SHS Community Summer Reading 2019
Summer break is here! Finally, time to relax, enjoy family and friends - and read! The Salem High School required summer reading program is designed to keep our learning community engaged in meaningful and enjoyable reading throughout the summer. Title choices for all SHS students can be found below. (Print a copy of this year's summer reading list in English or Spanish.) If you have Mr. Fonseca, Ms. Somes, or Ms. Valle as your ESL teacher, review your summer reading list here! All students, teachers and staff members are invited to the Book Club Social on Thursday, September 12, from 2:10 to 3:00pm.
Looking for help locating a copy of a particular title? Completed your required summer reading and looking for more great reads? Visit us at the SHS Library! Browse our collection - in person or online - and take advantage of some great online tools for discovering new books. Still have questions? Please contact Mrs. O'Keefe (phone: 978.740.1128 email: jo'keefe@salemk12.org). Enjoy your summer break, and happy reading! :-)
Looking for help locating a copy of a particular title? Completed your required summer reading and looking for more great reads? Visit us at the SHS Library! Browse our collection - in person or online - and take advantage of some great online tools for discovering new books. Still have questions? Please contact Mrs. O'Keefe (phone: 978.740.1128 email: jo'keefe@salemk12.org). Enjoy your summer break, and happy reading! :-)
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Visit us! SHS Library Summer Hours July 9 Through August 22 Tuesdays - 9am to 1pm Wednesdays - noon to 4pm Thursdays - 9am to 1pm |
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SHS students, please read at least one of these books:
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Becoming, by Michelle Obama (If asked for a password to access the Biography in Context database, enter witches!)
An autobiography of lawyer and American First Lady Michelle Obama Learn more! Watch "Becoming Michelle: a First Lady's Journey," with Robin Roberts, on 20/20. |
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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. |
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The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
"Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life as he seeks out other survivors." -- from NoveList Plus |
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Educated, by Tara Westover
This memoir "traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond." -- from NoveList Plus |
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Grendel, by John Gardner
Grendel, the monster, tells his side of the Beowulf story, and compares his values with the chief values of human beings. |
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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play, by Kobe Bryant
"In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, the NBA great nicknamed "The Black Mamba" has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of his legendary "Mamba Mentality." - from NoveList Plus Learn More! Read "Dear Basketball," written by Kobe Bryant and posted on Players' Tribune on 11/29/15. How did Kobe outsmart the referees? Watch this interview with Jimmy Kimmel and find out! |
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Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
The author shares this story, told through black-and-white comic strip images, of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime. |
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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. |
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Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum
Trudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage, embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and uncovers secrets her mother has kept hidden for five decades. |
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Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor. |
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Undocumented: a Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Throughout his youth, Dan-El navigated...two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of the class. From Collegiate, Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived, and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement." -- from the NOBLE Catalog |
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With the Fire on High, by Elizabeth Acevedo
"Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while raising her daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicates her dream of working in a professional kitchen." - from NoveList Plus |