Thank you all for the kind words we have received over the last few years. I felt the need to reorganize and make it simpler for you all to gain access to everything needed, still by grade but linked to the different lessons (both free and subscription versions) to help make your journey a lot easier. 

Before you grab what you need, I want to remind you that each state is different in terms of regulations as in what subjects, hours and days are needed. That being said all the information below can used in any state.

In New York State, 9th, 10th, 11th, and12th graders are expected to cover English (four units), social studies (four units), which includes American history (one unit), participation in government (half a unit), economics (half a unit), Science (two units), Mathematics (two units), physical education (on a regular basis), Health education (half a unit), alcohol, drug and tobacco misuse, art and or music (one unit), physical education (two units), electives (three units), Highway and Traffic Safety, and lastly Fire Safety and Prevention. 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th are accumulative, meaning that the total units will be covered between the two years. However, each year must be done with a total of 990 hours in 180 days. Also to note, that each unit is equivalent to 108 hours.

End of the Year Goals

Reading
– Daily reading
– Log and track progress

Language Arts
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Research
– Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
– Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations,
– summarizing in own words)
– Construct a works cited page
– Apply criteria to evaluate sources
– Conduct a thorough media center search
– Short Story
– Students will comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– Speaking
– Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
– Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures.
– Use standard language and grammar.
– Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be
– conveyed.
– Prepare a formal outline
– Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
– Fully develop the main points of a speech
– Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions
– Create a works cited with multiple sources
– Take research notes
– Create and support a clear thesis
– Listening
– Demonstrate effective listening skills.
– Writing
– Write a response to literature.
– Create and defend a clear thesis.
– Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
– Use effective transitions.
– Create interesting introductions and conclusions.
– Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature and/or – personal experiences.
– Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage.
– Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure.
– Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer
– editing and final draft).
– Reading
– Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
– Explain how the structural elements (exposition, complication, climax and
– denouement) of a short story contribute to the overall effect.
– Analyze character development in a short story.
– Analyze theme in a given short story.

• –  Analyze conflict in a given short story.
• –  Identify and explain the type of irony (situational, verbal and dramatic) in a short
• –  story.
• –  Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works. Identifyand explain figures of speech in various literary works.
• –  Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work.
• –  Make predictions and ask questions while reading.
• –  Make connections to characters and situations.
• –  Public Speaking Unit
• –  Students will demonstrate mastery of public speaking fundamentals through a series of threeshort speeches.
• –  Speaking
• –  Listening
• –  Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
• –  Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, andgestures
• –  Use standard language and grammar
• –  Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
• –  Prepare a formal outline
• –  Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
• –  Fully develop the main points of a speech
• –  Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions
• –  Create a works cited with multiple sources
• –  Take research notes
• –  Create and support a clear thesis
• –  Clearly and effectively speak to persuade an audience on a specific topic.
• –  Demonstrate effective listening skills.
• –  Make eye contact with the speaker
• –  Use non-verbal signals to show understanding
• –  Show understanding in a variety of ways (following directions, answering
• –  questions, etc.) • Reading
• –  Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate non-fiction.
• –  Analyze the main idea in a non-fiction work
• –  Identify author’s level of expertise and/or bias in a non-fiction work Draw their ownconclusions from a work of non-fiction
• –  Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
• –  Research
• –  Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes. Maximizenote-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct
• –  quotations, summarizing in own words) Construct a works cited page
• –  Create and defend a clear thesis
• –  Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
• –  Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria toevaluate sources
• –  Conduct a thorough media center search
• –  Business Unit / Mock Interview Fair
• –  Students will create an application, cover letter, resume, and thank you letter and participate

in a mock interview.

– Optional Novel

– Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying a novel of the teacher’s choosing.

• –  Listening
• –  Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Writing

Write a response to literature.
Create and defend a clear thesis.
Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
Use effective transitions
Create interesting introductions and conclusions
Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature

or personal experience
Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
Clearly and effectively speak to persuade an audience on a specific topic.

Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
Use standard language and grammar
Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Make eye contact with the speaker
Use non-verbal signals to show understanding
Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
Apply reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in order to explore career pathways. Complete a job application with references
Create a clear, concise cover letter that is nearly error free Generate a resume using proper format
Complete formal interview process with school business partner
Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.

Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer editing and final draft)

Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar. • Reading
Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate novels.
Explain how the structural elements of a novel contribute to the overall effect. Analyze

character development in a novel
Analyze theme in a novel
Analyze conflict in a novel
Identify and explain the type of irony in a novel
Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify

and explain figures of speech in various literary works Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
Make predictions and ask questions while reading Make connections to characters and situations

Persuasive Writing / Research
Students will demonstrate writing and research skills while creating a persuasive essay. Listening

Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Writing

Write a persuasive essay.
Create and defend a clear thesis
Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
Identify audience and purpose.
Express and develop clear opinions.
Use effective transitions
Create engaging introductions and conclusions
Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples, statistics,

anecdotal records, and/or personal experience

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Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,

peer editing and final draft)
Include countering statements in their arguments
Utilize standard grammar and usage in writing and revising:
Use correct punctuation in sentences with embedded parts (appositives, adjective clauses

and participial phrases, and interrupters)
Correctly punctuate adverb clauses and participial phrases at the beginning of a sentence Identify and correct run on sentences and sentence fragments
Identify and correct subject-verb agreement
Identify and correct errors in pronoun-antecedent usage and pronoun cases
Correctly punctuate essential and non-essential clauses and phrases
Use proper and consistent tense in writing
Limit the use of passive verbs in favor of strong action verbs
Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar
Use correct punctuation in sentences with embedded parts (appositives, restrictive

and non-restrictive, clauses and phrases, and interruptions) Use all parts of speech correctly
Recognize and use a variety of sentence structures
Use correct capitalization and spelling

Reading

Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate non-fiction

Research

Analyze the main idea in a non-fiction work
Identify author’s level of expertise and/or bias in a non-fiction work Draw his or her own conclusions from a work of non-fiction
Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
Utilize correct MLA format for a research paper including parenthetical documentation Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations, summarizing in own words)
Construct a works cited page
Create and defend a clear thesis
Analyze and organize information to support a thesis
Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources
Conduct a thorough media center search
Nonfiction/Thematic Short Story Unit
Students will comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
• Listening
Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Writing

Write a response to literature.
Create and defend a clear thesis.
Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
Use effective transitions.
Create interesting introductions and conclusions.
Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
and/or personal experiences.
Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage. Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure.
Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,
peer editing and final draft). • Reading

• –  Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate short stories.
• –  Explain how the structural elements (exposition, complication, climax and
• –  denouement) of a short story contribute to the overall effect.
• –  Analyze character development in a short story.
• –  Analyze theme in a given short story.
• –  Analyze conflict in a given short story.
• –  Identify and explain the type of irony (situational, verbal and dramatic) in a short
• –  story.
• –  Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works. Identifyand explain figures of speech in various literary works.
• –  Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work.
• –  Make predictions and ask questions while reading.
• –  Make connections to characters and situations.
• –  Honors: Of Mice and Men
• –  Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills whilestudying Of Mice and Men.
• –  Research
• –  Locate, consult, and cite information from reliable sources about a relevant mini-
• –  topic (Possible topics: John Steinbeck, Great Depression, migrant workers in
• –  the 1930s, mental health discrimination in the 1930s, gender roles, geographical location,American Dream).
• –  Prepare a Works Cited page using MLA format • Speaking
• –  Speak with clarity and purpose during class and small group discussions.
• –  Speak with appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact,
• –  posture, and gestures.
• –  Use standard language and grammar.
• –  Writing
• –  Use the six traits of writing (content, organization, conventions, voice, sentence fluency andword choice).
• –  Create a thesis statement to guide and frame writing.
• –  Use conventions of standard written English.
• –  Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples.
• –  Explore ideas and personal reactions to the novel through informal writing (e.g.,
• –  practice writings, journaling). • Listening
• –  Use listening skills in practical settings.
• –  Adapt listening skills for specific purposes. • Reading
• –  Read non-fiction to complete research.
• –  Define and learn critical vocabulary prior to reading.
• –  Use background knowledge from class research topics to enhance understanding
• –  of the novel’s historical and cultural contexts.
• –  Read for literal, interpretive, and evaluative comprehension.
• –  Demonstrate the ability to analyze elements of fiction through identifying and
• –  applying knowledge of theme, characterization, and setting.
• –  Of Mice and Men
• –  Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills whilestudying Of Mice and Men.
• –  Speaking
• –  Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
• –  Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, andgestures
• –  Use standard language and grammar
• –  Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed
• –  Listening

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Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Writing

Write a response to literature.
Create and defend a clear thesis.
Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
Use effective transitions
Create interesting introductions and conclusions
Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
or personal experience
Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage

Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision, peer editing and final draft)
Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
Reading

Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate novels.
Explain how the structural elements of a novel contribute to the overall effect. Analyze character development in a novel

Analyze theme in a novel
Analyze conflict in a novel
Identify and explain the type of irony in a novel
Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify

and explain figures of speech in various literary works Analyze the author’s purpose in a literary work
Make predictions and ask questions while reading Make connections to characters and situations Research

Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes.
Utilize correct MLA format for a research paper including parenthetical documentation Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct quotations, summarizing in own words)
Construct a works cited page Create and defend a clear thesis

Analyze and organize information to support a thesis

Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources

Conduct a thorough media center search

Antigone / Drama

Students will demonstrate speaking, listening, writing, reading, and research skills while studying Antigone.
Speaking

Clearly and effectively speak to inform an audience on a specific topic.
Speak using appropriate expression, smoothness, pace, volume, eye contact, posture, and gestures
Use standard language and grammar
Speak with appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to be conveyed Prepare a formal outline
Create an interesting introduction and conclusion
Fully develop the main points of a speech
Organize the body of a speech using effective transitions Create a works cited with multiple sources
Take research notes
Create and support a clear thesis
Listening

Demonstrate effective listening skills.
Write a response to literature. Create and defend a clear thesis.
Edit their writing using the six trait writing rubric.
Use effective transitions
Create interesting introductions and conclusions
Develop ideas and content with specific details and examples from the literature
or personal experience
Use editing skills to adhere to standard conventions of grammar and usage Use clauses and phrases to vary sentence structure
Identify and apply the steps in the writing process (plan, rough draft, revision,
peer editing and final draft)
Learn to recognize and use standard English grammar.
Comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate drama.
Explain how the structural elements of tragedy (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe) contribute to the overall effect.
Analyze character development in tragedy Analyze theme in a play
Analyze conflict in a play
Identify and explain the type of irony in a play

Compare and contrast characters, themes, and plots from various literary works Identify and explain figures of speech(simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
personification) in various literary works

Analyze the author’s purpose in a play.
Make predictions and ask questions while reading Make connections to characters and situations

Research

Access and use information from a variety of resources for different purposes. Maximize note-taking strategies to avoid plagiarism (paraphrasing, direct
quotations, summarizing in own words)

Construct a works cited page
Create and defend a clear thesis
Analyze and organize information to support a thesis

Draw coherent connections and conclusions supported by evidence. Apply criteria to evaluate sources

Math
– Algebra

Social Studies – World History – Geography

Science
– Chemistry

Visual/Performance
– Dance, Music, Arts
– Drawing and Coloring – Connect the dots
– Hands on Crafts

PE

English

Reading continues to be important as we get older. While ELA is mostly developing Essay writing through the different ways, this list will help make it interesting. A lot also touches on History you will cover in World History. I’ve added a printable to help if you go to the library or just keep on the side.

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Nonfiction

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews

In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world’s most famous nanny.

Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents’ painful divorce; her mother’s turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie’s professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.

Home is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in Camelotwith Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond.

Julie Andrews’ career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances, to her roles in such iconic films as The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, 10, and The Princess Diaries, to her award-winning television appearances, multiple album releases, concert tours, international humanitarian work, best-selling children’s books, and championship of literacy, Julie’s influence spans generations. Today, she lives with her husband of thirty-eight years, the acclaimed writer/director Blake Edwards; they have five children and seven grandchildren.

Featuring over fifty personal photos, many never before seen, this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews’ audiences have been waiting for.

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
 
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition by Zlata Filipovic

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.

The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon

If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say?

That the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant that you won’t remember his name until he shows up at your book signing?

In this anthology, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgendered people. Through stories, in pictures, with bracing honesty, these are words of love and understanding, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by Jhon Elder Robison

Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself—and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It’s a strange, sly, indelible account—sometimes alien yet always deeply human.

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Marjane Satrapi

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.

Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts’s acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

“I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.”

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world.

When I Was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti

At a time when Israel is in the news every day and politics in the Middle East are as complex as ever before, this story of one girl’s experience in the Israeli national army is both topical and fascinating. Valerie begins her story as she finishes her exams, breaks up with her boyfriend, and leaves for service with the Israeli army. Nothing has prepared her for the strict routines, grueling marches, poor food, lack of sleep and privacy, or crushing of initiative that she now faces. But this harsh life has excitement, too, such as working in a spy center near Jerusalem and listening in on Jordanian pilots. Offering a glimpse into the life of a typical Israeli teen, even as it lays bare the relentless nature of war, Valerie’s story is one young readers will have a hard time forgetting.

Night by Ellie Weisel

Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The book’s nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood”, before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  

Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle is a book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839. 

The Beagle sailed from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy. While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five. Darwin spent most of this time exploring on land. The book is a vivid travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin’s keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were exploring and charting the whole world. 

Darwin’s notes made during the voyage include comments hinting at his changing views on the fixity of species. On his return, he wrote the book based on these notes, at a time when he was first developing his theories of evolution through common descent and natural selection. The book includes some suggestions of his ideas.

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates.

Deborah Heiligman’s new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers.

Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure the white community as to the usefulness of educating black people. This book was first released as a serialized work in 1900 through The Outlook, a Christian newspaper of New York. This work was serialized because this meant that during the writing process, Washington was able to hear critiques and requests from his audience and could more easily adapt his paper to his diverse audience.

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau’s essay with being “the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America.”

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply “Moll Flanders”) is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.
Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe’s Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll, and the novel’s full title gives some insight into this and the outline of the plot:
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu’d Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv’d Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.

I Who Did Not Die by Zahed Haftlang

This is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching, essential, and astonishing. It’s a war story. A love story. A page-turner of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly, it is a story that must be told, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless, barbaric wars.

Little has been written of the Iran-Iraq war, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century, one fought with chemical weapons, ballistic missiles, and cadres of child soldiers.

The numbers involved are staggering:
—All told, it claimed 700,000 lives—200,000 Iraqis, and 500,000 Iranians.
—Young men of military service age—eighteen and above in Iraq, fifteen and above in Iran—died in the greatest numbers.
—80,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
—The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war.

Rarely does this kind of reportage succeed so power- fully as literature. More rarely still does such searingly brilliant literature—fit to stand beside Remarque, Hemingway, and O’Brien—emerge from behind “enemy” lines.

But Zahed, a child, and Najah, a young restaurateur, are rare men—not just survivors, but masterful, wondrously gifted storytellers. Written with award-winning journalist Meredith May, this is literature of a very high order, set down with passion, urgency, and consummate skill. This story is an affirmation that, in the end, it is our humanity that transcends politics and borders and saves us all.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist masterpiece. The titular Uncle Tom is the slave of Mr. Shelby, the proprietor of a certain estate in Kentucky, which has fallen into disorder in consequence of the speculative habits of its owner, who, at the opening of the tale, is forced to part not only with Uncle Tom, but with a young quadroom woman named Eliza, the servant of Mrs. Shelby, and wife of George Harris, a slave upon a neighboring estate. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and her book is a vehement and unrestrained argument in favor of her creed.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . .  if only he can come out of the war alive.

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Millions of words have poured forth about man’s trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves – in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman

The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers’ lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend―Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the extraordinary love of the Van Gogh brothers. 

March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power by Ann Bausum 

James Meredith’s 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man’s peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South’s most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. It brought together leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael, who formed an unlikely alliance that resulted in the Black Power movement, which ushered in a new era in the fight for equality.
 
The retelling of Meredith’s story opens on the day of his assassination attempt and goes back in time to recount the moments leading up to that event and its aftermath. Readers learn about the powerful figures and emerging leaders who joined the over 200-mile walk that became known as the “March Against Fear.” 
 
Thoughtfully presented by award-winning author Ann Bausum, this book helps readers understand the complex issues of fear, injustice, and the challenges of change. It is a history lesson that’s as important and relevant today as it was 50 years ago.

How Dare the Sunrise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta

This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism.

Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably, the rebel didn’t pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped.

Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York.

In this memoir, Sandra tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, of her hope for the future, and how she found a way to give voice to her people.

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui

Nujood Ali’s childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband’s hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood’s courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages. 

Hers is an unforgettable story of tragedy, triumph, and courage.

Poetry and Plays

The Poetry of Robert Frost: Collected Poems by Robert Frost

A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers

No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From “The Road Not Taken” to “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him “the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,” and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.

Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost’s most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.

The only comprehensive volume of Frost’s verse available, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, this collection has been the standard Frost compendium since its first publication in 1969.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago’s South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. 

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesmanhas been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.

And I still Rise by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
 
Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

In America’s flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it’s worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life….

In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War.

White Cat (The Curse Workers) by Holly Black

Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn’t fit in at home or at school, so he’s used to feeling like an outsider. He’s also used to feeling guilty—he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.

But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas—and a plan to con the conmen.

Parable of the Talents (Earthseed) by Octavia E. Butler

In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to “make America great again.” In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren’s subversive colony–a minority religious faction led by a young black woman–becomes a target for President Jarret’s reign of terror and oppression.

Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future.

Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.

When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. 

Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win.

Magic’s Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey

Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wasn’t no part in such things. Nor does he seek a warrior’s path, wishing instead to become a Bard. 
 
Yet such talent as his, if left untrained, may prove a menace not only to Vanyel but to others as well. So he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil, one of the fame Herald-Mages of Valdemar.
 
But, strong-willed and self-centered, Vanyel is a challenge which even Savil cannot master alone. For soon he will become the focus of frightening forces, lending his raw magic to a spell that unleashes terrifying wyr-hunters on the land.
 
And by the time Savil seeks the assistance of a Shin’a’in Adept, Vanyel’s wild talent may have already grown beyond anyone’s ability to contain, placing Vanyel, Savil, and Valdemar itself in desperate peril.

The Left Hand of Darkness “Signed Edition” by Ursula K. Le Guin

Exotic adventure on the planet Winter, whose people are completely human except for one small variation: they are all of the same sex.

The world and its unusual society are seen through the eyes of Earth’s first envoy, caught up in subtle intrigues among the various nations of Winter, battling across immense ice-fields in a desperate bid for survival.

Proxy by Alex London

Syd’s life is not his own. As a proxy he must to pay for someone else’s crimes. When his patron Knox crashes a car and kills someone, Syd is branded and sentenced to death. The boys realize the only way to beat the system is to save each other so they flee. The ensuing cross-country chase will uncover a secret society of rebels, test the boys’ resolve, and shine a blinding light onto a world of those who owe and those who pay.
This fast-paced thrill ride of a novel is full of breakneck action, shocking twists and heart-hammering suspense that will have readers gasping until the very last page.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder is 16 years old and works as a mechanic. Her past is a mystery. You would think her present could not be worse but her stepmother is constantly denigrating her. Everything changes when she meets Prince Kai. She finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic war and an impossible love. She doesn’t know whether to choose freedom or victimization. After all, she is special. She’s the only hope…just like in fairy tales…

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. 

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

The Sparrow: A Novel (The Sparrow Series) by Mary Doria Russell

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Some race to win. Others race to survive.

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Some riders live.
Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition – the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience.

Leviathan (The Leviathan Trilogy) by Scott Westerfeld

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathanis a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

In this striking futuristic rendition of an alternate past where machines are pitted against genetically modified beasts, Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides in the First World War. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, and together they embark on an around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.

Rootless by Chris Howard

17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using salvaged scrap metal, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan’s never seen a real tree, his missing father used to tell him stories about the way they grew in the old world . . . before they were destroyed by the plagues of locusts that now feed on human flesh.
When Banyan meets a mysterious woman with a strange tattoo that offers a clue to the whereabouts of the last living trees, he sets off across a wasteland full of desert pirates, underground poachers and the agents of a sinister corporation that controls the last remaining source of food. But Banyan isn’t the only one looking for the trees, and he’s running out of time. Unsure of whom to trust, he’s forced to make an uneasy alliance with Alpha, an alluring, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. As they race towards a promised land that might only be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.

Fiction

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will’s world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus–a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest–and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatenning to overtake and consume our world before it is too late. 

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

“Speak up for yourself–we want to know what you have to say.” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

My Antonia by Willa Cather

My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book’s narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he travels to live with his grandparents after his parents have died. Jim develops strong feelings for Ántonia, something between a crush and a filial bond, and we view Ántonia’s life, including its struggles and triumphs, through his eyes.

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Now in paperback, the acclaimed Printz Honor Book: Sensitive, sharp, captivating!

A girl: Gemma, 16, at the airport, on her way to a family vacation. 

A guy: Ty, rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar, eyes blue as ice.

She steps away. For just a second. He pays for her drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what’s happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. To sand and heat. To emptiness and isolation. To nowhere. And expects her to love him.

Written as a letter from a victim to her captor, STOLEN is Gemma’s desperate story of survival; of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare–or die trying to fight it.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow’s nest, being the ship’s eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there’d been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he realizes that the man’s ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. 

In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? 

A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

An “A” for “adultery” marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby’s father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester’s partner in adultery and force him to share her disgrace.
Masterful in its symbolism and compelling in its character studies, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale of punishment and reconciliation examines the concepts of sin, guilt, and pride. The Scarlet Letter was published to immediate acclaim in 1850. Its timeless exploration of moral and spiritual issues, along with its philosophical and psychological insights, keep it ever relevant for students of American literature and lovers of fiction.

The Adventure of Augie March by Saul Bellow

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A “born recruit,” Augie makes himself available for a series of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. His own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters—plungers, schemers, risk-takers, and “hole-and corner” operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or the would-be siren Thea, who travels with an eagle trained to hunt small creatures. This Penguin Classics edition, with an introduction by celebrated writer and critic Christopher Hitchens, makes a literary masterpiece available to a new generation of readers.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Hunchback off Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer — all are captivated by a gypsy girl’s beauty and charm. Two of them will betray her, but the others will remain loyal, even in the shadow of the gallows. These outlaws find sanctuary within the walls of medieval Paris’ greatest monument, the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame.
“What a beautiful thing Notre-Dame is!” declared Gustave Flaubert of Victor Hugo’s 1837 novel. Originally published as Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris), it was conceived as a story of the cathedral itself, which functioned as the passionate heart of fifteenth-century city life. But Hugo’s human drama rivals the Gothic masterpiece for dominance. Drawn with humor and compassion, his characters endure, both in literary history and in readers’ imaginations: Frollo, the sinister archdeacon; Quasimodo, the hideous hunchback; and the enchanting outcast, Esmeralda.

The Red Badge of Courage by Wendell Minor

A unique combination of performance and commentary. Topics include body language and camera angles; rehearsal vs. performance; set design, costume and make-up; and historical context. AVAILABLE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A renewed interest in “Moby-Dick” in the early 20th century would help to establish it as an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance, firmly placing it amongst the greatest of all American novels. Based on the real life events depicted in the “Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex” and the legend of “Mocha Dick”, an albino sperm whale whose killing is described in the May 1839 issue of “The Knickerbocker” magazine, it is the story of a wandering sailor by the name of Ishmael and his voyage aboard the whaling ship the “Pequod.” Commanded by the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, a man who is obsessed with revenge against a white whale of enormous size and ferocity, the “Pequod” and its crew are tasked with the singular goal of the capture and killing of the whale, whatever the cost. “Moby-Dick” is a novel rich with symbolism, full of complex themes, whose composition defies convention. A commercial and critical failure during the author’s lifetime, this classic whaling adventure would ultimately secure the literary legacy of Herman Melville. This edition includes an introduction by William S. Ament, a biographical afterword, and is illustrated by Mead Schaeffer.

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge.

Based on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. It includes an author’s note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. 

When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. 

Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn’s never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. 

This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And just as the country is about to be liberated, Arn is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier.

I’ll give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson

At first, Jude and her twin brother are NoahandJude; inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. 

Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways . . . but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. 

The early years are Noah’s to tell; the later years are Jude’s. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they’ll have a chance to remake their world. 

This radiant, award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once. 

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace’s drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.

Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly’s astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.

Mister Death’s Blue- Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn

Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham’s junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties—friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is—are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddy’s guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent—the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. 

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work’s fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called “Más a Tierra” (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail’s Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe’s novel may have been Robert Knox’s account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in “An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon,” Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer’s most celebrated paintings.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

First published in “McClure’s Magazine” between December of 1901 and October of 1901, “Kim” is the story of Kim (Kimball) O’Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. Set against the backdrop of “The Great Game” a political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in central Asia, the novel traces the life of the title character from begging and errand running on the streets of Lahore to his schooling at a top English school in Lucknow, where he is trained in espionage, and ultimately to a government appointment where he himself gets to play in “The Great Game.” Set between the second and third Afghan War, “Kim” presents a vivid portrait of 19th century India. Considered by many as Kipling’s masterpiece, “Kim” is a classic novel of espionage and adventure which helped bring popular attention to the political and diplomatic confrontation between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in Central and Southern Asia at the end of the 19th century. This edition includes an introduction by A. L. Rowse and a biographical afterword.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackennzi Lee

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee—Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s.

Henry “Monty” Montague doesn’t care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for pleasure and vice are in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family’s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy.

So Monty vows to make this yearlong escapade one last hedonistic hurrah and flirt with Percy from Paris to Rome. But when one of Monty’s reckless decisions turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt, it calls into question everything he knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores.

Witty, dazzling, and intriguing at every turn, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is an irresistible romp that explores the undeniably fine lines between friendship and love.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Last words. 

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. 

Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. 

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. 

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

Being the middle child has its ups and downs.

But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including—

Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs.

And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him.

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Life was good 
before I 
met 
the monster.

After, 
life 
was great, 
At 
least 

for a little while. 

Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. 

Then, Kristina meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul—her life.

Shoe Dog: Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of 2016 and called it “an amazing tale, a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. It’s a messy, perilous, and chaotic journey, riddled with mistakes, endless struggles, and sacrifice. Phil Knight opens up in ways few CEOs are willing to do.”

Fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In this age of start-ups, Knight’s Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world.

But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. In Shoe Dog, he tells his story at last. At twenty-four, Knight decides that rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, new, dynamic, different. He details the many risks he encountered, the crushing setbacks, the ruthless competitors and hostile bankers—as well as his many thrilling triumphs. Above all, he recalls the relationships that formed the heart and soul of Nike, with his former track coach, the irascible and charismatic Bill Bowerman, and with his first employees, a ragtag group of misfits and savants who quickly became a band of swoosh-crazed brothers.

Together, harnessing the electrifying power of a bold vision and a shared belief in the transformative power of sports, they created a brand—and a culture—that changed everything.

Warcross by Marie Lu

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty-hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. To make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.

Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

In this sci-fi thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu conjures an immersive, exhilarating world where choosing who to trust may be the biggest gamble of all.

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.

Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.

The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true? 

Jackaby by William Ritter

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary–including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain the foul deeds are the work of the kind of creature whose very existence the local authorities–with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane–seem adamant to deny.

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she’s isn’t sure if she’ll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (as well as her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.

But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new…the same girl her brother is in love with. When Lionel’s disorder spirals out of control, Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help her brother before he hurts himself–or worse.

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric’s armed and armored fleet. 

But when Caledonia’s best friend and second-in-command barely survives an attack thanks to help from a Bullet looking to defect, Caledonia finds herself questioning whether to let him join their crew. Is this boy the key to taking down Aric Athair once and for all…or will he threaten everything the women of the Mors Navis have worked for? 

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.

Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth have grown up in enemy countries locked in a long-standing fight for dominance over their shared planet. When Akos and his brother are kidnapped by the ruling Noavek family, Akos is forced to serve Cyra, the sister of a dictator who governs with violence and fear. Cyra is known for her deadly power of transferring extraordinary pain unto others with simple touch, and her tyrant brother uses her as a weapon against those who challenge him. But as Akos fights for his own survival, he recognizes that Cyra is also fighting for hers, and that her true gift—resilience—might be what saves them both.

When Akos and Cyra are caught in the middle of a raging rebellion, everything they’ve been led to believe about their world and themselves must be called into question. But fighting for what’s right might mean betraying their countries, their families, and each other.

When the time comes, will they choose loyalty or love?

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. 

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.
 
But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. 
 
Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
 
But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend, Lorena, and her first love (first everything), Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu

Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. 

With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
 
So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki 

Montgomery Sole is a square peg in a small town, forced to go to a school full of jocks and girls who don’t even know what irony is. It would all be impossible if it weren’t for her best friends, Thomas and Naoki. The three are also the only members of Jefferson High’s Mystery Club, dedicated to exploring the weird and unexplained, from ESP and astrology to super powers and mysterious objects.

Then there’s the Eye of Know, the possibly powerful crystal amulet Monty bought online. Will it help her predict the future or fight back against the ignorant jerks who make fun of Thomas for being gay or Monty for having two moms? Maybe the Eye is here just in time, because the newest resident of their small town is scarier than mothmen, poltergeists, or, you know, gym.

Thoughtful, funny, and painfully honest, Montgomery Sole is someone you’ll want to laugh and cry with over a big cup of frozen yogurt with extra toppings.

Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider

Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium called Latham House, he discovers an insular world with paradoxical rules, med sensors, and an eccentric yet utterly compelling confidante named Sadie—and life as Lane knows it will never be the same.

Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Angie is broken—by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Having failed to kill herself—in front of a gym full of kids—Angie’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, a girl who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility and mean girls to rival a horror classic, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don’t know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal adversaries Love and Death, here brilliantly reimagined as two extremely sympathetic and fascinating characters. Can their hearts and their wills overcome not only their earthly circumstances, but forces that have battled throughout history? In the rainy Seattle of the 1920’s, romance blooms among the jazz clubs, the mansions of the wealthy, and the shanty towns of the poor. But what is more powerful: love? Or death?

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. 

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

As the tomboy daughter of the town’s preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She’d rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee.

But when Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she’s in love with Woods, Billie’s filled with a nagging sadness as she realizes that she is also in love with Woods…and maybe with Janie Lee, too.

Always considered “one of the guys,” Billie doesn’t want anyone slapping a label on her sexuality before she can understand it herself. So she keeps her conflicting feelings to herself, for fear of ruining the group dynamic.

Except it’s not just about keeping the peace, it’s about understanding love on her terms—this thing that has always been defined as a boy and a girl falling in love and living happily ever after. For Billie—a box-defying dynamo—it’s not that simple. 

Readers will be drawn to Billie as she comes to terms with the gray areas of love, gender, and friendship, in this John Hughes-esque exploration of sexual fluidity.

Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

There are three kinds of people in my world:

1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.

2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.

Also, there’s Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. Same planet, different worlds.

But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?

3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.

Like the monster at my mosque.

People think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.

Except me.

Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis by Jeannine Atkins

A sculptor of historical figures starts with givens but creates her own vision. Edmonia Lewis was just such a sculptor, but she never spoke or wrote much about her past, and the stories that have come down through time are often vague or contradictory. Some facts are known: Edmonia was the daughter of an Ojibwe woman and an African-Haitian man. She had the rare opportunity to study art at Oberlin, one of the first schools to admit women and people of color, but lost her place after being accused of poisoning and theft, despite being acquitted of both. She moved to Boston and eventually Italy, where she became a successful sculptor.

But the historical record is very thin. The open questions about Edmonia’s life seem ideally suited to verse, a form that is comfortable with mysteries. Inspired by both the facts and the gaps in history, author Jeannine Atkins imagines her way into a vision of what might have been.

The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr

Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that was removed from Flora’s brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend’s boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this one memory breaks through Flora’s fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake is responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So, when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world—in Svalbard, Norway—Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step toward reclaiming her life.
 
But will following Drake be the key to unlocking Flora’s memory? Or will the journey reveal that nothing is quite as it seems?
 
Already a bestselling debut in the UK, this unforgettable novel is Memento meets We Were Liars and will have you racing through the pages to unravel the truth.

Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

Imogen lives at the Playa Grande Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She spends her days working out in the hotel gym and telling other guests how she was forced out of Stanford.

But Imogen isn’t really Imogen. She’s Jule. And she’s on the run from something. Or someone. Which means . . . where is the real Imogen?

Rewind: Jule and Imogen are the closest of friends. Obsessed with each other, even. Imogen is an orphan, an heiress; she and Jule spend a summer together in a house on Martha’s Vineyard, sharing secrets they’d never reveal to another soul.

But that was months ago. Where is Immie now? And why is Jule using her name?

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away.

Matt’s hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldn’t be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of people’s heads. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. 

So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe?

Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq’s life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. No problem. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Nick frequents New York’s indie rock scene nursing a broken heart. Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world. They have nothing in common except for their taste in music, until a chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band’s secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change both their lives.

Co-written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, co-author of WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON with John Green (THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story that reminds you how you can never be sure where the night will take you…

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Kristin Cashore’s bestselling, award-winning fantasy Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, a smart, beautiful teenager who lives in a world where selected people are given a Grace, a special talent that can be anything from dancing to swimming. Katsa’s is killing. As the king’s niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his thug. Along the way, Katsa must learn to decipher the true nature of her Grace… and how to put it to good use. A thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure (and steamy romance!) that will resonate deeply with adolescents trying to find their way in the world.

Winger by Andrew Smith

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.

Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications with the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.

Filled with hand-drawn infographics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

In Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life―and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Like Water by Rebecca Podos

In Savannah Espinoza’s small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they’re trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck—but that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him.

Now she doesn’t have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another.

That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a “nice girl.” She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend.

But caring about another person threatens the walls Vanni has carefully constructed to protect herself and brings up the big questions she’s hidden from for so long.

Putting Makeup on a Fat Boy by Bill Wright

Carlos Duarte knows that he’s fabulous. He’s got a better sense of style than half the fashionistas in New York City, and he can definitely apply makeup like nobody’s business. He may only be in high school, but when he lands the job of his dreams—makeup artist at the FeatureFace counter in Macy’s—he’s sure that he’s finally on his way to great things.
     But the makeup artist world is competitive and cutthroat, and for Carlos to reach his dreams, he’ll have to believe in himself more than ever.

Storm wake by Lucy Christopher

Moss has grown up on the strangest and most magical of islands. Her father has a plan to control the tempestuous weather that wracks the shores. But the island seems to have a plan of its own once Callan — a wild boy her age — appears on its beaches. Her complex feelings for Callan shift with every tide, while her love for the island, and her father, are thrown into doubt…

And when one fateful day, a young man from the outside world washes up on the beach, speaking of the Old World, nothing will ever be the same. 

A dark reflection of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Storm-wake is one girl’s voyage of discovery — a mesmerizing tale of magic, faith, and love.

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and illustrated by Maira Kalman 

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.
 
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America . . . into the heart of what matters most.

From acclaimed author Libba Bray comes a dark comedic journey that poses the questions: Why are we here? What is real? What makes microwave popcorn so good? Why must we die? And how do we really learn to live? 

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean—two-time Carnegie Medalist for Where the World Endsand Pack of Lies—takes readers on a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness with this lyrical, riveting, and imaginative young adult novel. 

Symone “Sym” Wates is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears. 

But Sym’s uncle Victor is even more obsessed—and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:

Debate Club.
Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Landau-Banks. 

No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society.
Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew’s lying to her.
And when there are so many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:

Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.

The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye

Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Red Queen, The Crown’s Game is a thrilling and atmospheric historical fantasy set in Imperial Russia about two teenagers who must compete for the right to become the Imperial Enchanter—or die in the process—from debut author Evelyn Skye.

Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are enchanters—the only two in Russia—and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side.

And so he initiates the Crown’s Game, an ancient duel of magical skill—the greatest test an enchanter will ever know.  The victor becomes the Imperial Enchanter and the tsar’s most respected adviser. The defeated is sentenced to death.

Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for the chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter—even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has?

For Nikolai, an orphan, the Crown’s Game is the chance of a lifetime. But his deadly opponent is a force to be reckoned with—beautiful, whip smart, imaginative—and he can’t stop thinking about her.

And when Pasha, Nikolai’s best friend and heir to the throne, also starts to fall for the mysterious enchantress, Nikolai must defeat the girl they both love . . . or be killed himself.

As long-buried secrets emerge, threatening the future of the empire, it becomes dangerously clear . . . the Crown’s Game is not one to lose.

Language Arts

Reading strategies

Main idea
Determine the main idea of a passage

Audience, purpose, and tone

Which text is most formal?
Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Identify audience and purpose
Compare passages for tone

Literary devices

Identify the narrative point of view
Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Recall the source of an allusion
Interpret figures of speech
Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Classify figures of speech: review

Analyzing literature

Analyze short stories Identify elements of poetry

Analyzing informational texts

Analyze the development of informational passages Trace an argument: set
Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts

Writing strategies

 

Organizing writing

Order topics from broadest to narrowest Organize information by main idea

Topic sentences and thesis statements

Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Identify thesis statements

Developing and supporting arguments

Distinguish facts from opinions
Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Identify supporting evidence in a text
Evaluate counterclaims
Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Classify logical fallacies

Persuasive strategies

Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing

Creative techniques Use personification

Writing clearly and concisely

Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons Identify sentences with parallel structure
Use parallel structure
Remove redundant words or phrases

Active and passive voice

Identify active and passive voice Rewrite the sentence in active voice

Editing and revising

Use the correct frequently confused word
Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
Correct errors with signs
Correct errors in everyday use
Suggest appropriate revisions

Research skills (MLA)

Understand a Works Cited entry Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry Use in-text citations
Identify plagiarism

Vocabulary

Prefixes and suffixes

Word pattern analogies Word pattern sentences Words with pre-
Words with re-

Words with sub-
Words with mis-
Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- Words with -ful
Words with -less
Words with -able and -ible

Greek and Latin roots

Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Homophones Use the correct homophone

Identify and correct errors with homophones

Foreign words and expressions

Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Use the correct foreign expression

Word usage and nuance

Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Use words accurately and precisely
Replace words using a thesaurus
Explore words with new or contested usages

Analogies Analogies

Context clues

Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Reference skills

Use dictionary entries
Use dictionary definitions
Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

Sentences, fragments, and run-ons

Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Identify sentence fragments
Identify run-on sentences
Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

Phrases and clauses

Is it a phrase or a clause?
Identify prepositional phrases
Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Identify dependent and independent clauses
Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? Combine sentences using relative clauses

Nouns

Form and use plurals: review
Form and use plurals of compound nouns

Pronouns

Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns Subject and object pronouns review
Pronouns after “than” and “as”
Identify and correct pronoun errors with “who”

Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Identify vague pronoun references
Identify all of the possible antecedents
Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

Verb types

Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Identify participles and what they modify
Identify gerunds and their functions
Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

Subject-verb agreement

Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

Verb tense

Form the progressive verb tenses Form the perfect verb tenses

Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Adjectives and adverbs

Choose between adjectives and adverbs
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst
Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

Conjunctions
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

Misplaced modifiers

Misplaced modifiers with pictures
Select the misplaced or dangling modifier Are the modifiers used correctly?

Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

What does the punctuation suggest? Commas with nonrestrictive elements

Commas

Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases
Commas with series, dates, and places
Commas with compound and complex sentences

Commas with coordinate adjectives Commas: review

Semicolons, colons, and commas

Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists Semicolons, colons, and commas review

Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses Use dashes

Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

Apostrophes

Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

Capitalization Correct capitalization errors

Formatting
Formatting quotations and dialogue

Global History II

The Long Nineteenth Century (1750 to 1914 CE)

Liberal and National Revolutions Industrialization
Imperialism
Transformation of Labor American Revolution

French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
France’s many Revolutions and republics Haitian Revolution
Latin American Independence

The Great Convergence and Divergence (1880 CE to the Future)

Beginning of World War 1
Other Fronts of World War I
Western and Eastern fronts of World War I Blockades and American entry
World War I shapes the Middle East Aftermath of Hitler and the Nazis
Rise of Mussolini and Fascism
Overview of Chinese History 1911-1949 Interwar
World War II
End of Empries and Cold War
Global Interactions and Institutions
9/11 and the Iraqi and Afghanistan War

Human Rights

Chemistry

Acid-Base Chemistry

Acids and Bases

Calculating pH and pOH
Definitions of Acids and Bases
Help with Acid-Base Reactions
Help with Buffers
Identifying Acids and Bases
Using Acid Dissociation Constant (Ka) Using Base Dissociation Constant (Kb)

Titrations

Help with Titration Curves Identifying Unknown Concentration Identifying Unknown Volume

Chemical Reactions

Balancing Reactions

Balancing Chemical Equations
Balancing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions

Equilibrium

Help with Equilibrium Constant Help with Reaction Quotient Identifying Reaction Equilibrium

Types of Reactions

Help with Addition Reactions
Help with Dissociation Reactions
Help with Double-Replacement Reactions Help with Oxidation-Reduction Reactions Help with Single-Replacement Reactions

Electrochemistry

Help with Anodes and Cathodes Help with Electrolytic Cells
Help with Galvanic Cells

Elements and Compounds

Compounds and Bonding

Help with Covalent Bonds
Help with Intermolecular Forces
Help with Ionic Bonds
Help with Lewis Diagrams
Help with Molecular Formulas
Help with Polyatomic Ions
Help with Resonance
Help with VSEPR Theory and Geometry Naming Compounds

Elements and Atoms

Help with Isotopes and Ions
Help with Orbital Diagrams and Theories Help with Quantum Numbers
Help with Subatomic Particles Identifying Elements
Using Orbital Notation

Kinetics

Help with Rate-Determining Steps Help with Reaction Order
Help with Reaction Rate

Measurements

Precision, Accuracy, and Error

Calculating Error

Scientific Notation and Significant Figures

Using Scientific Notation Using Significant Figures

Units

Help with Concentration Units Using Avogadro’s Number Using Moles
Using SI Units

Nuclear Chemistry

Help with Radioactive Decay Using Isotopic Notation

Phases of Matter

Gases and Gas Laws

Help with Properties of Gases Using Avogadro’s Law
Using Boyle’s Law
Using Charles’s Law

Using Gay-Lussac’s Law
Using the Ideal Gas Law and Combined Gas Law

Phase Diagrams and Transitions

Help with Condensation and Vaporization Help with Melting and Freezing
Help with Phase Diagrams
Help with Sublimation and Deposition

Solids and Liquids

Help with Properties of Liquids Help with Properties of Solids

Solutions and Mixtures

Calculating Solubility Help with Solubility Rules

Identifying Mixtures and Solutions Identifying Precipitates

Stoichiometry

Help with Molecular Weight and Molar Mass Identifying Limiting Reagents
Using Stoichiometry in Solutions

The Periodic Table

Help with Periodic Theories Identifying Periodic Trends Identifying Types of Elements

Thermochemistry and Energetics

Help with Endergonic and Exergonic Reactions Help with Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions Help with Enthalpy
Help with Entropy

Help with Gibb’s Free Energy

Algebra

Numbers

Compare and order rational numbers
Absolute value and opposites
Number lines
Convert between decimals and fractions
Convert between repeating decimals and fractions Square roots

Cube roots
Sort rational and irrational numbers
Classify rational and irrational numbers
Properties of operations on rational and irrational numbers Classify numbers

Operations

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers
Evaluate numerical expressions involving integers Evaluate variable expressions involving integers
Add and subtract rational numbers
Multiply and divide rational numbers
Evaluate numerical expressions involving rational numbers Evaluate variable expressions involving rational numbers

Ratios, rates, and proportions

Identify equivalent ratios Write an equivalent ratio Unit rates
Unit prices

Solve proportions
Solve proportions: word problems Scale drawings: word problems

Percents

Convert between percents, fractions, and decimals Solve percent equations
Percent word problems
Percent of change

Percent of change: word problems
Percent of change: find the original amount word problems Percent of a number: tax, discount, and more
Find the percent: tax, discount, and more

Algebra

Multi-step problems with percents

Measurement

Convert rates and measurements: customary units Convert rates and measurements: metric units Unit prices with unit conversions
Multi-step problems with unit conversions Precision

Greatest possible error
Minimum and maximum area and volume Percent error
Percent error: area and volume

Geometry

Perimeter
Area
Area and perimeter: word problems
Volume
Surface area
Similar figures: side lengths and angle measures
Similar triangles and indirect measurement
Dilations and scale factors
Area and perimeter of similar figures
Area between two shapes
Similar solids
Volume and surface area of similar solids
Perimeter and area: changes in scale
Surface area and volume: changes in scale
Perimeter, area, and volume: changes in scale Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean theorem: word problems
Converse of the Pythagorean theorem: is it a right triangle? Special right triangles

Coordinate plane

Coordinate plane review
Midpoint formula: find the midpoint Midpoint formula: find the endpoint Distance between two points

Properties

Properties of addition and multiplication Distributive property

Simplify variable expressions using properties Properties of equality
Identify equivalent equations

Variable expressions and equations

Write variable expressions
Sort factors of variable expressions
Simplify variable expressions involving like terms and the distributive property Identify equivalent linear expressions
Write variable equations
Does x satisfy the equation?
Which x satisfies an equation?
Solve equations using order of operations
Rearrange multi-variable equations

Solve equations

Model and solve equations using algebra tiles
Write and solve equations that represent diagrams
Solve one-step linear equations
Solve two-step linear equations
Solve advanced linear equations
Solve equations with variables on both sides
Solve equations: complete the solution
Find the number of solutions
Create equations with no solutions or infinitely many solutions Solve linear equations: word problems
Solve linear equations: mixed review

Single-variable inequalities

Graph inequalities
Write inequalities from graphs
Identify solutions to inequalities
Solve one-step linear inequalities: addition and subtraction Solve one-step linear inequalities: multiplication and division Solve one-step linear inequalities
Graph solutions to one-step linear inequalities
Solve two-step linear inequalities
Graph solutions to two-step linear inequalities
Solve advanced linear inequalities
Graph solutions to advanced linear inequalities
Graph compound inequalities
Write compound inequalities from graphs
Solve compound inequalities
Graph solutions to compound inequalities

Absolute value equations and inequalities

Solve absolute value equations
Graph solutions to absolute value equations Solve absolute value inequalities
Graph solutions to absolute value inequalities

Matrices

Matrix vocabulary
Matrix operation rules
Add and subtract matrices
Multiply a matrix by a scalar
Add and subtract scalar multiples of matrices Multiply two matrices
Properties of matrices

Data and graphs

Interpret bar graphs, line graphs, and histograms Create bar graphs, line graphs, and histograms Interpret circle graphs
Interpret stem-and-leaf plots

Box plots

Problem solving

Word problems: mixed review Word problems with money Consecutive integer problems
Rate of travel: word problems Weighted averages: word problems

Number sequences

Identify arithmetic and geometric sequences Arithmetic sequences
Geometric sequences
Evaluate variable expressions for number sequences Evaluate recursive formulas for sequences

Identify a sequence as explicit or recursive
Write variable expressions for arithmetic sequences Write variable expressions for geometric sequences Write a formula for a recursive sequence
Convert a recursive formula to an explicit formula

Convert an explicit formula to a recursive formula Number sequences: mixed review

Relations and functions

Relations: convert between tables, graphs, mappings, and lists of points Domain and range of relations
Identify independent and dependent variables
Identify functions

Identify functions: vertical line test
Find values using function graphs Evaluate a function
Evaluate a function: plug in an expression Add and subtract functions

Multiply functions
Find the inverse of a function
Complete a function table from a graph Complete a function table from an equation Interpret the graph of a function: word problems Interpret functions using everyday language Rate of change: tables
Rate of change: graphs

Direct and inverse variation

Identify proportional relationships
Find the constant of variation
Graph a proportional relationship
Write direct variation equations
Write and solve direct variation equations Identify direct variation and inverse variation Write inverse variation equations

Write and solve inverse variation equations

Linear functions

Identify linear functions from graphs and equations Identify linear functions from tables
Find the slope of a graph
Find the slope from two points

Find a missing coordinate using slope
Slope-intercept form: find the slope and y-intercept Slope-intercept form: graph an equation
Slope-intercept form: write an equation from a graph Slope-intercept form: write an equation
Slope-intercept form: write an equation from a table Slope-intercept form: write an equation from a word problem

Linear equations: solve for y
Write linear functions: word problems
Complete a table and graph a linear function
Compare linear functions: graphs and equations Compare linear functions: tables, graphs, and equations Write equations in standard form
Standard form: find x- and y-intercepts
Standard form: graph an equation
Equations of horizontal and vertical lines
Graph a horizontal or vertical line
Point-slope form: graph an equation
Point-slope form: write an equation
Point-slope form: write an equation from a graph
Slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines
Write an equation for a parallel or perpendicular line Transformations of linear functions

Linear inequalities

Does (x, y) satisfy the inequality? Linear inequalities: solve for y
Graph a two-variable linear inequality Linear inequalities: word problems

Is (x, y) a solution to the system of inequalities? Solve systems of linear inequalities by graphing

Systems of linear equations

Is (x, y) a solution to the system of equations?
Solve a system of equations by graphing
Solve a system of equations by graphing: word problems
Find the number of solutions to a system of equations by graphing
Find the number of solutions to a system of equations
Classify a system of equations by graphing
Classify a system of equations
Solve a system of equations using substitution
Solve a system of equations using substitution: word problems
Solve a system of equations using elimination
Solve a system of equations using elimination: word problems
Solve a system of equations using augmented matrices
Solve a system of equations using augmented matrices: word problems Solve a system of equations using any method
Solve a system of equations using any method: word problems

Exponents

Exponents with integer bases

Exponents with decimal and fractional bases Negative exponents
Multiplication with exponents
Division with exponents

Multiplication and division with exponents
Power rule
Evaluate expressions using properties of exponents Identify equivalent expressions involving exponents I Evaluate integers raised to positive rational exponents Evaluate integers raised to rational exponents Multiplication with rational exponents
Division with rational exponents
Power rule with rational exponents
Simplify expressions involving rational exponents

Scientific notation

Convert between standard and scientific notation Compare numbers written in scientific notation
Add and subtract numbers written in scientific notation Multiply numbers written in scientific notation
Divide numbers written in scientific notation

Exponential functions

Evaluate an exponential function
Match exponential functions and graphs
Domain and range of exponential functions: graphs Domain and range of exponential functions: equations Exponential growth and decay: word problems Compound interest: word problems

Monomials

Identify monomials
Multiply monomials
Divide monomials
Multiply and divide monomials Powers of monomials

Polynomials

Polynomial vocabulary
Model polynomials with algebra tiles
Add and subtract polynomials using algebra tiles Add and subtract polynomials
Add polynomials to find perimeter

Multiply a polynomial by a monomial Multiply two polynomials using algebra tiles Multiply two binomials
Multiply two binomials: special cases Multiply polynomials

Factoring

GCF of monomials
Factor out a monomial
Factor quadratics using algebra tiles
Factor quadratics with leading coefficient Factor quadratics with other leading coefficients Factor quadratics: special cases
Factor by grouping
Factor polynomials

Quadratic equations

Characteristics of quadratic functions: graphs Characteristics of quadratic functions: equations Complete a function table: quadratic functions Transformations of quadratic functions

Graph quadratic functions in vertex form
Solve a quadratic equation using square roots
Solve a quadratic equation using the zero product property Solve a quadratic equation by factoring
Complete the square
Solve a quadratic equation by completing the square Solve a quadratic equation using the quadratic formula Using the discriminant
Graph quadratic functions in standard form
Match quadratic functions and graphs
Write a quadratic function from its vertex and another point Systems of linear and quadratic equations

Functions: linear, quadratic, exponential

Identify linear and exponential functions from graphs
Identify linear, quadratic, and exponential functions from graphs Identify linear and exponential functions from tables
Identify linear, quadratic, and exponential functions from tables Write linear, quadratic, and exponential functions
Linear functions over unit intervals
Exponential functions over unit intervals
Describe linear and exponential growth and decay

Absolute value functions

Complete a function table: absolute value functions Graph an absolute value function
Domain and range of absolute value functions: graphs Domain and range of absolute value functions: equations Transformations of absolute value functions

Radical expressions

Simplify radical expressions
Simplify radical expressions with variables
Simplify radical expressions involving fractions
Multiply radical expressions
Add and subtract radical expressions
Simplify radical expressions using the distributive property Divide radical expressions
Simplify radical expressions: mixed review

Radical functions and equations

Evaluate a radical function
Domain and range of radical functions: graphs Domain and range of radical functions: equations Solve radical equations

Rational functions and expressions

Rational functions: asymptotes and excluded values Simplify complex fractions
Simplify rational expressions
Multiply and divide rational expressions

Divide polynomials by monomials Divide polynomials using long division Add and subtract rational expressions Solve rational equations
Evaluate rational expressions

Trigonometry

Trigonometric ratios: sin, cos, and tan
Find trigonometric ratios using a calculator Inverses of trigonometric functions Trigonometric ratios: find a side length Trigonometric ratios: find an angle measure Solve a right triangle

Logic

Identify hypotheses and conclusions Counterexamples

Probability

Theoretical probability
Experimental probability
Find probabilities using two-way frequency tables
Find conditional probabilities using two-way frequency tables Outcomes of compound events
Identify independent and dependent events
Probability of independent and dependent events
Counting principle
Permutations
Permutation and combination notation

Statistics

Identify biased samples
Mean, median, mode, and range
Quartiles
Identify an outlier
Identify an outlier and describe the effect of removing it Mean absolute deviation
Variance and standard deviation
Interpret a scatter plot
Outliers in scatter plots
Match correlation coefficients to scatter plots
Calculate correlation coefficients
Scatter plots: line of best fit
Find the equation of a regression line
Interpret regression lines
Analyze a regression line of a data set

Variable expressions

Evaluate variable expressions involving integers Evaluate variable expressions involving rational numbers Simplify variable expressions using properties
Sort factors of single-variable expressions
Sort factors of multi-variable expressions

Equations

Solve linear equations
Solve linear equations: word problems Solve equations: complete the solution Solve absolute value equations
Graph solutions to absolute value equations Solve multi-variable equations

Inequalities

Graph a linear inequality in one variable Write inequalities from graphs
Write a linear inequality: word problems Solve linear inequalities

Graph solutions to linear inequalities
Solve absolute value inequalities
Graph solutions to absolute value inequalities
Graph a two-variable linear inequality
Graph solutions to two-variable absolute value inequalities Graph solutions to quadratic inequalities
Solve quadratic inequalities

Functions

Domain and range
Identify functions
Evaluate functions
Find values using function graphs Complete a table for a function graph Find the slope of a linear function Graph a linear function

Write the equation of a linear function
Linear functions over unit intervals
Average rate of change
Graph an absolute value function
Domain and range of absolute value functions: graphs Domain and range of absolute value functions: equations Transformations of absolute value functions

Systems of equations

Is (x, y) a solution to the system of equations?
Solve a system of equations by graphing
Solve a system of equations by graphing: word problems Find the number of solutions to a system of equations Classify a system of equations

Solve a system of equations using substitution
Solve a system of equations using substitution: word problems
Solve a system of equations using elimination
Solve a system of equations using elimination: word problems
Solve a system of equations using any method
Solve a system of equations using any method: word problems
Solve a system of equations in three variables using substitution
Solve a system of equations in three variables using elimination
Determine the number of solutions to a system of equations in three variables Solve a system of linear and quadratic equations
Solve a non-linear system of equations

Systems of inequalities

Is (x, y) a solution to the system of inequalities?
Solve systems of linear inequalities by graphing
Solve systems of linear and absolute value inequalities by graphing Find the vertices of a solution set
Linear programming

Matrices

Matrix vocabulary
Matrix operation rules
Add and subtract matrices
Multiply a matrix by a scalar
Add and subtract scalar multiples of matrices
Multiply two matrices
Simplify matrix expressions
Properties of matrices
Solve matrix equations
Determinant of a matrix
Is a matrix invertible?
Inverse of a matrix
Identify inverse matrices
Solve matrix equations using inverses
Identify transformation matrices
Transformation matrices: write the vertex matrix
Transformation matrices: graph the image
Solve a system of equations using augmented matrices
Solve a system of equations using augmented matrices: word problems

Real numbers

Sort rational and irrational numbers
Classify rational and irrational numbers
Properties of operations on rational and irrational numbers

Complex numbers

Introduction to complex numbers
Add and subtract complex numbers
Complex conjugates
Multiply complex numbers
Divide complex numbers
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide complex numbers Absolute values of complex numbers
Powers of i

Factoring

Factor out a monomial
Factor quadratics using algebra tiles Factor quadratics
Factor using a quadratic pattern Factor by grouping
Factor sums and differences of cubes Factor polynomials

Quadratic functions

Characteristics of quadratic functions: graphs Characteristics of quadratic functions: equations Complete a function table: quadratic functions Transformations of quadratic functions

Graph a quadratic function
Solve a quadratic equation using square roots
Solve a quadratic equation using the zero product property Solve a quadratic equation by factoring
Complete the square
Solve a quadratic equation by completing the square Solve a quadratic equation using the quadratic formula Using the discriminant
Match quadratic functions and graphs
Write a quadratic function from its zeros
Write a quadratic function from its vertex and another point

Polynomials

Polynomial vocabulary
Add and subtract polynomials
Multiply polynomials
Divide polynomials using long division Divide polynomials using synthetic division

Evaluate polynomials using synthetic division Solve polynomial equations
Find the roots of factored polynomials
Write a polynomial from its roots

Rational root theorem
Complex conjugate theorem
Conjugate root theorems
Descartes’ Rule of Signs
Match polynomials and graphs
Domain and range of polynomials Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Pascal’s triangle
Pascal’s triangle and the Binomial Theorem Binomial Theorem

Radical functions and expressions

Roots of integers
Roots of rational numbers
Find roots using a calculator
Simplify radical expressions with variables I
Nth roots
Multiply radical expressions
Divide radical expressions
Add and subtract radical expressions
Simplify radical expressions using the distributive property Simplify radical expressions using conjugates
Domain and range of radical functions
Solve radical equations

Rational exponents

Evaluate rational exponents
Multiplication with rational exponents
Division with rational exponents
Power rule
Simplify expressions involving rational exponents

Rational functions and expressions

Rational functions: asymptotes and excluded values Evaluate rational expressions
Simplify rational expressions
Multiply and divide rational expressions

Add and subtract rational expressions Solve rational equations

Function operations

Add and subtract functions
Multiply functions
Divide functions
Composition of linear functions: find a value
Composition of linear functions: find an equation
Composition of linear and quadratic functions: find a value Composition of linear and quadratic functions: find an equation Identify inverse functions

Find values of inverse functions from tables Find values of inverse functions from graphs Find inverse functions and relations

Families of functions

Function transformation rules Translations of functions Reflections of functions
Dilations of functions Transformations of functions Describe function transformations

Variation

Write and solve direct variation equations Write and solve inverse variation equations Classify variation
Write joint and combined variation equations Find the constant of variation

Solve variation equations

Logarithms

Convert between exponential and logarithmic form: rational bases Convert between natural exponential and logarithmic form Convert between exponential and logarithmic form: all bases Evaluate logarithms

Evaluate natural logarithms
Change of base formula
Evaluate logarithms using a calculator Identify properties of logarithms Product property of logarithms Quotient property of logarithms
Power property of logarithms Properties of logarithms: mixed review Evaluate logarithms using properties

Exponential and logarithmic functions

Domain and range of exponential and logarithmic functions Evaluate exponential functions
Match exponential functions and graphs
Solve exponential equations using factoring

Solve exponential equations using common logarithms Solve exponential equations using natural logarithms Solve logarithmic equations
Exponential functions over unit intervals

Identify linear and exponential functions
Describe linear and exponential growth and decay Exponential growth and decay: word problems Compound interest: word problems
Continuously compounded interest: word problems

Parabolas

Identify the direction a parabola opens
Find the vertex of a parabola
Find the focus or directrix of a parabola
Find the axis of symmetry of a parabola
Write equations of parabolas in vertex form from graphs Write equations of parabolas in vertex form using properties Convert equations of parabolas from general to vertex form Find properties of a parabola from equations in general form Graph parabolas

Circles

Find the center of a circle
Find the radius or diameter of a circle
Write equations of circles in standard form from graphs Write equations of circles in standard form using properties Convert equations of circles from general to standard form Find properties of circles from equations in general form Graph circles

Ellipses

Find the center, vertices, or co-vertices of an ellipse
Find the length of the major or minor axes of an ellipse
Find the foci of an ellipse
Write equations of ellipses in standard form from graphs Write equations of ellipses in standard form using properties Convert equations of ellipses from general to standard form

Find properties of ellipses from equations in general form

Hyperbolas

Find the center of a hyperbola
Find the vertices of a hyperbola
Find the length of the transverse or conjugate axes of a hyperbola Find the equations for the asymptotes of a hyperbola
Find the foci of a hyperbola
Write equations of hyperbolas in standard form from graphs
Write equations of hyperbolas in standard form using properties Convert equations of hyperbolas from general to standard form Find properties of hyperbolas from equations in general form

Angle measures

Convert between radians and degrees Radians and arc length
Graphs of angles
Quadrants

Coterminal angles Reference angles

Trigonometry

Pythagorean Theorem and its converse Special right triangles
Trigonometric ratios: sin, cos, and tan Trigonometric ratios: csc, sec, and cot Trigonometric ratios in similar right triangles Find trigonometric ratios using the unit circle Sin, cos, and tan of special angles

Csc, sec, and cot of special angles
Find trigonometric functions using a calculator Inverses of sin, cos, and tan
Inverses of csc, sec, and cot
Solve trigonometric equations I
Trigonometric ratios: find a side length Trigonometric ratios: find an angle measure Solve a right triangle
Law of Sines
Law of Cosines
Solve a triangle
Area of a triangle: sine formula
Area of a triangle: Law of Sines

Trigonometric functions

Find properties of sine functions
Write equations of sine functions from graphs
Write equations of sine functions using properties Graph sine functions
Graph translations of sine functions
Find properties of cosine functions
Write equations of cosine functions from graphs Write equations of cosine functions using properties Graph cosine functions
Graph translations of cosine functions
Graph sine and cosine functions
Graph translations of sine and cosine functions

Trigonometric identities

Complementary angle identities
Symmetry and periodicity of trigonometric functions Trigonometric identities

Sequences and series

Find terms of an arithmetic sequence
Find terms of a geometric sequence Evaluate explicit formulas for sequences Evaluate recursive formulas for sequences Classify formulas and sequences

Write a formula for an arithmetic sequence Write a formula for a geometric sequence Write a formula for a recursive sequence Sequences: mixed review

Identify arithmetic and geometric series Introduction to sigma notation
Find the sum of an arithmetic series Find the sum of a finite geometric series Introduction to partial sums

Partial sums of arithmetic series
Partial sums of geometric series
Partial sums: mixed review
Convergent and divergent geometric series Find the value of an infinite geometric series Write a repeating decimal as a fraction

Probability

Introduction to probability

Calculate probabilities of events
Counting principle
Combinations and permutations
Find probabilities using combinations and permutations Find probabilities using two-way frequency tables Identify independent events

Probability of independent and dependent events
Find conditional probabilities
Independence and conditional probability
Find conditional probabilities using two-way frequency tables Find probabilities using the addition rule

Probability distributions

Identify discrete and continuous random variables Write a discrete probability distribution
Graph a discrete probability distribution
Expected values of random variables

Variance of random variables
Standard deviation of random variables
Write the probability distribution for a game of chance Expected values for a game of chance
Choose the better bet
Find probabilities using the binomial distribution
Find probabilities using the normal distribution I
Find z-values
Find values of normal variables
Distributions of sample means

Statistics

Identify biased samples
Variance and standard deviation
Identify an outlier
Identify an outlier and describe the effect of removing it

Outliers in scatter plots
Find the equation of a regression line
Interpret regression lines
Analyze a regression line of a data set
Find confidence intervals for population means
Find confidence intervals for population proportions

Interpret confidence intervals for population means

Experiment design
Analyze the results of an experiment using simulations