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Career & Tech Educators
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
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The Sports Gene by David Epstein
English Teacher Recommendations
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
Main Office
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
Math Teachers
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
Music, Art & Library
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
Science Teacher Recommendations
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
Social Studies Favorites
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
Student Support Staff
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
World Language Teachers
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