Reading Without Walls
Challenge yourself to learn about something different!
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This simple challenge is explained on his website: Reading Without Walls. You can also learn a bit about it by watching the video below.
Michael usually concerns himself with basketball and hanging out with his friends, but every once in a while, his parents drag him to meetings and rallies with their anti-immigrant group. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. (REALISTIC FICTION)
After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself. (REALISTIC FICTION)
American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland. (796.334 ST)
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man. (REALISTIC FICTION)
Jason Reynolds' books reflect many of the situations he dealt with growing up.
Here is a quote from Reynolds' blog:
"Here's what I know: I know there are a lot — A LOT — of young people who hate reading. I know that many of these book haters are boys. I know that many of these book-hating boys, don't actually hate books, they hate boredom. If you are reading this . . . know that I feel you. I REALLY do. Because even though I'm a writer, I hate reading boring books too."
A girl, having travelled with her mother to an animal sanctuary for bonobos in the Congo, struggles to survive with the animals after revolution breaks out and she and the chimpanzees are forced to flee into the jungle. (REALISTIC FICTION)
When her best friend goes missing after a Rumspringa party, Lucy, who feels guilty about not keeping better track of Alice, begins a desperate search for her friend while trying to keep her own secret safe. (REALISTIC FICTION)
In this book, acclaimed author Bridget Heos uses real-life cases to tell the history of modern forensic science, from the first test for arsenic poisoning to fingerprinting, firearm and blood spatter analysis, DNA evidence, and all the important milestones in between. (363.25 HEO)
Holded up in their missing neighbors' cabin in a Montana blizzard, seventeen-year-old Zoe and her little brother are rescued from an intruder by X, a bounty hunter sent from the Lowlands to claim the souls of evil men. (SUPERNATURAL)
Jalen steals a bag of autographed baseballs from aging Yankees’ superstar James Yager to peddle for the requisite $990. Caught, he escapes punishment by claiming so insistently that he can predict pitches that the skeptical but slumping Yager brings him to Yankee Stadium for a tryout. (SPORTS)
Baseball star, Derek Jeter, is the co-author of this book!
In a war zone, military working dogs and their handlers risk their lives for each other every day. Learn what these dogs do and how they are trained, and meet some who have served in military conflicts around the world. (355.4 GOL)
Marjorie Campbell lives in 1954, and she is has lots of questions. Should she befriend the new girl in school, who claims to be from Canada but seems undeniably German? What about the banned books her mother smuggled out of the library and stashed under Marjorie's bed? Does wearing a red scarf make her a Commie sympathizer, as Bernadette asserts? And what's worse, anyway, a Nazi or a Commie? (HISTORICAL FICTION)
World War II is coming to an end, and since the Japanese newspapers don't report lost battles, the Japanese people are not entirely certain of where Japan stands. Yuriko is used to the sirens and the air-raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the bombs hit Hiroshima, it's through Yuriko's twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror. (HISTORICAL FICTION)
A collection of science fiction and fantasy tales, including six graphic stories, by twenty women writers and artists from India and Australia. (FANTASY)
After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure. (HISTORICAL FICTION)
Find out about the fast and furious growth and evolution of video games (including how they are quickly taking over the world!) by looking at some of the most popular, innovative, and influential games ever, from Pong, the very first arcade game ever, to modern hits like Uncharted. (794.8 HAN)
Short story collection by many authors with popular books found in the HMS Library! Marissa Meyer • Glitches Marie Rutkoski • Bridge of Snow Jennifer Mathieu • Dynamite Junior Anna Banks & Emmy Laybourne • Monster Crush Courtney Alameda • Fixer Jessica Brody • Unstolen Ann Aguirre • Secret Heart Lish McBride • Death & Waffles Lindsay Smith • Krisis Katie Finn • Deleted Scenes Caragh M. O’Brien • Tortured Nikki Kelly • Blue Moon Gennifer Albin • The Cypress Project Leigh Bardugo • The Too-Clever Fox (SUPERNATURAL)
What if a message someone sends you today is the last you'll ever receive from them? Would you respond differently, or even at all, if you knew that the end of a friendship, a brutal breakup, or worse might be coming, and that this might be your only chance? (808.86 LAS)
When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. (SCIENCE FICTION)
Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today's most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. And they all have a story to tell. (HISTORICAL FICTION)
Years after Darra Monson's father stole a minivan with Wren Abbott hiding in the back, the girls come face to face at summer camp and together they try to work through what happened to them and the impact it had on their lives. (REALISTIC FICTION)
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. (REALISTIC FICTION)
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered. (REALISTIC FICTION)
Sharing your thoughts about the books in this challenge
You can download the app and put in the code k8fmkcb. You can use your phone to record yourself.
If you would rather use a computer's webcam to take your video, you can go to this link and record yourself: https://flipgrid.com/k8fmkcb.
I have also linked the Flipgrid to the button above. AND, it's a button on the HMS Library Canvas page!