Teacher Recommendations

English Teachers

Mr. Harris’s Picks (English): 

• 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

Mr. Sorey's Picks (English):

• It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling

Mrs. Bader's Picks (English):

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Where the Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens
• Emma by Jane Austen
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Mr. Young’s Picks (English):

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Push by Sapphire

Mrs. La Vista’s Picks (English):

• The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher
• The Masterpiece: A Novel by Fiona Davis
• The English Wife: A Novel by Lauren Willig
• The Wicked City by Beatriz Williams
• The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams
• American Princess: a Novel of First Daughter by Stephanie Marie Thornton
• The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
• 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

Science Teachers

Mrs. Brako’s Picks (Science):

• 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

Mr. Fisler’s Picks (Science):

• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Mr. Russo’s Picks (Science):

• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Sir Philip Pullman
• Aftermath Trilogy (Star Wars) by Chuck Wendig
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Social Studies Teachers

Mr. Spears’s Picks (Social Studies):

• 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

Mr. Glasser’s Picks (Social Studies):

• Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Billy by Whitley Strieber
• How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
• Stiff: The Secret Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

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Mr. Tommaso’s Pick (CTE):

• Once a Runner by John L. Parker

Mr. Hibbard’s Picks (World Language):

• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Nine Stories by JD Salinger
• All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Ms. Carroll’s Picks (Special Education):

• 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

Mr. Gage's Picks (Music)

• 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

Mr. Siciliano's Picks (Technology):

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

Mrs. Halloran’s Pick (Athletics):

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy