[BHS Etree] LIBRARY: Summer Reading Lists from BHS Library

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Here are some summer reading list picks from the BHS library:


Summer Reads for 2018 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E7I8ZNBykNwOegzPy_TL3joN5DRFaNR122QdOOezQhQ/edit>


Try adding these engrossing and genre-bending novels from a diverse set of authors to your summer reading list. You can also checkout the audiobook versions of these titles through the Berkeley Public Library Overdrive collection<https://berkeleypubliclibrary.overdrive.com/>. Happy reading! - Your BHS Library Team


[Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)]


Dread Nation<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30223025-dread-nation?ac=1&from_search=true>


Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.


[Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)]


Children of Blood and Bone <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34728667-children-of-blood-and-bone?from_search=true>


Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy.

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers—and her growing feelings for the enemy.


[Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1)]


Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19547856-simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda?from_search=true>


Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.


[The Poet X]


The Poet X<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33294200-the-poet-x?from_search=true>


Renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut novel introduces Xiomara Batista, a  young girl in Harlem who discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.


[The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood, #1)]


The Hazel Wood<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34275232-the-hazel-wood?from_search=true> by Melissa Albert

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.


[Picture Us in the Light]


Picture Us in the Light<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35960060-picture-us-in-the-light?from_search=true> by Kelly Loy Gilbert


Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words. When Danny digs deeper into his parents' past, he uncovers a secret that disturbs the foundations of his family history and the carefully constructed facade his parents have maintained begins to crumble. With everything he loves in danger of being stripped away, Danny must face the ghosts of the past in order to build a future that belongs to him.


[The Beauty That Remains]


The Beauty that Remains<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29736467-the-beauty-that-remains?from_search=true> by Ashley Woodfolk


Autumn always knew exactly who she was—a talented artist and a loyal friend. Shay was defined by two things: her bond with her twin sister, Sasha, and her love of music. And Logan always turned to writing love songs when his love life was a little less than perfect.But when tragedy strikes each of them, somehow music is no longer enough. Now Logan can’t stop watching vlogs of his dead ex-boyfriend. Shay is a music blogger struggling to keep it together. And Autumn sends messages that she knows can never be answered. Despite the odds, one band's music will reunite them and prove that after grief, beauty thrives in the people left behind.


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The Astonishing Color of After <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35604686-the-astonishing-color-of-after?ac=1&from_search=true>


Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love





9th Grade Summer Reads<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ooEq6KKs9AD5z9Ib2IeivlpzohhC_5vcC5PGgXStJds/edit>


10 Reads to Get You Ready!


We hope these titles are inspiring, thought provoking, and keep your mind in shape over the summer as you prepare to begin your career at the Hive. We look forward to meeting all the incoming fresh-folk in the fall. Please consider making purchases from our local independent bookstores (Pegasus<http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/>, Books Inc<http://www.booksinc.net/Berkeley>, Moe’s<http://www.moesbooks.com/>, Mrs. Dalloway’s<http://www.mrsdalloways.com/>) - they support literacy all year round! Thanks for reading, have a great summer break, and catch up with us on GoodReads<https://www.goodreads.com/>!  - BHS Library Team<https://sites.google.com/berkeley.net/bhslibrary/home/about-bhs-library>


FICTION


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ALL AMERICAN BOYS<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25657130-all-american-boys?ac=1&from_search=true> by Jason Reynolds

Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world.


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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see?ac=1&from_search=true> by Anthony Doerr

An imaginative<http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/anthony-doerr> and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology….This story is “ about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.”


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HOMEGOING<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27071490-homegoing?from_search=true> by Yaa Gyasi

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.


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INEXPLICABLE LOGIC OF MY LIFE<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23447923-the-inexplicable-logic-of-my-life?ac=1&from_search=true> by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Everything is about to change. Until this moment, Sal has always been certain of his place with his adoptive gay father and their loving Mexican-American family. But now his own history unexpectedly haunts him, and life-altering events force him and his best friend, Samantha, to kconfront issues of faith, loss, and grief.


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THE HATE YOU GIVE<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075671-the-hate-u-give?ac=1&from_search=true> by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.


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YOU BRING THE DISTANT NEAR<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33155334-you-bring-the-distant-near?ac=1&from_search=true> by Mitali Perkins
Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve her Bengali identity.



NONFICTION


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THE 57 BUS<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33155325-the-57-bus?from_search=true> by Dashka Slater

“I first heard of the story when it occurred, reading the article about it in my sister’s high school newspaper in 2013. None of the words except the headline of the article stuck with me between then and the moment when I picked up The 57 Bus in 2017: “Agender Maybeck student set on fire”. Before reading the book, I had always regarded the incident as a tragedy, but nothing more. I didn’t know how deep and personal the story really was.”


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BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489625-between-the-world-and-me?ac=1&from_search=true> by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?


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HILLBILLY NATIONALISTS, URBAN RACE REBELS, AND BLACK POWER: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN RADICAL TIMES<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11036817-hillbilly-nationalists-urban-race-rebels-and-black-power?from_search=true> by Amy Sonnie (local author!)

The historians of the late 1960s have emphasised the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries and even racists. Tracy and Amy Sonnie have been interviewing activists from the 1960s for nearly 10 years and here reject this narrative, showing how working-class whites, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, fought inequality in the 1960s.


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MOST DANGEROUS: DANIEL ELLSBERG<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23310694-most-dangerous?ac=1&from_search=true> by Steve Sheinkin

The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War

On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, they revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed the relationship between American citizens and the politicians claiming to represent their interests.


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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21913812-this-changes-everything?ac=1&from_search=true> by Naomi Klein

You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it – it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring.


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WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738563-we-should-all-be-feminists?ac=1&from_search=true> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics.




Happy Reading!

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