Ms. Geltch's Summer Reading
Book Recommendations 2019
Anger is a gift
While enduring with his father's fatal shooting death by police officers, Moss Jeffries leads protests to stop the infringement of student rights from a police/school district partnership at West Oakland High.
Every falling star
SungJu Lee's idyllic childhood in Pyongyang, North Korea comes to an abrupt end under the regime of Kim Jong Il. SungJu struggle's for survival reaches the point of escaping for freedom in the south.
Faithful Spy
In his native Germany during the advent of the WWII, German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer confronts the tenets his Christian faith with the atrocities of Adolf Hitler.
Goodbye days
Carver Briggs suffers with the sadness and outside blame of how his texting played a role in the car accident deaths of his three best friends--Blade, Eli, and Mars from a car accident.
Irena's children
Social worker Irena Sendler risks everything to save the lives of Jewish children in German occupied Poland.
Love Does
Bob Goff illustrates practical ways of expressing love through his life experiences.
Poet X
As her body quickly develops, Xiomara endures varying responses on how "girls" like her are supposed to behave. Xiomara finds an outlet for expressing her true feelings through poetry which she must keep a secret from her overly demanding mother.
What the night sings
The following trailer says it all. https://youtu.be/smByk4MAYM4