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2020 Mount Sinai Summer Reading List 10th Grade
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The Berlin Boxing Club by Rob SharenowIn 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.
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Blanca & Rojaby Anna-Marie McLemoreProfoundly different sisters Blanca and Roja del Cisne, who know that due to a family curse, they are tied to a flock of swans, and one day one will become a swan while the other remains human, become involved with two local boys.
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Conversionby Katherine HoweWhen girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at her high school, only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where a similarly bizarre epidemic occured three centuries ago.
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Cuckoo songby Frances HardingeIn 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 & boneby Laini TaylorSeventeen-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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Days of blood & starlightby Laini TaylorThe otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people.
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The Declarationby Gemma MalleySet 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.
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Dreams of gods & monstersby Laini TaylorA conclusion to the best-selling trilogy finds Karou and Akiva joining their rival human armies against brutal angel invaders, an alliance that is tested by Karou's inability to forgive Akiva for killing the only family she has ever known.
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Every dayby David LevithanEvery morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
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Everything, everythingby Nicola YoonConfined 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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Fangirlby Rainbow RowellWhen twin sisters Cath and Wren go to college, Cath fears that it may be time to give up her love of the Simon Snow series, and possibly grow apart from her sister.
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Frankly in loveby David YoonTorn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem. A first novel.
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Girl in translationby Jean KwokEmigrating 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. A first novel.
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Glass swordby Victoria AveyardAggressively pursued by her royal former friend when she flees the court that would denounce and control her Silver powers, Mare discovers that there are others like her and endeavors to organize a rebellion against their oppressive leaders.
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Hoops of steelby John FoleyPassionate 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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iBoyby Kevin BrooksWhen 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. By the author of Dawn.
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Icecore : a thrillerby Matt WhymanWhen his computer hacking talents and misguided curiosity culminate in his arrest for illegally penetrating the security at a top financial institution, 17-year-old Carl Hobbes is shipped off to an unlisted American military installation from which he struggles to escape and clear his name. Reprint.
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King's cageby Victoria AveyardWith Mare powerless as a prisoner of Maven Calore, the boy she once loved, her rebel Reds continue to organize and train as they prepare for war, while exiled prince Cal sets out to rescue Maven from captivity.
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Looking for Alaskaby John GreenSixteen-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 deadby Ava DellairaA troubled teen writes poignant letters to influential celebrities who died young, confronting in the process her own efforts to fit in, navigate her splintering family and come to terms with a past trauma. A first novel.
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The Naturalsby Jennifer BarnesSeventeen-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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Red queenby Victoria AveyardWhen her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion. A first novel.
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Shadowlandsby Kate BrianBelieving the serial killer she turned in has found her, Rory, a girl in witness protection, investigates, only to discover a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown.
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Turtles all the way downby John GreenAza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.
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War stormby Victoria AveyardWar is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?
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The blind side : evolution of a gameby Michael LewisFollows 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 centuryby Sarah Elizabeth MillerDraws 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.
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A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldierby Ishmael BeahIn 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 fatesby Wes MooreTraces 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 bombby Neal BascombThe 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 storyby Caren Barzelay StelsonTells 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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