Resilience
Seekonk High Summer Reading Program 2020
This summer, SHS is offering students CHOICE for summer reading. All students will
CHOOSE ONE book out of a menu of three great non-fiction and fiction books,
CHOOSE a pathway to complete different levels of summer work on the chosen book
Ready to start? Watch these short book trailers to help you make your choice!
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific by Mary Cronk Farrell
NON-FICTION - In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the US into WW II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them.
Born A Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
NON-FICTION MEMOIR - Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
FICTION - Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?