ALA's Best Books for Young Adults
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
2011 Kennedy 10th Grade Summer Reading List:
The Bellmore-Merrick Public Libraries have copies of all of these books, & all of the books are available for purchase in paperback editions.
New York State English Language Arts Literature Suggestions (.pdf file)
Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak! c. 1996
Fiction, Story Collection, Adult
Nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life.
National Book Award Finalist
Davies,
Adam. Goodbye Lemon. c. 2006.Fiction. Adult
Frustrated musician Jack Tennant reluctantly returns to Baltimore after fifteen years away to see his estranged father who has suffered a stroke that has left him paralyzed and unable to speak, and finds his family in much the same condition he left them--crippled by the childhood drowning death of his brother Dexter whose name has not been mentioned in the household for nearly thirty years.
Reviews from Amazon.com
DeRosnay, Tatiana – Sarah’s Key. c2007.
Historical Fiction. Adult
Sarah Strazynski, a ten year-old Jewish girl, and her family are arrested during the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris, while her younger brother is left behind in a secret cupboard. When, 60 years later, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this dark day in French history, she stumbles upon a connection between her family and the Strazynski family that compels her to learn more.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Originally published 1929.
Classic, Fiction. Adult
An American ambulance officer serving on the Austro-Italian front deserts to join an English nurse after the retreat of Caporetto.
Rees, Celia. Witch Child. c. 2009.Historical Fiction. YA
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
Reviews from Amazon.com
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain. c.2008
Fiction. Adult.
Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner.
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help. c. 2009.
Historical Fiction. Adult
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
Wilson, August. The Piano Lesson. c.2007
Drama. Adult.
In this play, part of Wilson's cycle about African-American life in the 20th century, brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano.
Pulitzer Prize 1990
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