All
senior class students must choose and read one (1) book from
the following list. Senior Honors class students must
read a second book from the list below. The faculty will
evaluate the completed reading during your first academic cycle. Be
prepared with comments and a supporting quote.
All
seniors must choose one book from this list:
Crichton,
Michael Prey.
In
the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A
cloud of nanoparticles—micro-robots---has escaped from
the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-
reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For
all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed
as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more
deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy
it has failed. And we are the prey. -- Book Jacket
DeMille,
Nelson. Plum Island.
Convalescing
from a bullet wound on Long Island, NYPD homicide detective
John Corey helps the local sheriff investigate a shooting.
The victims are a married couple, both biologists on Plum Island,
a top secret animal disease research site. When the media suggests
that they stole a deadly virus, suddenly a local murder becomes
a crime with worldwide implications in this masterwork of entrancing
characters, a killer plot, and brilliant comic touches.
Santiago,
Esmeralda. Almost a Woman.
In
a tale with both the universal underpinnings of the classic
coming-of-age or immigrant stories and the very personal details
of one young girl’s life in a new country, Santiago,
a published author and editor who moved to the United States
from Puerto Rico when she was 13, relates her experiences in
Brooklyn as she struggled to find her own way through language
and cultural barriers and a protective mother. – Summary
from Request |
