High School Level Summer Reading List For Students In Grades 9-12Like this list

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• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

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  Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Boy's Life

  a Memoir

  Wolff, Tobias, 1945-

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  Meet the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. . As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Manhattan Beach

  Egan, Jennifer,

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  Compelling novel about a young heroine, Anna, who works at the Brooklyn Navy Yards during WWII and becomes one of the first woman divers, while dealing with her elusive gangster father & other colorful characters.

• Code Girls

  the Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

  Mundy, Liza, 1960-

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  This year's Greenwich Reads Pick is a good one, More than ten thousand women were recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges served as codebreakers during World War II. These women moved to Washington and learned the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Railroad

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Cora: a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When a fellow slave convinces her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes of a Native Son

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  Powerful work written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange the Dreamer

  Taylor, Laini,

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  First in a new fantasy series, this installment introduces the reader to Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seveneves

  Stephenson, Neal,

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  A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Born a Crime

  Stories From a South African Childhood

  Noah, Trevor, 1984-

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  "Daily Show" host & comedian Trevor Noah shares funny yet poignant tales about growing up in South Africa and how, with his mother's help, overcame prejudice and set out on a path of his own making.

• All the Bright Places

  Niven, Jennifer

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  When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries. Fans of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Alone

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption.

  Stevenson, Bryan

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  Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The History of Jane Doe

  Belanger, Michael,

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  Fans of John Green will want to check out Michael Belanger’s just published first novel The History of Jane Doe. The novel, set in fictional Burgerville, Connecticut, revolves around two marginalized high school juniors, history buff Ray Green (who…Read moreRead more of this annotation