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Cape Elizabeth High School Library, 2010 Summer Reading List Grades 9-12 The library owns one copy of each title below. Students may check out as ma ny library books as they would like for the summer. Happy Reading! --Mrs. Bell, Librarian Diaries and Journals Author Title Annotation Alexie, Sherman Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 2007 Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. Anonymous Go ask Alice. 1971 Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. Fielding, Helen Bridget Jones’ Diary. 1998 Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something Singleton who is c ertain she would have all the answers if she could: a) lose 7 pounds b) stop smoking and c) develop inner poise. Filopovic, Zlata Stolen voices. 2006 Young people’s war diaries, from World War I to Iraq. McDonald, Cornelia A woman’s civil war. 1992 On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distance—her husband’s regimen t among them—Cornelia Peake McDonald began her diary of events in war-torn Winchester, Virginia. Pfeffer, Susan Beth Life as we knew it. 2006 Through journal entries 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Rees, Celia Witch Child. 2000 In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Pur itans near Salem, Mass. Turner, Nancy These is my words. 1998 Inspired by the true story of the author's pioneering great-grandmother, this mesmerizing saga tells of the emotional, intellectual, and romantic awakening of a spirited young woman of the l ate 19th century in the American West. Upton, Joe Alaska blues. 1977 For seven months, Joe Upton steered his 32-foot boat through the open channels and narrow, twisting passageways of Southeast Alaska, trolling for salmon. Here is his moving account of that season of fishing--the lonely hours at sea as well as the close community of small-boat fishers.
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Cape Elizabeth High School Library, 2010 Summer Reading List
Grades 9-12
The library owns one copy of each title below. Students may check out as many library books as they would likefor the summer. Happy Reading! --Mrs. Bell, Librarian
Diaries and JournalsAuthor Title Annotation
Alexie,Sherman
Absolutely True Diaryof a Part-Time Indian.
2007
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend anall-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
Anonymous Go ask Alice. 1971 Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the
drug world.
Fielding,
Helen
Bridget Jones’ Diary.
1998
Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she
could: a) lose 7 pounds b) stop smoking and c) develop inner poise.
Filopovic,
Zlata
Stolen voices. 2006 Young people’s war diaries, from World War I to Iraq.
McDonald,Cornelia
A woman’s civil war.1992
On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in thedistance—her husband’s regiment among them—Cornelia Peake McDonald began her diary of events in
war-torn Winchester, Virginia.
Pfeffer,
Susan Beth
Life as we knew it.
2006
Through journal entries 16-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor
hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Rees, Celia Witch Child. 2000 In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New
World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Mass.
Turner,
Nancy
These is my words.
1998
Inspired by the true story of the author's pioneering great-grandmother, this mesmerizing saga tells
of the emotional, intellectual, and romantic awakening of a spirited young woman of the late 19th
century in the American West.
Upton, Joe Alaska blues. 1977 For seven months, Joe Upton steered his 32-foot boat through the open channels and narrow, twisting
passageways of Southeast Alaska, trolling for salmon. Here is his moving account of that season of
fishing--the lonely hours at sea as well as the close community of small-boat fishers.
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Maggie faerie. 2009 musicians, his talent attracts Nuala, a faerie muse who fosters and feeds on creative energies, but
soon he finds himself battling the Queen of the Fey for the very lives of Deirdre and Nuala.
Werlin,
Nancy
Impossible. 2008 When 17-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she
realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curseand to save them both.
School DazeAuthor Title Annotation
Waters, Dan Generation dead.
2008
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth
girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they
encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Rosoff, Meg What I was. 2007 In 1960s Britain, a young boarding school student breaks rules to maintain a friendship with a reclusiveteen who lives in a hut by the sea, and after his friend falls ill, learns a dark secret that changes both
of their lives.
Anderson,
Laurie Halse
Twisted. 2007 After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father,
seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but
when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his
destructive thoughts.
Selzer,Adam
How to get suspendedand influence people.
2006
Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.
Schutt,Christine
All souls. 2008 Astra Dell is stricken with a devastating illness, leaving the students and teachers at her distinguishedNew York prep school reeling as they try to cope with their friend's impending death and their own
longings and attachments.
Lockhart, E The disreputable
history of FrankieLandau-Banks. 2008
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school,
and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequencesthat could change her life forever.
Coll, Susan Acceptance. 2007 Follows the lives of three high school juniors as they apply to a number of colleges and cope with the
pressures of their teachers and parents, and an admissions advisor, Olivia, who struggles to sift
through applications after her university was accidentally placed on a list of the top fifty schools in
the country.
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Short TakesAuthor Title Annotation
Akpan,
Uwem
Say you’re one of
them. 2008
A collection of short stories by Akpan that celebrate the resilience and wisdom of children in third
world countries.
Savage, Sam Firmin. 2006 Firmin, a rat born in the basement of a Boston book store, becomes consumed by the words he eats,and filled with the thoughts, deeds, and hopes of such novels as "Jane Eyre," and "Lady Chatterley's
Lover," ventures out into the world.
Strout,
Elizabeth
Olive Kitteridge.
2008
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired
school teacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't alwaysrecognize the changes in those around her.
Sporting LifeAuthor Title Annotation
Hobbs, Will Go big or go home.
2008
Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of
Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his South Dakota bedroom.
Lupica, Mike The big field. 2008 Baseball player Hutch needs to work through issues about a new teammate at the same time he deals
with his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Myers,
Walter Dean
Game. 2008 Drew Lawson, counting on basketball to get him into college and out of Harlem, struggles to keep his
cool when the coach brings in two white players that clearly threaten Drew's game.Tharp, Tim Knights of the hill
country. 2006
In his senior year, high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for himself and
discovers that he might be interested in more than just football.
Grisham,John
Playing for pizza.2007
Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery,desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy!
