Book Recommendations from CIS Library ③
Canadian International School of Guangzhou
2022-02-04
To our senior students, reading is more about forming a lifetime habit than a task. In the last piece of this book series, Mr. Dean from CIS Learning Commons has picked a collection of 5 books (or series) for our senior students. From science fiction, biography to novels, we hope this list brings you a lot of joy in the holiday. Read on, CIS!
Maximum Ride (Series)
By James Patterson
The Flock made of teens and children Maximum “Max” Ride, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel are genetically altered beings born with wings. They fight to save their youngest member of the family from the Erasers (Human-wolf hybrid creatures) and the evil scientists at the experimental lab called “The School”.
This series was recommended to our library after Read In week by our Secondary Principal Ted Barks, and there is a full graphic novel adaptation too!
Hidden Figures
By Margot Lee Shetterly
Looking for inspiration?
This book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s when public opinion of women was not at its best. However, these women overcame this and helped their country win the space race!
This biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who were mathematicians who worked at NACA and NASA during the space race.
Ready Player One
By Ernest Cline
This is a science fiction novel and follows Wade Watts on his search for a hidden item in a worldwide virtual reality game in the year 2045. Whoever finds this item would inherit the creator’s fortune.
Wade Watts finds himself becoming an unlikely hero in this treasure hunt through a world full of mystery, discovery and danger.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
By Suzanne Collins
This is the prequel novel for The Hunger Games series and follows the early days of the Hunger Games with a young Coriolanus Snow as the protagonist.
This book is set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen’s events and is set in the Dark Days of Panem. This book explores the 10 years after the end of the war where the people of Panem try to get back on their feet and figure out how to go on in their new reality.
Graphic Nove
Pumpkinheads
By Rainbow Rowell
Confidence and friendship are important for our students.
In this story, Deja and Josiah work in a pumpkin patch every autumn and are seasonal best friends. In this story, they are both seniors in high school so this is their last year in the pumpkin patch!
Deja wants to go out with a bang and Josiah wants to finally talk to that girl he’s been seeing for three years. Will this be their last shift together?
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