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Not-Your-Typical (High School) Summer Reading List (1220L)
Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES
Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.
Your notes should include:
o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main
idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)
o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.
o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.
o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,
support) and choices affect the article.
Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.
Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.
Student ____________________________Class Period__________________
Not-Your-Typical (High School) Summer Reading List
Notes on my thoughts,
Here's a summer reading list for teens with a compelling angle: 15 immigration stories of hardship and hope, identity and
reactions and questions as I
transformation. At a time when legal immigration to the U.S. is the highest ever (one million immigrants a year) and
read:
immigrants or the children of immigrants make up a quarter of the under-18 population, a summer reading list filled with
the voices and stories of young newcomers seems right. You'll find here titles that mix humor with coming-of-age stories
and narratives that break hearts. Some are relatively easy reads; others are demanding, but totally worth the effort. Two
of the books—The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Hope in the Unseen—don't involve journeys
between countries, but across vast cultural divides within the U.S.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
(2007, 240 pp.) Amazon, $10.39
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on Indian Reservation in Washington State.
The story is based on the author’s own experiences. [Reading level: easier]
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
(2006, 240 pp.) Amazon, $9.99
Yang tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his
family only to discover that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King,
subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, who is ruining his cousin Danny’s life with his
yearly visits. [Reading level: easier]
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Díaz
(2008, 339 pp.) Amazon, $10.88
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his
home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the
Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and of finding love. [Reading level: advanced]
The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez
(1997, 134 pp.) Amazon, $10.17
Jimenez’s account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from
strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and
thinning lettuce is told in this book and two sequels. [Reading level: easier]
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa
(2003, 277 pp.) Amazon, $8.99
Violet Paz has just turned 15, a pivotal birthday in the eyes of her Cuban grandmother. But while Violet is half Cuban,
she’s also half Polish, and more importantly, she feels 100% American. [Reading level: easier]
Not your typical (high school) summer reading list. Adapted from . Available May 14, 2013.

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