*Corrado Library at Central Catholic High School*: New Materials in the Collection

Other novels with faith-based themes include The Names They Gave Us (a young woman re-discovers her faith after leaving her church summer camp to work at a camp for those who have been through hard times), by Emery Lord;  and The Possibilities of Sainthood (a young woman petitions to become a saint).

 

Other books that work very well as "Windows" into the experiences of others (or "Mirrors" for some) include We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls around the World by Malala Yousafzai, or The Way You Make Me Feel (a spoiled multi-racial teen has to learn lessons in life working with her nemesis in a food truck).

 

If you miss last year's Summer Reading theme, fear not: Social Justice is always on the table in the library.  We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide is the Young Adult adaptation of Carol Anderson's White Rage  (with foreward by Nic Stone (Dear Martin), and, doing double duty for Poetry month is Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice (not to be confused with Rhythm's of Resistance, the fantastic documentary about protest music in Apartheid South Africa).   Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire our World by Michelle Gelfand is an interesting way of looking at cultural shifts.

 

Lastly, some people may already be looking towards summer travel (or be looking for "Windows" to locations they may have never traveled to): Horizon, by Barry Lopez, takes the reader to 6 different far-reaches of the earth, and Sea People: the Puzzle of Polynesia (Christina Thompson) is a well written and very readable examination of  how we know what we know about the origins and migration of the people of the Polynesian triangle -- not quite a history of  Polynesia, but a mingling of history and methods (that reads like an adventure story...  Just in time for Asian and Pacific Islander Month in May.