Teacher Recommendations

Mr. Becker

• The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
• The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho
• The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz 
• Eating Well for Optimum Health by dr Andrew Weil 
• Food Rules: an eater's manual by Michael Pollan
• Chop Wood Carry Water: How to fall in love with the process of being great  by Joshua Medcalf
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Ms. Rocchio 

• The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White 
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman 
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S Sharma

Mr. Tommaso 

• Once a Runner by John L. Parker
• Running for my Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Fields of Sudan to the Olympics by Lopez Lomong
• Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics By Jeremy Schaap
• The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

• The Sports Gene by David Epstein

Ms. Coretti

• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes and/or The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisis Coates
• Animal Farm or 1984 by George Orwell
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Ms. DaSilva

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Heart in Atlantis by Stephen King
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Mrs. Earles

All of my students know how much I love trees, and this book list certainly represents that. In each of the fiction texts below, trees and/or nature play an important role. The last text is a fascinating nonfiction text about the way that trees communicate with each other ( yes you read that correctly!). If you read any of these stop in to chat with me.

• The Overstory by Richard Powers : The book that stared it all for me.
• Greenwood by Michael Christie
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

Mr. Lajoie

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Mrs. La Vista

• In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
• Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom
• The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom
• The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher
• The Masterpiece: A novel by Fiona Davis
• The English Wife: A novel by Lauren Willig
• The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams
• American Princess: a Novel of First Daughter by Stephanie Marie Thornton
• The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• The Hamilton Affair: A novel by Elizabeth Cobbs
• Carnegie’s Maid: A novel by Marie Benedict

Mr. Harris

• Scythe by Neal Schusterman
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Far From The Tree by Robin Benway
• Zeithoun by Dave Eggers
• Winger by  Andrew Smith
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
• Columbine by  Dave Cullen
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys 
• They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera 
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• After The Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova

Ms. McMahon

• Liars Inc. by Paula Stokes
• Exo by Fonda Lee
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Mr. Morrison

• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder

Ms. Rubino

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Hillbilly Elegy  by J.D. Vance
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Mr. Sorey

• It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• The Storyteller by David Grohl
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• We Were Liars by E.Lockhart
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi 
• The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
• Orbiting Jupiter - Gary D. Schmidt 
• Deacon King Kong, by James McBride   
• Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Mr. Young

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn
• Push by Sapphire 
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Mr. Salutari

• Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Short Bus: a journey beyond normal by Jonathan Mooney 
• Change Leadership: a practical guide to transforming our schools by Tony Wagner

Ms. Whitcher

• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
• The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell 
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Raising Ryland by Hillary Whittington
• This Life I Live by Rory Feek
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Mr. Bodner

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership by Sam Walker
• Chasing the Bear: How Bear Bryant and Nick Saban Made Alabama the Greatest College Football Program of All Time by Lars Anderson

Ms. McIsaac

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
• One Italian Summer by Rebecca Searle 
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Ms. Minniti

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Amanda Knox Waiting To Be Heard by Amanda Knox
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan
• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Ms. Evans

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 
• The Guest List by Lucy Foley 
• The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn 
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy 
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo 
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Mr. Engelhardt

• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
•  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ms. Persson 

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Ms. Sayin

David Baldacci’s Amos Decker series

• Memory Man
• The Last Mile
• The Fix

Mr. Gage (Music)

• Daisy Jones and The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
• Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton
• The Storyteller, Dave Grohl
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Ms. Fiorelli (Library)

• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni
• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
• The Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Mrs. Brako

• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
• The Sports Gene by David Epstein
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• The Beauty of the Beastly by Nathalie Angier
• The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
• The Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Ms. Browne

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Great Alone Kristin Hannah
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
• Hillbilly Elegy the JD Vance
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Ms. Grissom

• Death from the Skies: the Science Behind the end of the World  by Dr. Philip Plait
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkein
• Things In Jars  by Jess Kidd
• Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• Kings of the Wild by Nicholas Eames
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mr. Russo

• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Sir Philip Pullman
• Aftermath Trilogy (Star Wars) by Chuck Wendig
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr 
• Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr 
• Dune by Frank Herbert

Mr. Glasser

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Johnson

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Mr. Pelletier

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
• Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Range by David Epstein
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Race and Reunion by David Blight
• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
• The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by Wiliam Appleman WIlliams

 Mr. Quirk

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• Escape from Camp 14  by Blaine Harden
• Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World Jack Weatherford
• Seventeen Seventy-six by David McCullough
• An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

Mr. Spears

• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Four Feathers by A.E.W Mason
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• A Room with a View by E.M. Forrester
• Silas Marner by George Elliot
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hunger  by Knut Hamsun

Mrs. Stott

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• Dopesick: the dealers, doctors and drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Ms. Carroll 

• Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Reilly
• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Ms. Greenvall

• Lincoln Highway- Amor Towles- A WONDERFUL story
• Broken Horses- Brandi Carlile (Audio HIGHLY recommended- as she narrates and sings between chapters!)

Ms. Greco (Guidance)

• Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
• Art & Fear: Observations on the perils (and rewards) of artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland

Ms. Karsanow

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Mr. Siciliano (Technology):

• Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Series)
• Kingkiller Chronicle Trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss

Mrs. Halloran (Athletics):

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Ms. Aguzzi

• ​​​​​​​The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King 
• The Girl in the Box series by Robert Crane
• Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
• Before the Broken Star (series) by Emily King
• The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard
• Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
• City of the Beasts (series) by Isabel Allende

Ms. Butcher 

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
• Love Does by Bob Goff
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Mrs. Casais

• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• The Apprentice: my life in the kitchen by Jacques Pepin
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• La Casa de los Espíritus by Isabel Allende

Ms. Gauley

• My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
• Cider House Rules John Irving
• Let’s Eat Italy François-Régis Gaudry
• Violeta Isabel Allende
• Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens