SUMMER 2014

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BOOKS TO READ

BELOW ARE LISTS OF BOOKS THAT ARE POPULAR WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. CHECK THEM OUT ...

Read. Read. Recommend. Let others know... Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

A Step From Heaven by An Na

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Boy in the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson

Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth

The City of Bones series by Cassandra Clare

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolf

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

UGLIES

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Looking for Alaska by John Green

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

Blueprint Blaupause von Charlotte Kerner

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

THE BOOK THIEF

Der gelbe Vogel von Myron Levoy

Tschick von Wolfgang Herrndorf

Die Entdeckung der Currywurst von Uwe Timm

TSCHICK

SPEAK

"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party.

THE CURIOUS I NC I D E NT O F T H E DOG IN THE NI G HT TI ME

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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. But when the neighbour’s dog is mysteriously murdered, Christopher realises he must face his fears if he wants to find the culprit in this quirky who-done-it.

MAKE LEMONADE

Written in free verse, Make Lemonade tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college—she just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons outside the classroom.

T H E A RT O F R AC I N G I N T H E R A I N

! A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.

A STEP FROM HEAVEN

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Young Ju describes her family's bittersweet experience in the United States after their emigration from Korea. Four years old on the flight to California,Young Ju concludes that America is heaven. But when they arrive, they are weighed down by the difficulty of learning English, their insular family life, and the traditions of the country they left behind. Can she find heaven again?

THE SECRET LIFE O F B E E S

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the absence of her mother. One day Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother" Rosaleen insults three of the town's most vicious racists, and Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, the Black Madonna (who presides over their household), and the redeeming power of love.

THE CITY OF BONES

LOOKING FOR ALASKA

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

! When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died.

TSCHICK

«Ein klappriges Auto kam die Straße runtergefahren. Es fuhr langsam auf unser Haus zu und bog in die Garagenauffahrt ein. Eine Minute stand der hellblaue Lada Niva mit laufendem Motor vor unserer Garage, dann wurde der Motor abgestellt. Die Fahrertür ging auf, Tschick stieg aus. Er legte beide Ellenbogen aufs Autodach und sah zu, wie ich den Rasen sprengte. ‹Ah›, sagte er, und dann sagte er lange nichts mehr. ‹Macht das Spaß?›» Mutter in der Entzugsklinik,Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick auf. Tschick, eigentlich Andrej Tschichatschow, kommt aus einem der Asi-Hochhäuser in Hellersdorf, hat es von der Förderschule irgendwie bis aufs Gymnasium geschafft und wirkt doch nicht gerade wie das Musterbeispiel der Integration. Außerdem hat er einen geklauten Wagen zur Hand. Und damit beginnt eine Reise ohne Karte und Kompass durch die sommerglühende deutsche Provinz, unvergesslich wie die Flussfahrt von Tom Sawyer und Huck Finn.

DIE ENTDECKUNG DER CURRYWURST

Eine wunderbare Liebesgeschichte im Hamburg der letzten Kriegstage.In Erinnerung an seine Kindheit macht sich der Erzähler auf die Suche nach der ehemaligen Besitzerin einer Imbissbude am Hamburger Großneumarkt. Er findet die hochbetagte Lena Brücker in einem Altersheim und erfährt die Geschichte ihrer »schönsten Jahre« und wie es zur Entdeckung der Currywurst kam. Der Bogen spannt sich weit zurück in die letzten Apriltage des Jahres 1945 ...

T H E B OY I N T H E S T R I P E D PA J A M A S

! Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye…

DER GELBE VO G E L

Naomi, ein 12-jähriges jüdisches Mädchen, ist mit seiner Mutter aus Frankreich nach New York geflohen; den Vater haben die Deutschen getötet. Dieses Erlebnis hat Naomi tief verstört. Nun wird Alan gebeten sich ein wenig um sie zu kümmern. Der sportbegeisterte Junge übernimmt nur widerwillig die Aufgabe. Aber allmählich gelingt es ihm Zugang zu Naomi zu finden ihr Schweigen zu lösen und eine Beziehung zu ihr aufzubauen. Doch dieser Heilungsprozess wird durch ein schwerwiegendes Ereignis in Frage gestellt...