Secondary SBCUSD Reads - May
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Middle School Recommendations
Prairie Lotus is a multi-layered book about a girl who is determined to fit in and achieve her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend.
Joseph Bruchac tells the powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic.
High School Recommendations
THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.