SUMMER 2018: List of Selections, Authors
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- A Fortress and a Legacy by Ross Greene (Michael Sorrow III and David Greene)
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Tessa Levy)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Morgan Petrini)
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Lucy Xu)
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Laney Bunce and Zoe Jafflin)
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Reagan Glass and Hrydesh Patel)
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Josh Burgess)
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (Callum Guo, Arya Joshi, and Nikhil Vishwanath)
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Lily Chahine, Tanna Irvin, Malachi Robinson)
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Kyndall Dunn)
- Every Day by David Leviathan (Reese Cooper and Gabrielle Lewis) (Noah Thomas and Seth Lewis)
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (Olivia Henderson)
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream by Buzz Bissinger (Greer Hardesty, Ben Jackson)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Kwamena Awotwi)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (William Addison Wood)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Durotimi Adisa and Rohan Jhanjee)
- Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Ivie Cullen-Dean, Teagan Fritts, and Clara Snell)
- I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Cece Ng and Alex Rowe)
- Looking for Alaska by John Green (Jenna Codner and Hannah Granot) (Caroline Gaster, Ava Saykaly, Grace Sorgeloos)
- Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira (Izzie Baldwin)
- Matched by Allie Condie (Bethany Getachew and Asha Gorjala)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Carolyn Koch and Safia Tejani)
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Mahala Broad and Alexandra Robinson)
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Ellerin Robins)
- One of Us Is Lying by Katherine McManus (Isha Darshane and Niha Shavele)
- Popular: Boys, Booze, and Jesus by Tindell Baldwin (Haley O'Donnell)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Malcolm Wiley)
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Ashani Sharma)
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Alexia Cainion)
- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho (Sydney Lopez)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Hailey Lightner and Ama Maiki) WARNING: this book deals explicitly with themes of trauma and may not be the right choice for all readers. We are limiting this group to rising seniors.
- The Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten (Wesley Maxey)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Lilly Johnson and Athena Nassar)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (Vincy Chiou)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (AnaSimone Guillaume and Zoe Huey) (Catherine Changus and Madisyn Robinson) (Madison Polk and Jacy Watson)
- The January Children (African Poetry Book) by Safia Elhillo (Jayden Khatib)
- The Liar Society by Lisa and Laura Roecker (Jourdan Bolton and Alexis Hill)
- The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu (Avinash Chugani and Joshua Kim)
- The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachmann (Michael Berkey and Charlie Hatcher)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Kayla Stadeker)
- The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (Sarah Olatidoye)
- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (Anna Kathryn Hodges and Ilana Lavine)
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (Roshni Shah)
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Jessica Hatfield, Madison Quarles, and Carly Warren)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race (Revised and Updated) by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Kira Green)