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Quick Look at All Books

Below find links to Reviews, Purchasing Options, and Borrowing options for all books.

NoveList is a book recommendation and review service the CCHS Library subscribes to. It may contain reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, as well as much more about the book.

Passwords for CCHS students and faculty are located on this Google Document.

NOTE: Some review websites, such as Common Sense Media and the New York Times only allow a user to view a limited number of reviews

Individual book pages with supplemental information will be available in May.

Book of Joy - Quick Look

The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama; Desmond Tutu; Douglas Carlton Abrams
Call Number: 294.34 DAL
ISBN: 9780399185045
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity. The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet. From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others. Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life. From the Hardcover edition.

Non-Fiction, Prose

Reviews

Purchase

Borrow (requires public library card, limited copies available)

Multnomah County Library
- Print
- Audio (via OverDrive)
- eBook (via OverDrive)

Crossover - Quick Look

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander; Dawud Anyabwile (Illustrator)
Call Number: FIC ALE
ISBN: 9780544107717
Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

NoveList - The Crossover
(requires password from home)

Fiction, Realistic, Verse (or Verse with Illustrations)

Major Awards: Newberry Medal (2015), Coretta Scott King (Honor, 2015)

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus (starred review)
School Library Journal (starred review)
Hornbook
See additional Reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal via NoveList link above.

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- audio (via OverDrive)
- https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1219779 (via OverDrive)
Learning Ally

Additional Version

There is also a version of The Crossover with illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile. The text is identical to the Novel-in-Verse, with only minor page-formatting changes. Either version is an acceptable choice for summer reading.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Quick Look

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Call Number: FIC HAD
ISBN: 1400032717
Publication Date: 2004-05-18
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

NoveList - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
(requires school provided password)

Fiction, Realistic, Prose, Mystery

Alex Award (2004) (outstanding adult books that provide teenagers with an introduction to adult literature.)

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus (starred review)
NPR
See additional Reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal via NoveList link above.

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- audio (via OverDrive)
- ebook (via OverDrive)
Learning Ally

Love, Hate and Other Filters - Quick Look

Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
Call Number: FIC AHM
ISBN: 9781616958473
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.

NoveList - Love, Hate and Other Filters

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus
School Library Journal (starred review)
See additional Reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal via NoveList link above.

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- ebook (via OverDrive)
Learning Ally

March - Quick Look

March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GNOV 323.1 LEW
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Presents in graphic novel format the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

The third volume (March: Book Three) of this series won: The National Book Award (2016), The Printz Award(2017), the Coretta Scott King Award(2017), and an Eisner Award (Best Reality Based Book, 2017)

Non-Fiction, Graphic Novel, Memoir, 20th Century History

Reviews

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- ebook (via Hoopla -- unlimited readers, see notes below)
Learning Ally

Important Note #1: Three Book Series

March: Book One is the first volume of a three book series. The compete story is told through three volumes (plus a sequel entitled Run).

We highly encourage readers to go beyond minimum requirements and read the full series. All three volumes are available at no cost (see Important Note #2)

Important Note #2: Online Access

March: Book One (as well as Book Two and Book Three) is available to read digitally, at no cost, using a Multnomah County Library card. Any person attending school within Multnomah County qualifies for a Multnomah County Library Card. Accessing the digital version of the book uses the Hoopla app.

See the links below for information about getting a public library card and the hoopla app.

Get a Library Card - Multnomah County Library
Online Application for Library Card. Residents of surrounding counties may also apply for Multnomah County Library cards.
Hoopla
Hoopla is an app for borrowing Digital Movies, TV shows, Music, and Comics

Last Cuentista - Quick Look

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Call Number: FIC HIG
ISBN: 9781646140893
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

NoveList - The Last Cuentista
(requires school provided password)

Major Awards: Newbery Medal (2022), Pura Belpre Award (Childrens', 2022)

Fiction, Prose, Science Fiction

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus (starred review)
School Library Journal (starred review)
Hornbook
See additional Reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal via NoveList link above

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- audio (via OverDrive)
- ebook (via OverDrive)

Six of Crows - Quick Look

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Call Number: FIC BAR
ISBN: 9781627792127
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"

NoveList - Six of Crows
(requires school provided password)

Fiction, Prose, Fantasy, Heist

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus (starred review)
School Library Journal (starred review)
NPR
See additional Reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal via NoveList link above

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- ebook (via OverDrive)
Learning Ally

Stamped - Quick Look

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: 305.8 REY
ISBN: 9780316453691
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"

Non-Fiction, Prose

Reviews

GoodReads
Kirkus (starred review)
School Library Journal (starred review)
NPR
Other

Purchase

Borrow

Multnomah County Library (requires public library card, limited copies available)
- print
- audio (via OverDrive)
- ebook (via OverDrive)
Learning Ally

Advanced Option: Stamped from the Beginning

Readers interested in a longer, more complex, read for their Summer Reading choice may choose the original version of the book: Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi. However, all readers are welcome to read Reynolds' remix if they choose to do so.

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: 305.8 KEN
ISBN: 9781568584638
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history --Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. DuBois, and Angela Davis -- and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"