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Summer Note-taking Guide - Please use this guide when reading this summer. The notes will need to be submitted during the first two weeks of school and will count as a graded assignment.
Required Reading
Required Reading
Theme: Global stories
All incoming ninth graders are EXPECTED to read one book from the list below over the summer months. Teachers will begin the school year with lessons and assessments that will incorporate these texts.
*You are responsible for securing your own copy.
**Each title below is linked to a book summary on Goodreads
Non-Fiction:
Call Me American (Memoir) by Abdi Iftin
Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University by Francisco Jimenez
Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings *
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
Fiction:
Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
Legend by Marie Lu
Every Day by David Levithan *
I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki (graphic novel) *
Refugee by Alan Gratz
* Note: These books contain explicit and/or profane language that parents may want to be aware of. Click on the linked book titles, and/or visit Common Sense Media, for more information to inform your reading decisions.
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