(OPTIONAL) Students can opt out of doing the Big Project and one of the Mini-Projects by reading an "Alternate Book" picked from Dr. Hartnell's approved list, which is found below. Students must complete the coordinating book review (which can be found by CLICKING HERE) in order to receive credit.
Students should type their book review in a Google/Word Doc and send it to Dr. Hartnell's school e-mail (hartnelb@wcsoh.org).
This "Alternate Book" counts for 125 points. An additional 25 points comes from the one Mini-Project that students will still need to complete.
Students should type their book review in a Google/Word Doc and send it to Dr. Hartnell's school e-mail (hartnelb@wcsoh.org).
This "Alternate Book" counts for 125 points. An additional 25 points comes from the one Mini-Project that students will still need to complete.
APPROVED BOOK LIST
(summaries adapted from Amazon)
"All the Light We Cannot See" (2017, Anthony Doerr, 544 pgs.)
Set Two teenagers are caught up in the frenzy and the mortal dangers of World War II: a German boy who is extraordinarily clever with all things electronic, and a blind French girl.
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Set Two teenagers are caught up in the frenzy and the mortal dangers of World War II: a German boy who is extraordinarily clever with all things electronic, and a blind French girl.
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"Bomb" (2018, Steve Sheinkin, 304 pgs.)
Presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War.
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Presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War.
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"Catch-22" (1961, Joseph Heller, 453 pgs.)
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, whose real problem is Catch-22, a bureaucratic rule that states a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions... but if he requests to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
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Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, whose real problem is Catch-22, a bureaucratic rule that states a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions... but if he requests to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
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"The Diary of Anne Frank" (1947, Anne Frank, 320 pgs.)
A record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable evil and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time.
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A record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable evil and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time.
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"An Elephant in the Garden" (2013, Michael Morpurgo, 224 pgs.)
Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper and takes in an orphaned elephant named Marlene who was set to be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild if the zoo is hit by bombs. However, when the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow?
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Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper and takes in an orphaned elephant named Marlene who was set to be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild if the zoo is hit by bombs. However, when the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow?
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"Everyone Brave is Forgiven" (2017, Chris Cleave, 448 pgs.)
Set in London in 1939, it dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.
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Set in London in 1939, it dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.
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"The Eye of the Needle" (2015, Ken Follett, 364 pgs.)
The XX Committee, or Twenty Committee, was entirely real. The First United States Army Group (FUSAG) under General George S. Patton... was not. Together, these two elements constituted to the most elaborate deception ever deployed in war.
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The XX Committee, or Twenty Committee, was entirely real. The First United States Army Group (FUSAG) under General George S. Patton... was not. Together, these two elements constituted to the most elaborate deception ever deployed in war.
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"Farewell to Manzanar" (2017, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 208 pgs.)
Describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during and following their imprisonment at the Manzanar internment camp due to the U.S. Government's imprisonment of many Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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Describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during and following their imprisonment at the Manzanar internment camp due to the U.S. Government's imprisonment of many Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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"The German Girl" (2017, Armando Lucas Correa, 368 pgs.)
A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion.
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A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion.
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"The Man in the High Castle" (1962, Philip K. Dick, 288 pgs.)
Set 15 years after the end of World War II, a victorious Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany rule over the former U.S. in this alternate history novel.
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Set 15 years after the end of World War II, a victorious Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany rule over the former U.S. in this alternate history novel.
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"Night" (1956, Elie Wiesel, 120 pgs.)
This masterpiece is a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of the author's personal survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
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This masterpiece is a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of the author's personal survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
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"Shadow on the Mountain" (2014, Margi Preus, 320 pgs.)
Recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement.
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Recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement.
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"The Tattooist of Auschwitz" (2018, Heather Morris, 288 pgs.)
Based on interviews conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, this is an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
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Based on interviews conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov, this is an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
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"Unbroken" (2010, Lauren Hillenbrand, 473 pgs.)
Tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian, who survived a plane crash in WWII and spent 47 days in a raft before being caught by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp.
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Tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian, who survived a plane crash in WWII and spent 47 days in a raft before being caught by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp.
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"The War That Saved My Life" (2016, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 352 pgs.)
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him.
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Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him.
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"When My Name Was Keoko" (2012, Linda Sue Park, 208 pgs.)
Provides a portrait of the life of a young girl in Japanese-occupied Korea. Sun-hee and her brother are forced to learn Japanese and give up traces of their Korean heritage. Her father chooses a new name for their family, and the war becomes personal when Sun-hee’s brother joins the conflict on behalf of the Japanese.
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Provides a portrait of the life of a young girl in Japanese-occupied Korea. Sun-hee and her brother are forced to learn Japanese and give up traces of their Korean heritage. Her father chooses a new name for their family, and the war becomes personal when Sun-hee’s brother joins the conflict on behalf of the Japanese.
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"Z for Zachariah" (1974, Robert C. O'Brien, 240 pgs.)
Ann Burden is 16 and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war. But someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.
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Ann Burden is 16 and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war. But someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.
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