SummerReads 2021 ~ Grade 8/9 by PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf Find great reading ideas, and open your mind with the Reading Without Walls Challenge! en-us 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC 2025-04-30 16:54:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/565017871/4a10734d7689d96961fbc47a3f2a5e0d/gene_yang_reading_without_walls_e1455192530366.jpg What is it like to attend a mainly white prep school when you're black? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948792 Donte can tell you that it's complicated - and dangerous. By Parker Jewell Rhodes. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948792 See the island of Martha's Vineyard through Mary Lambert's eyes. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948793 Author Ann LeZotte, who is Deaf, shows the richness and peril of being part of Chilmark's historical Deaf community. Winner of the 2021 Schneider Award.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948793 Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities, chosen for an elite middle school track team. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948794 By award-winning author Jason Reynolds. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948794 Parents separating? Yes. Public speaking? No. Romance? Maybe so! PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948795 Authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed tell Jamie and Maya's story in alternating chapters. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948795 Maggi is struggling to adjust to rez life; Carson hopes his musical talent is his ticket out. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948797 Eric Gansworth explores the complexity of Indian Nation identity.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948797 Morgan must enter the Barren Grounds of Misewa to rescue her friend Eli. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948798 David Robertson, a member of the Norway House Cree Nation, creates an absorbing hero's journey. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948798 "Watch for a man with a lizard tattooed on his skin." The constant warning grates on Igor - until the unthinkable happens. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948799 Canadian author Iain Lawrence's latest novel is an intense psychological thriller. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948799 In her quest to rescue her father, Anya must make a bargain with Vasilisa, the tsar's daughter. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948800 The sequel to Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948800 During World War II, teenage Lillia and her circus acrobat family flee Nazi-occupied Poland for what they hope is safety in Shanghai's Jewish refugee community. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948801 By Rachel DeWoskin. Winner of the 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Award. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948801 Immerse yourself in the Mediterranean-like world of the Queen's Thief, where three kingdoms angle for supremacy and clever Eugenides is at the center of the action. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948803 By Megan Whalen Turner. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948803 How far can a lie take you? Sunny Dae is about to find out... PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948804 By David Yoon. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948804 Bree uncovers a present-day link to Arthurian legends while seeking the truth about her mother's death. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948805 By Tracy Deonn. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948805 These Japanese-American teens' lives are changed forever after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948806 By Traci Chee. A 2021 Printz Honor book. Always available on Sora.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948806 Gotcha! PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948807 A humorous look at how famous - and infamous - people throughout history have ended up on the wrong end of the law. By Georgia Bragg (2020).]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948807 Did you know that basketball became an Olympic sport in 1936? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948809 By Andrew Maraniss, this is an action-packed look at basketball's Olympic debut in Nazi Germany. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948809 "You are no better than anyone else, and no one else is better than you." PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948810 Mathematician Katherine Johnson tells her own amazing story of a trailblazing career at NASA, profiled in the movie Hidden Figures. (2019)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948810 How could the water have risen so quickly? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948811 The award-winning, edge-of-your-seat true story of the 2018 rescue of a soccer team in Thailand, by Christina Soontornvat.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948811 Learn about the the beliefs and practices of Islam. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948812 By Sumbul Ali-Karamali. (2012)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948812 Halloween, 1938: Martians landed on Earth...or did they? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948813 Follow the drama of Orson Welles' radio broadcast in this award-winning title by Gail Jarrow.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948813 True stories of Syrian refugees. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948815 By Don Brown. A 2019 Sibert Informational Honor book.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948815 Discover the Edelweiss Pirates - German teens who resisted the Nazis. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948817 By K. R. Gaddy.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948817 Learn about the 2014 public health crisis and environmental disaster in Flint, Michigan. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948818 By Candy Cooper with Marc Aronson.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948818 Explore Japanese cuisine! PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948819 Try your hand at cooking with these tasty recipes. (2017)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948819 What could possibly go wrong at Russian summer camp? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948821 Russian-American author Vera Brosgol relates her humorous and unforgettable experience in this memoir in graphic novel format (2018).]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948821 Dip into a short story collection. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948822 Packed with action! (2016)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948822 It turns out that reading is dangerous... PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948823 Hyun Sook Kim tells her story of reading banned books in 1980s South Korea's repressive climate.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948823 Stories for every mood. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948825 A collection of stories by today's best-known authors.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948825 "Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive." PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948826 Daniel Nayeri weaves threads from his home life in Iran and his journey to the United States in a quasi-memoir-fictional tale in the style of Scheherazade's 1,001 stories.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948826 In the next two minutes, Will will either forgive a murderer - or become one. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948827 This multi-award-winning novel by Jason Reynolds is told in a series of beautiful and brutal poems, as Will meets ghosts of his past and wrestles with his future. ]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948827 A modern take on a classic superhero. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948828 Gene Luen Yang's latest graphic novel adventure.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948828 What is it like to build a new identity? PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948829 In Robin Ha's graphic-style memoir, she recounts "the end of the world as I know it" when she and her mother move halfway across the world.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948829 Eighth grade brings new complications at Riverdale Academy Day School. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948830 The sequel to New Kid by Jerry Craft. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948830 How much can power change someone? Claudia, an "outsider" at her elite prep school, joins the honor council with hopes of making the cut-throat climate better. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948831 Mary McCoy uses a combination of narrative styles in this retelling of the novel I, Claudius. A 2018 Printz Honor book.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948831 What does "home" mean to you? Explore these international perspectives. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948832 Adi Asaid edits this short story collection. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948832 Explore the lush world of Marie Antoinette in this manga series. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948833 By Riyoko Ikeda.]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948833 Explore themes of race, identity, and self-esteem by 30 Black, Indigenous, and other book creators of color, writing in poetry, essays, and short illustrated memoirs. PikeSchoolLibrary https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948834 Edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson. (2020)]]> 2025-04-30 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pike5/4n578txyugvf6umf/wish/3431948834