HIGH SCHOOL | FICTION Recommended books for G9, G10, G11 and G12 grades (14 to 18 years old) >>>
MIDDLE SCHOOL
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GRADES: G6-G8
GRADES: G9-G10
Todo lo triste es mentira (Una historia verdadera) Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) Daniel Nayeri (text) Khosrou (who everyone calls Daniel) tries to tell his story in front of a classroom in Oklahoma, but no one believes him. For his classmates, he is just a dark- skinned guy with hairy arms that makes things up. Nonetheless, Khosrou’s stories are beautiful and terrifying. They span from the moment his family flees Iran in the middle of the night, with the secret police following their steps; passing through the cold refugee camps in Italy; to the city of Isfahan, which smells of jasmine interspersed with scenes from his new life in Oklahoma.
Matemáticas para la vida Maths for Life Edward van de Vendel and Ionica Smeets (text) Floor de Goede (illustration)
What happens when you let a class of school children replace boring arithmetic with maths lessons that are relevant to their own lives? Grade Five makes a deal with their teachers: this year they will do arithmetic that is important to everyday life. This is a celebration of mathematics, current and real, focusing on themes such as growth, environmental awareness and social development.
Castillo de la Lectura Size: 5.9 × 9 in Pages: 304 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-882-505-9
Like a Scheherazade, the narrative voice in this book weaves a story to explore the strange adventure of Daniel's life, as well as that of the heroine who always guides and protects him. Autonomy and identity / Emotions, self-knowledge and self-care / Harassment, violence and discrimination
Castillo Cómics Size: 6.7 × 9.1 in Pages: 280 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-600-046-5
Community action / Logical and mathematical thinking / School life
Lo que dejo atrás What I Leave Behind Alison McGhee (text) Mauricio Gómez Morín (illustration)
Acclaimed as best seller by the Dutch press, this is considered a revolutionary book: a lively, varied and above all extremely uplifting story, far from a dry manual.
Walk and walk, many times without direction, with the sole purpose of getting away from the pain. Will has done this since he was thirteen. He is now sixteen and it may seem that his whole life goes by in the same unimportant places. But it is not like that. With each thought, each walk at dawn, with every little gift that he hopes ease the sadness that surrounds him, and each attempt to recreate a recipe he never learned, Will reminds us of the transcendence of the seemingly irrelevant and the void that stays after what is left behind. A hundred chapters with a hundred words each, where introspection opens windows towards the sublime feelings that arise from the tragedy of life.
Castillo de la Lectura Size: 5.1 × 8.3 in Pages: 212 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-882-508-0
Mundo Mosaico Size: 6.1 × 9 in Pages: 80 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-621-706-1
Mundo Mosaico Size: 5.5 × 9 in Pages: 160 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-889-131-3
Mundo Mosaico Size: 7.7 × 10.6 in Pages: 136 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-891-911-6
Growth and maturity / Loss and grief / Love and friendship
Los derechos de los animales Animal’s Rights Florence Pinaud (text) Amèlie Fontaine (illustration) Do animals have rights? Do we know what our responsibilities are towards them? What discoveries have scientists made about animal intelligence and emotions? What laws protect animals today and how can we learn to best live alongside them on a daily basis? A book exploring the connection between humans and animals, helping us to understand why we should respect them.
Piensa por ti mismo. Una guía para entrenar el pensamiento crítico Think for Yourself: The Ultimate Guide to Critical Thinking in an Age of Information Overload Andrea Debbink (text) Aaron Meshon (illustration) In an age of information overload, this book shows how to think more deeply about life and current events. Covering a wide range of subjects affecting the world today, it helps readers to ask questions, analyze evidence, and use logic to draw conclusions, in order to solve problems and make smart decisions. Each chapter of the book covers one key step in the critical thinking process and includes a real-world example to help convey the importance and relevance of every step. A clever and fun illustrated guide that teaches middle schoolers that young people can make a difference in the world just by thinking critically and understanding.
Generación Robots Robots Generation Natacha Scheidhauer (text) Séverine Assous (illustration)
Those robots that we used to see only in movies have now become a reality. In contemporary life, robots are everywhere and are responsible for countless industrial, medical, and domestic tasks. The robotic revolution has surpassed fiction and behind these advances we can ask ourselves: to what extent have they replaced human labor? Can humans be surpassed by the machines that they themselves made? A wise and well-documented approach to the history of robotics, which not only addresses the issue from a technical point of view, but also from a cultural perspective and ethical reflection.
Lejos del polvo Out of the Dust Karen Hesse (text) Sérgio Naya (illustration)
Billie Jo is fourteen years old and lives in rural Oklahoma during the 1930s. Her family falls victim to the ecological disaster called the Dust Bowl, which dries up the land for years. Refusing to emigrate, her father is determined to stay home, so the family must face many difficulties, not only due to the drought, but also because of an unexpected accident. A verse novel that expresses the protagonist’s vision of loss, perseverance, and hope.
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Castillo de la Lectura Size: 5.1 × 8.3 in Pages: 216 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-607-540-053-2
Activism / Biodiversity, animals and ecology / Environment
Emotions, self-knowledge and self-care / Family life / Loss and grief
Culture and society / Social sciences / Technology
Critical thinking / Language and communication
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