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Directions: Choose one book from the list based on your reading level and interest.A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahChinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen MahI Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormickIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezKaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark MathabaneLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniReading Level: EasierChinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen MahIn Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family (Goodreads).Reading level: 6th grade / Interest level: 7th – 12th grade Online PDF link: HYPERLINK "" Reading Level: Easy to MediumI Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick (Young Readers Edition)When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, a fifteen year old girl refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.?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 has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize (Goodreads).Reading Level: 6th – 9th grade / Interest level: 9th – 12th grade Online PDF link: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezThis is a tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of a dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, this book?is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered (Goodreads).Reading Level: 6th – 9th grade / Interest level: 9th – 12th grade Online text: the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez FULL TEXT.pdfThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakSet during World War II in Germany, this novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. With the help of her father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul (Goodreads).Reading level: 6th – 9th grade / Interest level: 9th – 12th gradeOnline text: : Medium to DifficultA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahWhat is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? In this book, shares his story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he had been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts (Goodreads).Reading level: 6th grade / Interest level: 9th – 12th grade Online PDF Link: of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenSpeaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the arts of the geisha: dance and music, wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair, and more. This is a fictional story based on extensive research into the secretive geisha world (Goodreads).Reading level: 9th to 12th gradeOnline text link: Or Level: More Difficult / Mature ReadingThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniAmir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir's choice to abandon his friend amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart. But so strong is the bond between the two boys that Amir takes a journey back to a distant world, to try to right past wrongs against the only true friend he ever had (Goodreads).Level: mature topics, long novel, higher reading levelOnline PDF link: Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark MathabaneMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university (Goodreads).Reading level: 10th – 12th grade, matureNo free PDF version of this book, but you may purchase an online version, or visit a library or bookstore. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelThis?romantic tale contains moments of magic, wit, and recipes. This novels tells the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. For the next twenty-two years, Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck, and fate finally reunite them. (Amazon). Reading level: matureOnline text: text in Spanish: Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading.?Reading Lolita in Tehran?is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature (Goodreads).Reading level: 9th – 12th gradeNo free PDF version of this book, but you may purchase an online version, or visit a library or bookstore. ................
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