Principal's Reading List
2008-2009
| September |
 UGLIES Scott Westerfeld Fantasy/Action & Adventure |
It's about a world in which everyone has an
operation when they turn sixteen, making them
supermodel beautiful. Big eyes, full lips, no
one fat or skinny. This seems like a good thing,
but it's not. Especially if you're one of the
uglies, a bunch of radical teens who've decided
they want to keep their own faces. (How
anti-social of them.)
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| October |
 Breaking Dawn Stephanie Meyer Fiction |
The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. |
| November |
 The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Fiction/Short Stories |
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried is a sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. |
| December |
 MYSTIC RIVER Dennis Lehane Thriller |
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened ... |
| January |
 THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES Shirley Jackson Short Stories/Fiction |
Collection of twenty five stories which are representative of the author's work. |
| February |
 OCTOBER SKY (ROCKET BOYS) Homer Hickam Memoir |
With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to look beyond their differences and set their sights on the stars -- and saw a future that the nation was just beginning to imagine. |
| March |
 HURT GO HAPPY Ginny Rorby Fiction |
Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left
out of conversations. Though she’s been deaf since
the age of six, Joey’s mother has never allowed her
to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips
of those around her, but often fails. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari... |
| April |
 THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN Garth Stein Fiction |
A heart-warming and inspirational tale in which
Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his
human family, how they nearly fell apart, and
what he did to bring them back together.
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| May |
THE CAMEL CLUB |
The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. |
