HIGH SCHOOL | FICTION Recommended books for G9, G10, G11 and G12 grades (14 to 18 years old) GRADES: G9-G10
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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.
5.9 × 9 in | 304 pp | ISBN: 978-607-882-505-9
Autonomy and identity / Emotions, self-knowledge and self-care / Harassment, violence and discrimination
Lo que dejo atrás What I Leave Behind Alison McGhee (text) Mauricio Gómez Morín (illustration)
AUTHOR NOMINATED TO PULITZER PRIZE!
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.
5.1 × 8.3 in | 212 pp | ISBN: 978-607-882-508-0
Growth and maturity / Loss and grief / Love and friendship
Lejos del polvo Out of the Dust Karen Hesse (text) Sérgio Naya (illustration)
BOOK WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL!
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.
5.1 × 8.3 in | 216 pp | ISBN: 978-607-540-053-2
Emotions, self-knowledge and self-care / Family life / Loss and grief
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