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Read by Lisa Hardey
Set in crime ridden Victorian London were Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. She is a peculiar child whose powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors in this age of discovery.
"The child lunges, open mawed. The man stands dazed...Red lines track from palm to wrist to elbow, the teeth marks turn mulberry, then black...Sweat beading on his forehead, his lip...a blistering poison spreads, a sudden fire burning itself out as it travels...All the time the creature watches him, her eyes darkening...two eyes of polished jet, their surfaces flat, so strangely flat."
(pg. 3)

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Read By Will Hassoun
Summary - This book is set in the late 90s early 2000s, Caitlin and Martin are both 15 year old kids who live two very different lives. Caitlin lives in Pennsylvania in a comfy household with a very supporting and loving family. While Martin on the other hand lives in the slums of Zimbabwe, fighting every day against poverty and hunger. They soon become friends because of a pen-pal assignment, which lead to 6 and a half years of life changing interaction.

Quote - "Flames poured out of the gaping wound. It was like watching a horror movie, yet this was real." (Caitlin Page 227) This was her description of what she saw on TV regarding 9/11

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Read by Sarah Jones

Summary: After watching her best friend get shot by a police officer, Starr is able to see both sides of the story. She lives in a poor black neighborhood,  but attends school at a mostly white prep school. She struggles deciding how she should act and how to deal with the stereotypes she faces everyday. Many people used stereotypes to justify her best friend's murder. Starr decides to speak out and explain her side of the story to protect the black community. She wants to promote change and stop something like this from happening again.

Quote: “The drug dealer. That’s how they see him. It doesn’t matter that he’s suspected of doing it. “Drug dealer” is louder than “suspected” will ever be.” pg. 113

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Read by Juliana Fuentes

Summary: Justyce McAllister is a high schooler who is facing the challenges of racial profiling. He navigates these challenges by writing a journal and studying the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout the story, we learn about his difficult upbringing and the loss of his best friend due to police brutality.
Quote: "Every time I turn on the news and see another black person gunned down, I'm reminded that people look at me and see a threat instead of a human being." (pg. 59)

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Read by Hope Butler
Summary- The Dashwood sister's father dies and their half brother now owns the estate, turning their lives upside down, and forcing the sisters and their mother to leave. The two eldest sisters, Elinor and Marianne, fall in love with two different men and both hope to be engaged soon. The men may not have the same thoughts as the girls and may not be who they first appeared to be.
Quote- “‘You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that anyone unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience-or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope(page 55).’”

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Read by Olivia Aultman
The Memory of Light focuses not only on the events that lead to Vicky's suicide attempt, but on the recovery from one, about surviving when life doesn't seem to be worth it, and how we carry on anyway.
Quote: “ They are two different questions: Do you want to die? And do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don't seem like two different things you can pull apart. They’re wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.” (pg 23)

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Jennifer Simmons
A series of books based on a WWII nurse who time travels through a stone circle back 200 years to 1740s Scotland.  She ends up trying to stop Bonnie Prince Charlie from starting the doomed rebellion to free Scotland from England with lots of misadventures along the way.

Lord John Gray is the new commander of the prison. In shock and disgust at learning of the rat problem in the cells, orders cats to be brought in to take care of them. The prison leader gently counters that the cats will catch the rats. As Lord John nods his head, the prisoner continues that the men would then have nothing to eat.

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Read by Paige Hurley
After the unknown man gets out of the psych ward he goes to a therapist, he has to talk about why he did everything but he hates doing it. He tries to leave but can't and threatens his therapist by killing her. He gets out of his session and sees a little girl crying and tries to kidnap her but is caught.
Quote “We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”

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Read by Emely Camacho
Julia had always seen her older sister Olga as the "perfect Mexican daughter", she would stay home and help her mom with everything at home. Julia always wondered why Olga never did anything with her life. One day Olga died in a accident, after the accident Julia is constantly thinking about her sister and her life, she begins to find hidden things and finds out the truth about her family. Throughout the story she goes through a lot of ups and downs and begins the path to self discovery.
Quote: “I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
“Be careful. Please. The border…The 🤬 border.” I feel a wildness spreading through me. “It’s nothing but a giant wound, a big gash between the two countries. Why does it have to be like that? I don’t understand. It’s just some random, stupid line. How can anyone tell people where they can and can’t go?”

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By Antonio Iturbe
Read by William King

Half of all the Auschwitz prisoners are killed in the gas chambers. These casualties include many teachers and children from Block 31, Rudi's girlfriend Alice, and the director of Block 31 Fredy Hirsch. Dita and the remaining teachers now have to keep the children safe and their activities secret without their leader.

"There was a time he believed in revolutions and the idea that there could be a just war. That was so long ago…”

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Read by Josiah Flu

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Name: Meredith Ray
Book & Author: Here is my Hope by Randi Henderson

Summary: The fourth story of my book is about a professional Olympic swimmer. On his 62nd birthday, he gets awful pains in his chests. He goes to the John Hopkins Hospital and gets checked out, the doctors come back and say that he has an unknown cancer growing next to his heart.

Quote: ¨Nothing can be accomplished if all possible objections must first be overcome.¨

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Read by Taylor Perry
Summary: A book about sexism and the way men control the government in this current time period. The main character, Jean McClellan, was a doctor before the word counter bracelets were introduced. She was an extremely well-respected doctor. She has a daughter who is younger and doesn't quite comprehend that she only has limited words so she does her best to protect her daughter. The book goes more into depth about how unfair the world is to women and etc.
Quote: "Don't you worry, honey. I'll love you 'til you're dead. Maybe a while after that."

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A child called it
He is a boy who gets brutally beaten and is treated very badly. He longs for a loving life, like the one he once knew. His own brothers don't even want to spare a look at him in spite of his look.  “As soon as we were in the car, she ordered me to lie on the floor of the backseat, where her boys took turns stomping me with their feet for “mouthing off” to them and mother.”

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

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Read by Korben N. Stone
White Fragility about the concept of white fragility. A phenomenon of how many white people will respond negatively to accusations of bias or of generalization of their race. It additionally describes how this response upholds racists systems and institutions.
"The metaphor of a birdcage is used to describe the interlocking forces of oppression. "if you stand close to a birdcage and press your face against the wires, your perception of the bars will disappear and you will have an almost unobstructed view of the bird. If you turn your head to examine one of the wires closely, you will not be able to see the other wires. If your understanding of the cage is based on this myopic view, you may not understand why the bird doesn't just go around single wire and fly away. You might even assume that he bird liked or chose his place in the cage.
But if you step back and took a wider view, you would begin to see where the wires come together in an interlocking pattern–a pattern that works to hold the bird firmly in place. It now becomes clear that a network of systemically related barriers surrounds the bird. Taken individually, none of these barriers would be that difficult for the bird to get around, but because the interlock with each other, they thoroughly restrict the bird. While some birds may escape from the cage, most will not. And certainly those that do escape will have to navigate many barriers that birds outside the cage do not." (DiAngelo, pg. 23)

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Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong

-blake perkins-rust

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Read by Kenji Tanikawa
Social outcast Zack Lightman only sees himself succeeding by playing video games. Against all odds, he gets recruited by the military grade defense system from his video game called the Earth Defense Alliance. The EDA (for short) is a secret organization that hides extra terrestrial oddities from space. Essentially, they are "Area 51". Armada was a game created by the EDA to search out serious military troops in hiding. These people would be the grand army that fights the ever so expected Sobrukai (aliens) that would soon approach. The top 1,000 players from both Armada and Terra Firma were recruited to join in the epic battle that would soon to come. (Armada is aerial support, and Terra Firma is ground support. Ying Yang, Potato Potato. Tomato Tomatoe) "They showed us the most disturbing government training film in history" Zack is about to enter the most scuffed days of his life.

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Read by Tanner Short

Auggie Pullman born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie Pullman becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to discover their compassion and acceptance, Auggie's extraordinary journey will unite them and prove you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

"I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we go to see what we looked like under the masks."

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Read by Jasmine Undeen.
Tempee a 17 year girl is having a hard time dealing with her sisters death as well as her parents, She only has herself now deal with the pain. Every she goes she is constantly reminded about sister on the island they live on, and feeling guiltily for taken her for granted at times and wishing she had done things different.
´´ I couldn't let her last hours be by herself.´´

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By Benjamin Alire Saenz

A kid named Salvador is off to his first day of school. A kid from school goes up to Sal and said he's dad is a bad word. salvador punches him but Sal has never been a violent person. As he goes on in the book we learn more about Sal, and his biological father.

Quote: "Maybe there was something in it that would change things in ways I didn't want them to change."

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quieten becomes desperate to go on a quest not realizing how good his life is until its to late.  quote: "Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but a special kind of theologist, one who studies gods the way an entomologist studies insects. Take as your dataset the entirety of world mythology and treat it as a collection of field observations and statistics pertaining to a hypothetical species: the god. Proceed from there"

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OK so basically, just a bunch a mini story's. A unknown organisation or a bunch a people interview people from there time in the War.
here is a quote: ¨Ingredients:molasses from the United Statesanise from Spainlicorice from Francevanilla (bourbon) from Madagascarcinnamon from Sri Lankacloves from Indonesia¨
clearly a good quote to put here.