To Read is to empower
To Empower is to write
To Write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To Change is to Live
Jane Evershed (A South African Artist)
Dear Reader,
On a cool day, in the cool of a kitchen corner, with a cool breeze flapping your page
– it is a joy to read. If you are in the 9th grade, let the theme of
"discoveries" guide your reading. The theme of "crossings" guides you
if you are in the 10th grade. "Awakenings" guides you in the 11th
grade. "Epiphanies" spiritedly guides you if you are in the 12th
grade. Know that your family at Boston Arts Academy joins you, reads with you this summer.
BIOGRAPHIES
DAYS OF GRACE by Arthur Ashe
GROWING UP by Russell Baker
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND by Claude Brown
BOUND FEET & WESTERN DRESS by Pang-Mei Chang
ROAD FROM COORAIN by Jill Ker Conway
SOJOURNER TRUTH by Patricia McKissock
ZELDA by Nancy Milford
COLORED PEOPLE by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
THE COLOR OF WATER by James McBride
BECOMING A MAN by Paul Monette
MALCOLM X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by Walter Dean Myers
THE AUTOBIOGRPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS by Gertrude Stein
LITTLE X: GROWING-UP IN THE NATION OF ISLAM by Sonsyrea Tate
RYAN WHITE, MY OWN STORY by Ryan White
THIS BOY’S LIFE: A MEMOIR by Tobias Wolf
MYSTERIES
WOLF RIDER: A TALE OF HORROR by Avi
TRACK OF THE CAT by Nevada Barr
THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKEROID by Agatha Christie
POETIC JUSTICE by Amanda Cross
THE BOOKMAN’S WAKE by John Dunning
"A" IS FOR ALIBI by Sue Gratton
VERTICAL RUN by Joseph Garber
THE RUNWAY JURY by John Grisham
A THIEF OF TIME by Tony Hillerman
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
DEMONS DON’T DREAM by Piers Anthony
PRIMARY INVERSION by Catherine Asaro
FORWARD THE FOUNDATION by Issac Asimov
GIANT BONES by Peter S. Beagle
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury
BRIGHTNESS REEF by David Brin
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN and
JURASSIC PARK by Michael Crichton
THE SHERWOOD GAME by Esther Friesner
NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman
BUG PARK by James Hogan
EXEGESIS by Astro Teler
RED MARS by Kim Robinson
SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson
PERELANDRA, C.S. Lewis
NON-FICTION
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by James Agee
WOULDN’T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY and NOW by May Angelou
PASSAGE TO ARARAT by Michael Arlen
YOUNG MEN AND FIRE by Norman Maclean
OSWALD’S TALE: AN AMERICAN MYSTERY by Norman Mailer
MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK by David McCullough
BLACK DIAMOND: THE STORY OF THE NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUE by Patricia McKissack
THE CONTROL OF NATURE by John McPhee
THE MEDICAL DETECTIVES by Burton Roueche
SONGS FROM THE ALLEY by Kathleen Hirsh
HOOP DREAMS by Ben Joravsky
BALKAN GHOSTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY by Robert Kaplan
MICROBE HUNTERS by Paul De Kruif
ALBATROSS: THE TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN’S SURVIVAL AT SEA by Deborah Scaling Kiley
AMAZING GRACE by Jonatha Kozol
A FIELD GUIDE TO GERMS by Wayne Biddle
GUTENBERG ELEGIES: THE FATE OF READING IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE by Sven Birkert
IN THESE GIRLS, HOPE IS A MUSCLE by Madeleine Blais
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown
VENUS TO THE HOOP by Sara Corbett
THE BROKEN CORD by Michael Dorris
WHO KILLED MY DAUGHTER? THE TRUE STORY OF A MOTHER’S SEARCH FOR HER DAUGHTER’S
MURDERER by Lois Duncan
TALES MY FATHER NEVER TOLD by Wallter D. Edmonds
THE MEASURE OF OUR SUCCESS: A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN and YOURS by Marion Wright Edelman
GORRILLAS IN THE MIST by Dian Fossey
ELENI by Nicholas Gage
A CIVIL ACTION by Jonathan Harr
HIROSHIMA by John Hersey
CHINA MEN and WOMAN WARRIOR by Maxine Hong Kingston
TEENS WITH AIDS SPEAK OUT by Mary Kittredge
THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE by Alex Kotlowitz
CHAMPIONS: STORIES OF TEN REMARKABLE ATHLETES by Bill Littlefield
