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Lake Park High School Summer Reading 2025 |
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All students are encouraged to read one (or more) books before returning to school in the fall. |
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Brownstone
by Samuel Teer
GN YA F TEE
Left alone with her Guatemalan father for the summer while her mom goes on a once-in-a-lifetime trip without her, Almudena struggles to adjust to this new reality by getting to know the residents of his Latin American neighborhood while helping his dad fix his broken-down brownstone—and their relationship.
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Looking for Smoke
by K. A. Cobell
YA F COB
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them--Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli--have a complicated history with Samantha. Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.
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My Side of the River
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
B GUTIERREZ
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage children affected by broken immigration laws.
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Powerless
by Lauren Roberts
YA F ROB
An Ordinary blending in with the Elites to stay alive and out of trouble, Paeydn is thrown into the Purging Trials when she unwittingly saves one of Ilya's princes, a brutal competition to showcase the Elites' powers—the very thing she lacks.
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Six More Months of June
by Daisy Garrison
Class valedictorian Mina and golden boy Caplan, whose friendship exists miraculously outside their high school's social order, find things changing between them when Mina starts dating Caplan's best friend, which brings up unresolved feelings as senior year comes to an end.
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Tress of the Emerald Sea
by Brandon Sanderson
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his fathertakes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea.
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Bloomingdale Public Library
101 Fairfield Way, Bloomingdale, Illinois 60108
630-529-3120https://mybpl.org |
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