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<strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> Supplementary Reading List<br />
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To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has<br />
won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million<br />
copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Recently, librarians<br />
across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the<br />
century (Library Journal). Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee<br />
explores the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the<br />
1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by<br />
the stamina and quiet heroism of one mans struggle for justice, but the weight of history will<br />
only tolerate so much. Use of the "N" word.<br />
Tortilla Curtain Boyle, T.D. This isn‘t a book about Mexico. Rather, it‘s about Mexicans in California right now. It explores<br />
the issue of illegal immigration by examining the lives of four characters – two very well-off<br />
Californians, Delaney Mossbacher, a nature writer, and his real estate agent wife, Kyra, and a<br />
Mexican couple, Cándido Rincón, and his pregnant 17 year old wife, América, both illegal<br />
immigrants. The Mossbachers live in an exclusive, secure community overlooking Topanga<br />
Canyon. Guess who lives in near starvation in the bushes at the bottom of the canyon. The<br />
story begins with a chance encounter when Delaney almost runs down Cándido in his car.<br />
This triggers a chain of events that leads to an even more dramatic confrontation. The story<br />
switches back and forth between the two couples and, in the process, looks at the issue of<br />
illegal immigration from seemingly every point of view. Violence, sex, profanity.<br />
Trail of the Spanish Bit Coldsmith, Don Deftly blending elements of family saga and adventure story, this first installment in an<br />
ongoing series introduces the Elk-Dog People, a tribe of Great Plains Indians who owe their<br />
special talents in part to their chance encounter with Juan Garcia, (renamed Heads Off), a<br />
young Spanish officer whose riding mishap forces him to join the tribe for protection, and later<br />
for companionship, mutual respect and kinship. Beautifully written, with reverence for the<br />
ways of the People, this book explores the shared experiences of seemingly diverse cultures<br />
while telling a captivating story.<br />
Tuesdays With Morrie: An<br />
Old Man, A Young Man, and<br />
Life‘s Greatest Lesson<br />
Albom, Mitch A Detroit Free Press journalist and best-selling author recounts his weekly visits with a dying<br />
teacher who years before had set him straight.<br />
Turn of the Screw, The James, Henry Begun simply as a ghost story being shared around a fire on Christmas Eve, this novel<br />
―screws‖ with one‘s mind as the plot continually thickens and turns. One of literature‘s most<br />
gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant<br />
liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates<br />
what few stories in literature have been able to do—a complete feeling of dread and<br />
uncertainty. Sex, violence.<br />
Twelfth Night Shakespeare,<br />
William<br />
When twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked and separated off the coast of Illyria, each<br />
believes the other is dead. Viola disguises herself as a boy, becomes a page of Duke Orsinio,<br />
and falls in love with him. The Duke is hopelessly in love with Olivia, but she is in the process<br />
of mourning her brother's death and becomes infatuated with Viola as she/he delivers<br />
messages for the Duke. When Sebastian shows up, Olivia confuses him with the Duke's page<br />
(Olivia) and marries the astonished young man. All is cleared up eventually when Viola and<br />
Sebatian meet and recognize each other. In the midst of all of this romantic confusion,<br />
servants and family members provide comic relief with their pompous, pretentious, and<br />
sometimes inebriated behavior. This play contains sexual innuendo.<br />
Two Years Before the Mast Dana, Richard Henry On August 124, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California<br />
from his Boston home—via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana<br />
crated a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long<br />
been considered a definitive look at the seaman‘s life in the 19th century.<br />
Uncle Tom‘s Cabin Stowe, Harriet<br />
Beecher<br />
<strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> 2011-12<br />
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852,<br />
Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it<br />
a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet<br />
Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that<br />
flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic<br />
simplifications of character totally alien to the original. Thus "Uncle Tom" has become a<br />
pejorative term for a subservient black, whereas Uncle Tom in the book is a man who, under<br />
the most inhumane of circumstances, never loses his human dignity.