As you may already know, we will be dedicating 15mins everyday for silent reading. Here is a list of books, I suggest, that are good reads. Please read the brief description and see if it is a book you would like to read during our silent reading period. A gentle reminder, books read for silent reading must be left in your desk.
Happy Reading :)!
Title/ Author
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Brief
Description
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“And Then There Were None “
Agatha
Christie
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Ten strangers stranded on an island begin
disappearing one by one.
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“The Wave “
Todd
Strasser
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The Wave is based on a true incident that
occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969,
whereby a teacher recreates some of the forces of group pressure that
pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism, with near-disastrous results
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“Incarceron”
Catherine
Fisher
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To free herself from an upcoming arranged
marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic
prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
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“Alice I Think”
Susan
Juby
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Alice, who feels like a true misfit, has
been home-schooled for years and will soon enter a public high school.
Whether she's keenly critiquing her hippie mother's friends, her father's
idle pals or her generally inept teachers and counselors, Alice offers a
unique view of common teenage scenarios and complaints.
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“Miss Smithers”
Susan
Juby
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This sequel to Alice, I Think finds our
young Canadian protagonist participating in the town beauty pageant, much
against the wishes of her mother. As a representative of the pageant, Alice
is allotted a $400 clothing allowance, the main motive for her participation.
She details her hilarious experiences in both journal entries and a zine, which
deliciously skewers every group possible, from aging would-be rock stars to
vegetarians.
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“Scorpia Rising: An Alex Rider Misson”
Anthony
Horowitz
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Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of
his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to con Alex into
turning traitor, and they just keep coming back with more power. Now the
world's most dangerous terrorist organization is playing with fire in the
world's most combustible land. No one knows Scorpia like
Alex. And no one knows how best to get to Alex like Scorpia. Until now.
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“Wintergirls”
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Laurie Halse Anderson Eighteen-year-old
Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she
struggles with the same disorder.
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“Friday Night Lights”
H.G.
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Bissinger Pulitzer prize-winning
journalist Bissinger spent a year in Odessa, Texas, a town obsessed with its
champion high-school team, the Permian Panthers.
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“The Graveyard Book”
Neil
Gaiman
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After the grisly murder of his family, a
toddler wanders into a graveyard where the supernatural residents agree to
raise him as one of their won.
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“I Am Number 4”
Pittacus Lore
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In the beginning they were a group of
nine. Nine aliens who left their home planet of Lorien when it fell under
attack by the evil Mogadorian. Nine aliens who scattered on Earth. Nine
aliens who look like ordinary teenagers living ordinary lives, but who have
extraordinary, paranormal skills. Nine aliens who might be sitting next to
you now.
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“Pop”
Gordon Korman
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When Marcus moves to a new town, he
doesn’t have any friends. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he
strikes up an unlikely friendship with former NFL star Charlie Popovich,
nicknamed “The King of Pop”. Charlie is a charismatic prankster, and the best
football player Marcus has ever seen. But when his behavior starts getting
more and more erratic, Marcus learns the secret that Charlie’s family is
desperate to hide.
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“Shiver”
Maggie Stiefvater
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Grace has spent years watching the wolves
in the woods behind her house. One yelloweyed wolf—her wolf—watches back. He
feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't know why.
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"Bully Boys"
Eric Walters
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The Bully Boys tells the story of
fourteen-year-old Thomas Roberts, who finds himself looking after the family
farm when his father goes off to fight for the British army during the War of
1812.
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