These books are recommended reading. You should plan to read at least one of these during the summer.
ISBN: 9780062472502
Perfect for aspiring coders everywhere. The story of two teenage tech phenoms who met at Girls Who Code summer camp, teamed up to create a viral video game, ended up becoming world famous. The book also includes bonus content to help you start coding! Funny and inspiring.
ISBN: 9780525582168
In this memoir, Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government.
ISBN: 0099470438
Christopher Boone is 15 and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
The books are available on SORA as ebooks and/or audiobooks.
ISBN: 9780399254123
A story of loss and of fear -- and ultimately, of survival. Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?
ISBN: 9781419701764
This is the funniest book you'll ever read about death. On the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out how to survive one more year of school: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Then Greg's mom forces him to become friends with a girl who has cancer. This brings about the destruction of Greg's entire life.
ISBN: 9781442472426
Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in a world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life--and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.