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Summer Reading Lists and Resources : One School One Book

One Book One School programs -- High School

  Bay Path Vocational Technical High School, Charlton
 
2014 - Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan
  2013 - Unwind by Neal Shusterman


  Bishop Stang High School
  2013  - The Miracle of Father Kapaun  By Roy Wenzl and Travis Heyin


  Boston Latin Academy (Common Reading grades 7-12)
  2013  - Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison


  Chelsea High School
  2013 - Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos.


  Mt. Alvernia High School
  2012 - grades 7 & 8 read Home of the Brave
  -  grades 9-12 read both Home of the Brave and Strength in What Remains     
  Theme: theology, immigration.  

  2011 - grades 7 & 8 read Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
   - grades 9-12 read The Help by Kathryn Stockett
   Theme: theology, civil rights.

  Newton North High School gr. 9-12
  2015 -  Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin.
  2014 - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
  2013 - Outcasts United by Warren St. John
  2012 - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 
  2011 - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
(Two Schools, One Book with Newton South HS)

  Newton South High School gr. 9-12
  2016   One School, One Question :
            "Who has power in America's Democracy?"
             Students choose one title from these five:
                All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
                Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister
                Hamilton: the musical by  Lin Manuel Miranda
                Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
                Ms Marvel: no normal by Willow G. Wilson         
  2015 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
  2014  - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  2013   - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  2012   - Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  2011   - Zeitoun  by Dave Eggers 
(Two Schools, One Book with Newton North HS)
  2010   - This I Believe II  ed. 
  2009   - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  2008   - Farhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  Norfolk County Agricultural High School 
  2014 - When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka


  Salem High School  (9th, 10th, 11th grades)
  2014 - The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti 


  St. Joseph Preparatory High School, Cambridge
  2014 - A Chance in the World by Steve Pemberton


  St. Sebastian's School, Needham  All School Read, grades 7-12
  2013 - A Chance in the World  by Steve Pemberton


  Sekonk High School
  2014 Being Henry David by Cal Armisted


  Waltham High School and Waltham Community - Waltham Reads
  2014 - Waltham Reads
  2013 - Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson.  


  Wilmington High School 
  2013 - Grades 9 & !0  - Ice Time by Jay Atkinson 
          Grades 11 & 12  - Legends of Winter Hill by Jay Atkinson              


 
 

One School One Book programs -- Middle School

  Concord Middle School
  2013 -  Wonder by R. J. Palacio will be this year's all-school read.


  Epraim Curtis Middle School, Sudbury
  2014 - Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan


  Hale Middle School, Stow
  2013 - The Dreamer by Pamela Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sis 


  St. Sebastian's School, Needham  All School Read, grades 7-12
  2013 - A Chance in the World  by Steve Pemberton


  Willington Middle School
  2013 -  Wonder by R. J. Palacio


 

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