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Glenbard North High School Summer Reading 2026 |
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
YA F STE
The tragic story of the friendship between two migrant workers, George and mentally retarded Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm.
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Home is Not a Country
by Safia Elhillo
YA F ELH
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity.
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
by Laekan Zea Kemp
YA F KEM
Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
F HUR
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
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Required: 3-5 self-selected editorial through the New York Times.
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Severance
by Ling Ma
F MA
A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader.
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
F GYA
A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice.
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
F KES
Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he turns the place upside-down and challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
F PLA
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time.
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Bloomingdale Public Library
101 Fairfield Way, Bloomingdale, Illinois 60108
630-529-3120https://mybpl.org |
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