Clark English I Advanced AcademicsSummer Reading 2021-2022

Welcome to Advanced English I,

Reading is one of the best things you can do to prepare yourself for the challenges of the upcoming school year.Enjoying a good book will help expand your vocabulary, deepen critical thinking, and enhance focus andimagination. Equally important, reading is the very best way to strengthen your writing skills!

As an Advanced English student, we ask that you read at least ONE of the six books from the list below thissummer.Consider the following question as you read:

● Who am I?Be ready to discuss your book when school starts; you will have formative and summative assessments centeredaround your summer reading the First Quarter.

You can check out digital books on Sora, Libby, and Overdrive through your school library. The following listcontains titles and descriptions (courtesy of Amazon).

Happy Reading!

The Advanced English I Team

All American Boys Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is afist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakesRashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’sresistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch atevery punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL asordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into theconcrete pavement?...Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, thisfour-starred reviews tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashadand Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type takenfrom the headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth…

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The Hate U Give Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancysuburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses thefatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and agangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and thelocal drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to knowis: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer thatis Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could alsoendanger her life...

Turtles All the Way Down John Green

John Green, the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed, returns with astory of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelongfriendship.

Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s ahundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most FearlessFriend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the shortdistance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a goodstudent, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within theever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts…

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There, There Tommy Orange

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award,Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering bestselling novel follows twelve characters fromNative communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another inways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying tomake it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after hisuncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, comingto perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of theplight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with aninheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as aninstant classic, There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and trulyunforgettable...

Americanized: Rebel without a Green Card Sara Saedi

At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret:she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old whenher parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sisterwanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a SocialSecurity number.

Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager. Shedesperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend.

Americanized follows Sara's progress toward getting her green card, but that's only aportion of her experiences as an Iranian-"American" teenager…

Night Elie Weisel

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographicalaccount of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation byMarion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in thelanguage and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface,Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication toensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man…

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