
A man known as the "Trashcan
Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French
Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean,
until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly
causes him to lose his spirit. | ILA, NCSS
| Lexile:
560
Buffalo Music
by Tracey E.
Fern
After hunters kill off the buffalo
around her Texas ranch, a woman begins raising orphan
buffalo calves and eventually ships four members of her
small herd to Yellowstone National
Park, where they form the beginnings of newly thriving
buffalo herds. |
ALA | Lexile:
860
CHAPTER BOOKS
Annie Glover is Not
a Tree Lover
by Darleen
Bailey Beard
When her grandmother chains
herself to the tree across from the school to save it from
being cut down, fourth-grader Annie wants to die of
humiliation, but when she discovers the town's history,
her attitude changes.
| | Lexile:
630
Violet
Mackerel’s Pocket Protest
by Anna
Branford
Violet and Rose organize a
protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park. |
Lexile: 1110
Manatee Rescue
by Nicola
Davies

When her father successfully
harpoons a manatee, leaving its baby orphaned, Manuela vows
to rescue the calf and return it to the river, helping
change the attitudes of the people in her village in the
process.
| NSTA
|
Lexile: 910
Book Uncle and Me
by Uma
Krishnaswami
Every day, Yasmin borrows a book
from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free
lending library on the street corner. But when the mayor
tries to shut down the rickety book-stand, Yasmin has to
take
her nose out of her book and do something. | Lexile: 580
The Wild Ones
by C.
Alexander London
After his parents are killed,
Kit, a young raccoon sets off for the city with a stone that
may be the key to finding the Bone of Contention, a
legendary object that is proof of a deal giving the wild
animals the
rights to Ankle Snap Alley, which the dogs and cats--known
as the flealess--want back and are willing to kill for. |
Lexile: 810
Waiting for the
Magic
by Patricia
MacLachlan
When Papa goes away for a little
while, his family tries to cope with the separation by
adopting four dogs and a cat. |
Nutmeg
Lexile:
420
Lulu and the Dog
from the Sea
by Hilary
McKay
Seven-year-old Lulu and her
cousin think their vacation house is the most perfect place
ever until they find a trouble-prone, stray dog living on
the beach. |
Nutmeg
|
Lexile: 770
Sydney & Simon
Go Green!
by Paul A.
Reynolds
After discovering that a green
sea turtle was harmed by plastic in the ocean, twin mice
Sydney and Simon come up with a creative campaign to
increase recycling and reduce the amount of trash created in
their home,
school, and town. | Lexile:
750
GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Legend of Hong
Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea by Anne Sibley
O'Brien
Graphic novel treatment of the
life and career Hong Kil Dong, the Korean equivalent of
Robin Hood. |
ALA
|
Lexile: 680
NONFICTION
Energy
Island: How One
Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World
by Allan Drummond
It's windy on the Danish
island of Samsø. Meet the environmentally friendly folks
who, in a few short years, worked together for energy
independence, and who now proudly call their home Energy
Island. |
ILA, NSTA
|
Lexile: 920
Ada's
Violin: The Story
of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
by Susan Hood
A town built on a landfill. A
community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a
vision. An ingenious idea. |
ILA, NCTE
|
Lexile: 820
Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs
by Michaela Muntean
Luciano Anastasini, a man who
calls the circus home, and ten homeless dogs are brought
together by fate. |
Nutmeg
|
Lexile:
The Camping Trip
That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir,
and Our National Parks
by Barb Rosenstock
Introduces the story of how
President Theodore Roosevelt, on a camping trip with
naturalist John Muir in Yosemite National Park, decided to
support the conservation of national parks. |
NCSS
|
Lexile:
Brick by Brick
by Charles R.
Smith, Jr.
Constructed brick by brick, the
White House was created by human hands, many of them
slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of
this country, in the story of how the official residence and
principal
workplace of the United States presidents was built.
BIOGRAPHY
Grandfather Gandhi
by Arun
Gandhi
Mathama Gandhi's grandson
tells the story of how his grandfather taught him to turn
darkness into light. | ILA, NCSS | Lexile: 600
Fur, Fins, and
Feathers: Abraham
Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo
by Cassandre Maxwell
A biography of Abraham Dee
Bartlett and how he helped to invent the modern zoo. |
NCSS
|
Lexile: x
Miss Moore Thought
Otherwise: How
Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
by Jan Pinborough
A picture book biography about
librarian Anne Carroll Moore who, as the New Yorker said,
"more or less invented the children's library. |
NCSS
|
Lexile:
Wangari
Maathai: The
Woman who Planted Millions of Trees
by Franck Prevot
Wangari Maathai received the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her efforts to lead women in a
nonviolent struggle to bring peace and democracy to Africa
through its reforestation. Her organization
planted over thirty million trees in thirty years. This
beautiful picture book tells the story of an amazing woman
and an inspiring idea. |
ALA, ILA, NCSS
|
Lexile: 970
Brave
Girl: Clara and
the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel
Describes how immigrant Clara
Lemlich, fought back against the poor treatment of her
fellow factory workers and led the largest walkout of women
workers in the country. |
ALA, NCTE
|
Lexile: 760
A Boy Named
FDR: How Franklin
D. Roosevelt Grew Up to Change America
by Kathleen Krull
Focuses on Franklin D.
Roosevelt's childhood years and summarizes his
achievements as president. |
ILA
|
Lexile: 930
Grade 5 to Grade
6
FICTION
Because of Mr.
Terupt
by Rob
Buyea

Seven fifth-graders at Snow
Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are
changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr.
Terupt. |
Nutmeg
|
Lexile: 560

This
Journal Belongs to Ratchet
by Nancy J.
Cavanaugh
Homeschooled by her
mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel
"Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make
friends, save a park, remember her
mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
| NCTE
| Lexile:
830
Gaby, Lost and Found
by Angela
Cervantes
Gaby Howard loves volunteering at
the local animal shelter. Her mother has been deported to
Honduras and Gaby is stuck living with her inattentive dad.
She's
confident that her mom will come home soon so that they can
adopt Gaby's favorite shelter cat together. But Gaby
worries that her plans for the perfect family are about to
fall apart. |
NCTE,
Nutmeg |
Lexile: 640

Seedfolks
by Paul
Fleischman
One by one, a number of people of
varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled
inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and,
in doing
so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. |
ALA, ILA,
NCSS
| Lexile: 710

Operation
Redwood by S.
Terrell French
In northern California, Julian
Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove
of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut
them down.
| ILA
|
Lexile: 700

The End of the Wild
by Nicole
Helget

Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take
care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the
forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she
realizes
that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood
could be threatened.

Hoot
by Carl
Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small
Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's
attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed
construction site.
| ALA,
Nutmeg |
Lexile: 760

One White
Dolphin by
Gill Lewis
When a baby
albino dolphin caught
in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing
hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with
veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the
dolphin with her mother, setting
off a chain of events that might just save the reef from
the environmental effects of proposed dredging. |
NSTA
|
Lexile:
620

Bayou Magic
by Jewell
Parker Rhodes
Visiting her grandmother in the
Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that
she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her
family's
magical legacy. | x | Lexile: 410

Last in a
Long Line of Rebels
by Lisa Lewis
Tyre
When the city of Zollicoffer,
Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize
their one hundred seventy-five year old house through
eminent domain,
twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way
to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking
the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as ... |
ILA, NCSS
|
Lexile: 660

GRAPHIC NOVEL
Saving the Whole
Wide World
by
Judd Winick

Hilo and his friends must save
the world from monsters from another dimension.
| Book 1 was a Nutmeg
| Lexile: 260
NONFICTION
Fire in Their
Eyes: Wildfires
and the People Who Fight Them
by Karen Magnuson Beil
Depicts in text and photographs
the training, equipment, and real-life experiences of people
who risk their lives to battle wildfires, as well as people
who use fire for ecological reasons.
| NCSS
| Lexile: 1010
We Will Not Be
Silent: The White
Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler
by Russell Freedman
The true story of the White
Rose, a group of students in Nazi Germany who were active
undercover agents of the resistance movement against Hitler
and his regime.
| ALA
| Lexile: 630
The First
Step: How One
Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan Goodman
Shares the story of Sarah
Roberts and her 1847 case petitioning that she be allowed to
attend a white school, explaining how her heroic efforts
established key precedents and paved the way
for civil rights advancements. | NCTE, NCSS
| Lexile: 770

Chasing
Cheetahs: The
Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cats
by Sy Montgomery
Describes the cheetah's
essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in which
Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting
cohabitation between cheetahs and farmers.
| ALA, NSTA
| Lexile: 1000
Heroes of the
Environment: True
Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect the Planet
by Harriet Rohmer
Highlights the accomplishments
of twelve people from across North America who have worked
to protect the environment, including a Mexican superstar
wrestler who protects turtles and whales.
| Lexile 1070
Separate is Never
Equal: Sylvia
Mendez & Her Family's Flight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Years before the landmark
U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education,
Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto
Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v.
Westminster, the landmark desegregation
case of 1946 in California. | ALA
| Lexile: 870
BIOGRAPHY
Fannie Never
Flinched: One
Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union
Rights
by Mary Cronk Farrell
Traces the life of Fannie
Sellins, a union activist who traveled the nation promoting
fair wages and decent working and living conditions for
workers in the garment and mining industries.
| NCSS
|
Lexile: 1020
Temple
Grandin: How the
Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
by Sy Montgomery
Examines the life and
accomplishments of Temple Grandin, whose childhood diagnosis
of autism and love of cows led her to revolutionize the
livestock industry. |
ALA, NSTA
|
Lexile: 960
Stand There! She
Shouted: The
Invincible Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
by Susan Goldman Rubin
The story of British
photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her exotic bohemian
life. |
NCSS
|
Lexile: 980
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall
by Anita Silvey
A biography of one of the most
recognized scientists in the world.
| NCSS | Lexile:
1100
Voice of
Freedom: Fannie
Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford
A collage-illustrated collection
of free form poems describing the life and work of civil
rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer. |
ALA, NCSS
|
Lexile: 820
Grade 7 to Grade
8
FICTION
Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M.
Draper
When a burning cross set by the
Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North
Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find
the strength
to demand change in her segregated town. | ALA, ILA, NCSS
| Lexile: 740

One for the Murphys
by Lynda
Mullaly Hunt
After heartbreaking betrayal,
Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles
with opening herself up to their love.
| Nutmeg
| Lexile:
520
Pay It Forward
(Young Readers
Edition) by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old
boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's
challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to
change
the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three
people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask
them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need
help.
| Lexile:
610
A Death-Struck Year
by Makiia
Lucier
When the Spanish influenza
epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918,
seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her
boarding school to work for the Red Cross.
| NCSS,
Nutmeg |
Lexile: 600
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue
Park
When the Sudanese civil war
reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes
separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka
tribe members
through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of
safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after
emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water
wells in Sudan. |
NCSS,
Nutmeg |
Lexile:
720
All of the Above
by Shelley
Pearsall
Five urban middle school students,
their teacher, and other community members relate how a
school project to build the world's largest tetrahedron
affects
the lives of everyone involved. |
ALA |

Lexile: 950
Ghost
by Jason
Reynolds
Ghost, a naturally talented runner
and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school
track team. He must stay on track, literally and
figuratively,
to reach his full potential. | ALA
| Lexile:
730
Faith, Hope, and Ivy
June
by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor
During a student exchange program,
seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives,
homes, and communities, and find that although their
lifestyles
are total opposites they have a lot in common. |

Lexile: 900
Counting by Sevens
by Holly
Goldberg Sloan
Twelve-year-old genius and
outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with
other people and find a surrogate family for herself after
her parents
are killed in a car accident. | ALA, NCTE, Nutmeg
| Lexile: 770

Drums, Girls &
Dangerous Pie
by Jordan
Sonnenblick
When his younger brother is
diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to
deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his
desire
to support his family. | ALA,
Nutmeg
Shadow on the
Mountain
by Margi
Preus
In Nazi-occupied Norway,
fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement,
graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier
and spy.
| ILA,
Nutmeg |
Lexile: 730
Endangered
by Eliot
Shrefer

Sophie is not happy to be back in
the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused
baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother’s
sanctuary–and
when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it
is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in
the jungle.
| ALA, NCTE, Nutmeg
| Lexile: 900
GRAPHIC
NOVEL
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane
Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas
by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
This is the true story of three
scientists who risked their lives for research that forever
changed the way we think of primates- including ourselves.
| ALA, NSTA

NONFICTION
It's Your
World--If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism For Teenagers
by Mikki Halpin
A how-to reference guide to
becoming politically active for teens includes youth
activists resources, contact lists for local and national
governments, information on the upcoming presidential
election, various success stories, and more. |
NYPL Books for
the Teen Age

The Boys Who
Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill
Club by Phillip M. Hoose
The true story of a group of boy
resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion.
| ALA, ILA, NCSS
|
Lexile: 970

The Girl from the
Tar Paper School
by Teri
Kanefield
Describes the peaceful protest
organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure
a permanent building for her segregated high school in
Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions
helped fuel the civil rights movement. |
NCSS
|
Lexile: 1100
The Next
Wave: The Quest
to Harness the Power of the Oceans by Elizabeth
Rusch
Explores the use of ocean waves
as a renewable energy source.
| NSTA
|
Lexile: 1070

How the Beatles
Changed the World
by Martin W.
Sandler
Fifty years after the British
invasion began, Martin Sandler explores The Beatles'
long-lasting impact on the world.
| NCSS
|
Lexile: 1160

BIOGRAPHY
Claudette
Colvin: Twice
Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
Presents the life of the Alabama
teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus
strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again,
by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark
civil rights case against the bus company. | ALA, NCSS
| Lexile:
1000
A Volcano Beneath
the Snow: John
Brown's War Against Slavery
by Albert Marrin
A biography of American
abolitionist John Brown, discussing his childhood, his
career and family, and his involvement in the abolition
movement during the Civil War in which he led a raid
on a military armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
| NCSS
| Lexile:
990
The Boy Who
Harnessed the Wind
by William
Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer
Presents a story of how an
African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create
electricity for his home and his village, improving life for
himself and his neighbors. |
ILA,
NCSS|
Lexile: 860
Hidden
Figures: The
Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped
Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot
Lee Shetterly
Explores the previously
uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's
African-American women mathematicians to America's space
program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from
their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking
successes. |
Lexile: 1120
Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed
the World by Rachel Swaby
Profiles thirty-three women who
have made notable contributions to science, including Maria
Gaetana Agnesi, Virginia Apgar, and Rachel Carson. |
NSTA STEM
|
Lexile: 1130
Grade 9 to Grade
12
FICTION
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. |
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.

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 to the ultimate test when Belinda finally
returns to school and they must find a way to make amends to
her. | 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

Out of Nowhere
by Maria
Padian
Performing community service for
pulling a stupid prank against a rival high school, soccer
star Tom tutors a Somali refugee with soccer dreams of his
own. |
Nutmeg
|
Lexile: 670
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:
640
GRAPHIC
NOVEL
March: Book One
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the
author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights
spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting
with Martin Luther
King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
| ALA
| Lexile: 760
NONFICTION
Symphony for the
City of the Dead:
Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
by M. T. Anderson
An account of the Siege of
Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri
Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and
commemorating
their fellow citizens. | ALA, NCSS
| Lexile: 990

Eyes Wide
Open: Going
Behind the Environmental Headlines
by Paul Fleischman
A summary of today's
environmental challenges also counsels teens on how to
decode conflicting information, explaining the role of
vested interests while identifying
the sources behind different opinions, helping teens make
informed choices. (BT) Environmental protection.
Environmental quality.|
NSTA
|
Lexile: 1080

The Boy Who
Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity
and Hope by William Kamkwamba & Bryan
Mealer
A true story of tenacity and
imagination describes how an African teenager built a
windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and
his village,
improving life for himself and his neighbors. |
ALA,
NSTA
| Lexile: 960

Smarter
Than You Think:
How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson
Shows how every technological
advance, from the printing press to the Internet, has been
disparaged, caused hand-wringing, and has generated anxious
predictions
of doom, but actually has augmented human life for the
better. | ALA Outstanding Books
for the Cllege Bound
|

Half the
Sky: Turning
Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof
Discusses the oppression of women
in the developing world, sharing example stories about
victims and survivors who are working to raise awareness,
counter
abuse, and campaign for women's rights. |
ALA
Outstanding Books for the College Bound

BIOGRAPHY
Ida M.
Tarbell: The
Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won!
by Emily Arnold McCully
Follows the life of Ida Tarbell,
the nineteenth-century author/journalist whose articles on
the corrupt practices of John D. Rockeller and Standard Oil
Company resulted in legislation against
trusts. | ALA,
NCSS |
Lexile: 1120

Hidden
Figures: The
American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women
Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly
An account of the previously
unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's
African-American women mathematicians to America's space
program describes how they were segregated from their
white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their
groundbreaking successes. |
ALA
|

Just
Mercy: A Story of
Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The founder of the Equal Justice
Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences
as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need,
reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal
of compassion in American justice. | ALA
| Lexile: 1130

I am
Malala: The Girl
Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai
When the Taliban took over the
Swat Valley in Pakistan, one fifteen year-old girl decided
to speak out. |
ALA
|
Lexile: 1000

Mountains
Beyond Mountains:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man who Would Cure the World
adapted by Michael French
Chronicles the life of Paul
Farmer, focusing on his efforts to diagnose and cure
infectious diseases and to bring modern medicine to the
countries and people who need them most. |
NCSS
|
Lexile: 1120
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