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Mount Sinai Suggested Summer Reading Entering 10th Grade
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The Berlin Boxing Club
by Rob Sharenow
In 1936 Berlin, 14-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust. By the author of the award-winning My Mother the Cheerleader. 25,000 first printing.
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Conversion
by Katherine Howe
A stressful senior year of college applications, valedictorian competitions and interpersonal dramas at St. Joan's Academy in Danvers culminates in eerie behavior by a circle of girls who disturbingly emulate historical figures from The Crucible's Salem Village.
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Cuckoo song
by Frances Hardinge
In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something is terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family
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Daughter of smoke & bone
by Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known, in a unique fantasy by an award-winning author about forbidden love, an epic battle and hope for a world remade.
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The Declaration
by Gemma Malley
Set in the year 2140 where people take drugs to live forever, the children of Grange Hall are the illegal surplus of parents who broke the rules, yet when a mysterious boy enters the scene and tries to convince Anna to escape with him to the freedom of the outside world, she must make the right decision in order to save her life. Reprint.
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Every day
by David Levithan
Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through each experience without raising alarm, "A" endures a lonely existence before falling in love with a girl named Rhiannon, with whom he endeavors to reunite.
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Everything, everything
by Nicola Yoon
Confined to her home because she is allergic to the outside world, a teenage girl's life changes when she begins a romance with the new boy next door that challenges everything she's ever known
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Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell
Being consummate fans of the Simon Snow series helped Cath and her twin sister, Wren, cope as little girls whose mother left them, but now, as they start college but not as roommates, Cath fears she is unready to live without Wren holding her hand--and without her passion for Snow
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Girl in translation
by Jean Kwok
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
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Hoops of steel
by John Foley
Passionate about basketball, troubled teenager Jackson O'Connell chronicles how the game colors the events of his senior year in high school both on and off the court. Original.
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iBoy
by Kevin Brooks
When a bizarre accident causes fragments of a shattered iPhone to become embedded in his brain and profoundly affect his thinking process, Tom develops extraordinary senses and mental capabilities and considers taking revenge on violent gangs who are terrorizing the South London housing projects.
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Icecore : a Carl Hobbes thriller / Matt Whyman
by Matt Whyman
Seventeen-year-old Englishman Carl Hobbes meant no harm when he hacked into Fort Knox's security system, but at Camp Twilight in the Arctic Circle, known as the Guantanamo Bay of the north, he is tortured to reveal information about a conspiracy of which he was never a part.
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
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Love letters to the dead
by Ava Dellaira
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love
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The Naturals
by Jennifer Barnes
"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Simultaneous eBook.
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The blind side : evolution of a game
by Michael Lewis
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL
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The Borden murders : Lizzie Borden & the trial of the century
by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
Draws on sensationalized, period newspaper articles to recreate the events of the infamous Borden murders and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden, sorting out fact from fiction to explore Lizzie's story and consider what probably happened. Simultaneous eBook.
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Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
When her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline is considered bad luck by her family, thus when her father's new wife begins to treat her poorly while spoiling the others, Adeline can turn to no one for comfort and must endure the difficult times on her own.
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Enrique's Journey : The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite With His Mother
by Sonia Nazario
A young adult adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's highly praised adult book by the same title documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States, in an edition complemented by an epilogue providing new updates on Enrique's story.
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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier
by Ishmael Beah
In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.
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The other Wes Moore : one name, two fates
by Wes Moore
Traces the parallel lives of two youths with the same name born a year apart in the same community, describing how the author grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow and promising business leader while his counterpart suffered a life of violence and imprisonment. Reprint. A best-selling book.
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Sabotage : the mission to destroy Hitler's atomic bomb
by Neal Bascomb
The author of the award-winning The Nazi Hunters chronicles the World War II efforts of heroic Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Simultaneous eBook.
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Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
by Caren Barzelay Stelson
Tells the story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki through the eyes of Sachiko Yasui, who was six when the devastation was wrought, describing her experiences in the aftermath of the attack as well as her long journey to find peace
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