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Have a good summer,
and READ for the fun of it! |
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Armstrong, Karen. The
Battle for God. |
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Alvarez, Julia.* How
the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. |
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Alexie, Sherman.* Ten
Little Indians. |
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Ackerman, Diane. A
Natural History of the Senses. |
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Allende, Isabel.*
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. (trans. By Margaret Sayers Peden) |
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Aseel, Mariam
Qudrat. Torn Between Two Cultures : an Afghan-American Woman Speaks
out. |
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Bamford, Janet.
Street Wise : a Guide for Teen Investors. |
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Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter. |
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Bambara, Toni Cade.
Gorilla, My Love. |
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Berry, Wendell.* Life
is a Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition. |
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Bloom, Harold, ed.
The Best poems of the English language : from Chaucer through Frost. |
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Beston, Henry. The
Outermost House. |
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Bodanis, David. E=mc2
: a Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation. |
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Borges, Jorge Luis.
El Libro de Arena. |
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Boyd, William. Any
Human Heart. |
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Brashares,
Ann.* The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. |
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Brown. Dan.*
The DaVinci Code. (If you’ve read it, look for one of the rebuttals
and read it.) |
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Chevalier,
Tracy. The Lady and the Unicorn. |
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Chopin, Kate.* The
Awakening. |
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Cisneros,
Sandra.* The House on Mango Street. |
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Cisneros,
Sandra. La Casa en Mango Street. |
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Cole, K. C. First You Build a Cloud : and Other Reflections on
Physics as a Way of Life. |
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Colfer, Eion.*
The Wish List. |
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Corrigan,
Eireann. Splintering. |
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Cortazar,
Julio. Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. |
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Danticat, Edwidge.*
Breath, Eyes, Memory. |
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de Unamundo, Miguel.
Nada Menos que Todo un Haubre. |
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Dewdney, A. K. A
Mathematical Mystery Tour : Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the
Cosmos. |
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Diamant, Anita. The
Red Tent. |
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Du Maurier, Dame
Daphne.* Rebecca. |
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Dumas, Alexandre.*
The Three Musketeers. |
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Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. |
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Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed. |
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Ellison, Ralph.
Invisible Man. |
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Esquivel, Laura. Como
Aqua Para Chocolate. |
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Fforde, Jasper.*
Thursday Next in Something Rotten. |
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Fisher, M.F. K.*
Among Friends. |
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Freymann-Weyr,
Garret. The Kings are Already Here. |
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Furlong, Monica, ed. Women Pray : Voices Through the Ages, From
Many Faiths, Cultures, and Traditions |
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Gaiman, Neil.
American Gods. |
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García Lorca,
Federico.* Obras Completas. |
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García Márquez,
Gabriel.* Cien Años de Sole. |
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Gardner, John.
Grendel. |
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Gates, Jr., Henry
Louis. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, by Hannah Crafts. |
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Godwin, Gail. The
Finishing School. |
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Gould, Stephen Jay.*
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox : Mending the Gap
Between Science and the Humanities. |
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Greene, Betty.
Summer of my German Soldier. |
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Haddon, Mark.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time : a novel. |
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Halaby, Laila.
West of the Jordan : a novel. |
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Hartinger,
Brent. The Last Chance Texaco. |
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Hellenga, Robert. The
Sixteen Pleasures. |
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Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: the Enigma. |
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Holthe, Tess Uriza.
When the Elephants Dance : a Novel. |
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Hosseini, Khaled. The
Kite Runner. |
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Hughes, Langston.
Short Stories. |
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Hurston, Zora Neale.*
Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
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Jacobs, Jane (ed.). A
Schoolteacher in Old Alaska : The Story of Hannah Breece. |
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Jensen, Erik.
B’s and A’s in 30 Days: Strategies for Better Grades in College. |
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Johnson, Charles.
Middle Passage. |
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Kerr, M. E. Slap Your
Sides : a novel. |
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Kidd, Sue Monk. The
Secret Life of Bees. |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa.*
Interpreter of Maladies. |
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Lara, Adair. Hold me
Close, Let me Go : A Mother, A Daughter, and an Adolescence
Survived. |
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Lessing, Doris May.
The Sweetest Dream. |
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McBride, James. The
Color of Water. |
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McCall Smith,
Alexander.* The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. |
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Maguire,
Gregory. Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
West. |
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Mahy,
Margaret. Alchemy. |
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Martel, Yann.
The Life of Pi. |
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Matute, Ana
Maria. Los Niños Tontos. |
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Mitchell,
Margaret. Gone With the Wind. |
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Morrison, Toni.*
Beloved. |
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Nafisi, Azar. Reading
Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books. |
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Napoli, Donna Jo. The
Great God Pan. |
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Neruda, Pablo. Jardin
de Invierno. |
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Neruda, Pablo* (trans.
Anthony Kerrigan). Selected Poems. |
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Niven, Jennifer. Ada
Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic. |
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Nye, Naomi
Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East. |
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O'Conner, Patricia
T. Woe is I : the Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain
English. |
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Olson, Carl E. The Da
Vinci Hoax : Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code. |
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Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy,
Run : a novel. |
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Ortiz Cofer, Judith.
The meaning of Consuelo. |
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Patchett, Ann.
Bel Canto : a novel. |
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Paton, Alan.
Cry, the Beloved Country. |
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Postman, Neil.
Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show
Business. |
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Roach, Mary. Stiff :
the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. |
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Robbins, Tom. Skinny
Legs and All. |
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Roberts, Cokie.
Founding Mothers : the Women Who Raised our Nation. |
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Robinson, Marilynne.
Gilead. |
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Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter [series]. |
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Sacco, Joe.
Palestine. |
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Saint-Exupery,
Antoine de. The Little Prince. |
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Santiago, Esmeralda.
When I was Puerto Rican. |
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Schlosser, Eric. Fast
Food Nation : the Dark Side of the All-American Meal. |
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Schneider, Helga. Let
Me Go. |
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Schoemperlen, Diane.
Our Lady of the Lost and Found. |
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Scoppettone, Sandra.
The Late Great Me. |
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Sedaris, David. Me
Talk Pretty One Day. |
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Selvadurai, Shyam.
Cinnamon Gardens. |
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Shoup, Barbara.
Vermeer’s Daughter. |
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Silbert, Leslie. The
Intelligencer. |
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Sime, Ruth Lewin.
Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics. |
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Smiley, Jane. A
Thousand Acres. |
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Smith, Bob. Hamlet’s
Dresser : A Memoir. |
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Smith,
Michael. Station X : Decoding Nazi Secrets. |
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Sobel, Dava.
Longitude : The True Story of Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of his Time. |
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Steinbach, Alice.
Educating Alice : Adventures of a Curious Woman. |
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Stolz, Karen.
World of Pies : a Novel. |
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Tarbox,
Katherine. Katie.com : My Story. |
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Tan, Amy.* The
Joy Luck Club. |
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Tolstoy, Leo.*
Anna Karenina. |
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Truss, Lynne. Eats,
Shoots & Leaves : the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. |
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Vickers, Hugo. Alice : Princess Andrew of Greece. |
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Wallach, Janet.
Desert Queen. |
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Weis, Margaret.
Mistress of Dragons. |
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Werlin, Nancy. Double
Helix. |
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Willis, Connie. To
Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How we Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at
Last. |
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Wolff, Tobias. Old
School : a novel. |
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Additional Authors to
look for: |
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Joan Aiken |
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Piers Anthony |
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Jane Austen |
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Judy Blume |
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Charlotte Brontë |
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Emily Brontë |
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Orson Scott Card |
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Willa Cather |
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Lois Duncan |
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Madeline L’Engle |
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M. E. Kerr |
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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Robin McKinley |
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Katherine Paterson |
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Richard Peck |
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Sharon Kay Penman |
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Anne Rice |
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Josephine Tey |
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Cynthia Voigt |
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Jane Yolen |
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Use one of these to go
to a public library; you’ll probably find lists of recommended reads
there too! |
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http://montgomerycountymd.gov/content/libraries/ |
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http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/ |
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http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/Libraries/LibrariesMain.aspx |
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http://www.prge.lib.md.us/ |
