Teen Summer Reading | Pelham Public Library

21) In the time of the butterflies

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AP Lit and Comp: Decision Making

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"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las...

22) Inside out & back again

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Book, PLAYAWAYS

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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

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Brontë, Charlotte

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A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.

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Brontë, Charlotte

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A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.

25) later works black boy american hunger the outsider

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26) The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale

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Spiegelman, Art

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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.

27) The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

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Douglass, Frederick

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Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA. His autobiography details his experiences as a slave and is considered the most famous such work, though many similar were written by his contemporaries. This work also influenced and fueled the abolitionist movement, in which Douglass was an important figure.

28) One of us is lying

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McManus, Karen M

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students, all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case"--

29) Bone: Vol. 1,Out from Boneville

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Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn.

30) Peak

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

31) Robinson Crusoe

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Book, Audiobook, eBook

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Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character. As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage. His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third time. His journey takes him to Brazil where he becomes a plantation owner. A third and final shipwrecking, however, leaves him stranded for 28 years on a remote island. There he becomes a devout

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Shusterman, Neal

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"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--

33) Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you

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Reynolds, Jason

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Book, Audiobook

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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap. "A history of racist and antiracist...

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Spinelli, Jerry

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

35) Strange fruit: volume 2 :More uncelebrated narratives from Black history

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Gill, Joel Christian

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A collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the eight illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. Joel Christian Gill offers historical and cultural commentary on heroes whose stories are not often found in history books, such as Cathay Williams, the only known female buffalo soldier, and Eugene Bullard, a fighter pilot...

36) The tempest

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Shakespeare , William

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AP Lit and Comp: Decision Making

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

37) The things they carried: a work of fiction

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Book, Audiobook, eBook, Kindle

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This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left...

38) A thousand splendid suns

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Hosseini, Khaled

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Book, Audiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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From the Publisher: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate,...

39) Touching Spirit Bear

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Book, eAudiobook

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After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

40) A wrinkle in time: the graphic novel

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A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.