List B - Perspectives from American Authors - Summer Reading 2018

List B - Perspectives from American Authors

Autoboyography [Contemporary romances; LGBTQIA romances]

The Courage of Their Convictions [Civil rights cases; Legal writing]

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things [Nature Writing]

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything [Business and economics]

The Hate U Give [African American fiction; First person narratives; Realistic fiction]

The Hazel Wood [Fantasy fiction]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Autobiographies and memoirs; Life stories]

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein [Biographies; First-person narratives; Novels in verse]

My Ántonia [Coming-of-age stories; First person narratives; Historical fiction]

The Nerdy and the Dirty [Contemporary romances; First person narratives; Multiple perspectives]

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals [Food writing]

The Poet X [Coming-of-age stories; Novels in verse; Realistic fiction]

The Road [Apocalyptic fiction; Books to movies]

Starfish [Realistic fiction]

Truly Devious [Mysteries]

Autoboyography

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
ISBN: 9781481481694
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Accepting a friend's dare to enroll in an honors program in which the students are charged with writing a book in four months, Tanner, a bisexual teen who elected to go back into the closet when his progressive family relocated to Utah, falls in love with Sebastian Brother, the Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take.

The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court

The Courage of Their Convictions by Peter H. Irons
ISBN: 9781501140891
Publication Date: 2015-11-28
Profiles civil rights cases on the First Amendment, school integration, segregation, the teaching of evolution, abortion, libel, sodomy laws and nine other important issues.

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough; Michael Braungart
ISBN: 9780865475878
Publication Date: 2002-04-22
The authors argue that the traditional "reduce, reuse, recycle" maxim promoted by environmentalists is not an effective long-term solution to industrial waste, and describes their principles of "eco-effectiveness" which call for a nature-based model of manufacturing.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
ISBN: 9780060731335
Publication Date: 2009-08-25
The authors explore the economics of real-world issues often viewed as insignificant, such as the extent to which the Roe v. Wade decision affected violent crime, and examine the hidden incentives behind all sorts of human behavior.

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Starr Carter is a teen between two worlds: her school, which is rich, fancy, and white; and her neighborhood, which is poor and black. She navigates this differing terrain every day of her life until her worlds collide when she witnesses the fatal police shooting of her best friend, Khalil, an unarmed black teen. Khalil's death goes viral, and Starr is caught in the middle between the protesters in the street and her friends at school. With the eyes of the world on her, Starr has to decide: Will she say what happened that night? Will it matter?

The Hazel Wood

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
ISBN: 9781250147905
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
When the scary, magical world in her late grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780345514400
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and how Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein,

Mary's Monster by Lita Judge
ISBN: 9781626725003
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
An illustrated biography of the life of English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of the greatest authors of all time. The book pairs free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.

My Ántonia

My Antonia by Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780525562870
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly about a young Bohemian girl named Ántonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.

The Nerdy and the Dirty

The Nerdy and the Dirty by B. T. Gottfred
ISBN: 9781250129772
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
When a cool girl, with an X-rated internal life, and a socially-inept guy end up spending winter break at the same resort, they find themselves undeniably drawn to each other despite their differences.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780143038580
Publication Date: 2007-08-28
Follows the three major food chains that feed humans--industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer--from the earth to four meals, exploring the ethical and political effects of one's food choices.

The Poet X

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
ISBN: 9780062662804
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.

The Road

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780307387899
Publication Date: 2007-03-28
Apocalypse grips the earth; wildlife has disappeared; and starvation prevails. Amidst this bleak backdrop, a man and his young son slowly make their way toward the coast. Avoiding roves of marauding cannibals and fighting off starvation, they gain hope and stamina in knowing they are some of the remaining few virtuous people.

Starfish

Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
ISBN: 9781481487726
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
Apocalypse grips the earth; wildlife has disappeared; and starvation prevails. Amidst this bleak backdrop, a man and his young son slowly make their way toward the coast. Avoiding roves of marauding cannibals and fighting off starvation, they gain hope and stamina in knowing they are some of the remaining few virtuous people.

Truly Devious

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
ISBN: 9780062338051
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
A first entry in a new series introduces sharp and funny detective Stevie Bell, whose first year at an elite boarding school finds her unraveling two mysteries, including one from the school's past and one in the present. The first is a cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened, and the second is a murder.

Summer Reading 2018: List B - Perspectives from American Authors