When you return to school, come prepared to actively engage in discussions about your choice book or assigned English coursework. Your participation and understanding will be important.
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Teenage boys Rashad and Quinn, one Black, one White—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian—half, his mom's side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life.
A young boy named Bird lives in a future America where children are taken from parents deemed unpatriotic, and he begins searching for his missing mother. As he uncovers the truth, the story explores themes of censorship, cultural identity, and the power of art and resistance.
Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s high expectations of her; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over heaping plates of food.
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew him into a tangle of conspiracy and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Beartown is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that delves into the complexities of small-town life, the bonds of friendship, and the consequences of silence. Set in a remote Swedish town, the story revolves around a junior ice hockey team and a violent act that shatters the community.
Mad Honey tells the story of two women who have fled abusive pasts to make a new life in the small town of Adams, New Hampshire. When one is found dead, and the other finds her son accused of the murder, the tense courtroom drama that unfolds shines light on the true cost of secrets kept for love.
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