Teacher Recommendations

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

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. Young

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Push by Sapphire 
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

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. 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
• 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

Mrs. Bader

• 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
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Mrs. Earles

These four complement each other:

• Educated by Tara Westover
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.Vance
• Too Shattered for Mending by Peter Brown Hoffmeister
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

These two make a great compare/contrast discussion about fate:  

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

These two are really engaging works of fiction:

• Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

The Overstory by Robert Powers
This book is life changing. This book is for people that love trees. This book is for people.  Powers blends scientific writing with narration to tell the soon to be entwined stories of multiple characters. The individual stories are well written and engaging and the way he pulls characters together in various places in the book keeps the reader guessing. It has been a long time since I cried while reading a book…about trees.

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 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

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 
• 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

Ms. Sayin

David Baldacci’s Amos Decker series

• Memory Man
• The Last Mile
• The Fix

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

Mr. Gage (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 
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Ms. Fiorelli (Library)

• I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
• 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

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

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
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Mrs. Stott

• 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

Mr. Spears

• 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

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

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

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. Greco (Guidance)

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

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

Mr. Hibbard 

• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho