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Approaches to Learning Books

Social Skills

• Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything, by Kitty Ferguson • STEAM/Scientist (530.1 Fer)
• Saying It Out Loud, by Joan Abelove • Connections (Fic Abe)
• Endangered, by Eliot Schrefer • Bio, Auto, Narr & Mem (Fic Sch) • Green Earth Award for Young Adults 2013/ National Book Award Finalist 2012
• Half Brother, by Kenneth Oppel • Connections/Animals • (Fic Opp)
• Through a Window, by Jane Goodall • STEAM/Scientists (591 Goo)
• Man and his Symbols, by Carl G. Jung • STEAM/Social Sciences (291.3 J)
• The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge • Mysteries (Fic Har) • Costa Book of the Year 2015
• Helen Keller, by Dennis Wepman • Bio, Auto, Narr & Mem (92 Wep)
• Finding Miracles, by Julia Alvarez • Connections (Fic Alv)
• Lowriders in Space, by Cathy Camper • Graphic Novels (Fic Cam)
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson • IB Units/Lit Circle (Fic And) • National Book Award Finalist

Communication: Media Literacy Skills

• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley • IB Units/Lit Circle (Fic Hux)
• The Doubt Factory, by Paolo Bacigalupi • Connections (Fic Bac)
• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, by Shen & Hicks • Graphic Novel (Fic Ahm)
• Canto Bight, by Ahmed, Carson, Grant & Miller • Sci-Fi • (Fic Ahm)
• Renegades, by Marissa Meyer • Sci-Fi (Fic Mey)
• This Machine Kills Secrets, by Andy Greenberg • STEAM/Scientists (364.16 G)
• Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler • Classics/Lit (Fic Tof)
• Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku • STEAM/Mythology (303.4 Kak)
• Feed, by MT Anderson • Sci-Fi (Fic And)

Self-Management Skills

• Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenbacher • Adventure (Fic Nif)
• The Transall Saga, by Gary Paulsen • Adventure (Fic Pau)
• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle • Classics (Fic L’Eng)
• Science of Chaos, by Christopher Lampton • STEAM /Social Sci • (003 Lam)
• Albert Einstein, by Elma Ehrich Levinger • Bio, Auto, Narr & Mem (921 E)
• When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, by Le Ly Hayslip • Bio, Auto, Narr & Mem (959.704 Hay)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling • Fantasy (Fic Row)
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey • STEAM/Social Science
• Ribbons of Time, by Frank Walllism • STEAM/Tech (902 W)
• Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll • Classics (Fic Car)

Communication: Communication Skills

• Contact, by Carl Sagan • Sci-Fi (Fic Sag)
• The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding • Bio/Auto/Narr/Memoir (92 Sno)
• The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko, by Scott Stambach • Bio/Auto/Narr/Memoir (92 Isa)
• There’s No Such Place as Far Away, by Richard Bach • Connections/Animals • (813 B)
• 33 Things Every Girl Should Know, by Tonya Bolden • STEAM/Health Sciences (810.08 B)
• Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible, by Stan Lee • Graphic Novels (Fic Lee) • 2017 YALSA Graphic Novel Award
• The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom, • Bio/Auto/Narr/Memoir (940.53 Boo)
• Bound For Glory, by Woody Guthrie • Bio/Auto/Narr/Memoir (92 Gut)
• Illuminae 01, by Mamie Kaufamn and Jay Kristoff • Sci-Fi (Fic Kau) • Current Evergreen Award Nominee; 2016 YALSA Sci-Fi Award
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger • Adventure (Fic Nif)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling • Fantasy (Fic Row)

Communication: Social Skills

• SOLD, by Patricia McCormick • Connections (Fic McC) • National Book Award Finalist
• The Tyrant’s Daughter, by J. C. Carelson (Fic Car)
• A Man Called OVE, by Fredrick Backman • Connections (Fic Bac)
• The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Galloway
• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, by Erin & Hicks • Graphic Novel • (Fic Hic)
• Mind’s Eye, by Paul Fleishman • Connections (Fic Fle)
• Renegades, by Marissa Meyer • Sci-Fi (Fic Mey)
• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins • Fantasy (Fic Col)
• Extreme Scientists, by Donna M. Jackson • STEAM (F509.2 J)

Research Skills

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, by MT Anderson • Connections (Fic And)
• Behind Rebel Lines, by Seymour Reit • Historical Fiction (2 Edm)
• Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan • Connections/Illness (616.8 Cah)
• Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes • IB Units/Lit Circle • (Fic Key)
• The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner • STEAM/Scientists (597.8 T)
• The Great Scientists, by Jack Meadows • STEAM/Scientists (509.2 M)
• The Measured Word on Poetry & Science, by Kurt Brown, ed. • Poetry (Poetry Bro)
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard • Naturalists (508.755 Dil)
• Quantum, by Manjit Kumar • STEAM/Scientists (530.12 K)
• Sea Turtle Scientist, by Stephen R. Swinburne • STEAM/Scientists (597.92 S)
• Through a Window, by Jane Goodall • Bio/Auto/Narr/Memoir (591 Goo)
• Timeline, by Michael Crichton • Science Fiction (Fic Cri)

Thinking Skills

• Ancient Machines, by Michael and Mary Woods • STEAM/Tech (Woo)
• The Backyard Energy Projects Handbook, by William Foster • STEAM/Tech (621.47 F)
• The Book of Think, by Marilyn Burns • STEAM/Psych • (153.4Bur)
• The Cartoon Guide to Physics, by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman • STEAM/Pure Science (530 Gon)
• Designs for Craftsmen, by Walter Miles • STEAM/Art (745.5M)
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by BettyEdwards • STEAM/Design
• Engineering in the Ancient World, by JG Landels • STEAM/Tech (620 L)
• It’s a Model World, by Suzanne Hilton • STEAM/Tech (688 H)
• Number Words and Number Symbols, by Karl Menninger • STEAM/Math (510 M)
• The Way Things Work, by David Macaulay • STEAM/Tech (600 Mac)
• The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan • Bio/Auto/Narr (978.032 Ega)

Learner Profile Books

Reflective

• I’ll Give you the Sun, by Jandy Nelson (Fic Nel)
• Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (973 Hou)
• Manzanar, Photography of Ansel Adams (940.53 A)
• Starry Night, by David H.Levy (Poetry Lev)
• The Man Who Counted, by Malba Tahan (793.7 Tah)
• Salt to Sea, by Ruta Sepetys (Fic Sep)
• Tofu Quilt, by Ching Yeung Russell (811 Ru)
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate Di Camillo (Fic Di C)

Knowledgeable

• Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Fic Ver)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (500 Bry)
• Sacajawea, by Joseph Bruchac (Fic Bru)
• Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, Kurt Brown, Editor (Poetry Bro)
• George Washington Carver; Botanist, by Jack Andraka (630 Ada)
• The Hive Detectives; Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, by Loree Griffin Burns (638 B)
• Hikaru No Go, by Yumi Hotta (Fic/GN)
• Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen (Fic Mik)

Thinkers

• Chasing the Milky Way, by Erin E. Moulton (Fic Mou)
• Breakthrough, Teen Innovator, by Jack Andraka (610.92 A)
• Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Fic Bra)
• Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Fic Ada)
• Honor, by Elif Shafak (Fic Sha)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Fic Sae)
• Wrinkle in Time/The Graphic Novel, by Madeleine l’Engle/Hope Larson (F L’En/GN)
• When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi (Fic Kal)
• The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (Fic Coe)
• The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, in Regards to Harnessing the Sun’s Energy, by Nikola Tesla (612T)

Courageous

• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (632 C)
• All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (Fic Doe)
• The Force Awakens, Alan D. Foster (Fic Fos)
• Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, by Lynda B Lowery (323.11 L)
• Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper (Fic Dra)
• Taking Flight, by Michaela De Prince (92 Dep)

Balanced

• Love, life and elephants, by Dame Daphne J. Sheldrick
• John Muir, by Sally Tolan (90 T)
• The Japanese House, its Interior and Exterior, by Kiyokio & Tatsuo Ishimoto (722 I)
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card (Fic Car 1-1)
• eat, pray, love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Fic Gil)
• The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (Fic Coe)
• The five people you meet in heaven, by Mitch Albom (Fic Alb)
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Fic Ste)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein (811.5 S)

Inquirers

• Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, a brain surgeon exposes life on the inside, by Katrina Firlik (617.4 Fir)
• The Prisoner of Cell 25, by Richard Paul Evans (Fic Eva)
• Steve Jobs, The man who Thought Differently, by Karen Blumenthal (92 Job)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (616.027 Skloot)
• Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela (92 Man)
• Night, by Elie Wiesel (Fic Wie)
• The Martian, by Andy Weir (Fic Wei)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (813 Ang)
• A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold (508 L)
• Temple Grandin, by Sy Montgomery (92 Gra)
• Team Moon, How 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, by Catherine Thimmesh (629.45 T)

Principled

• The Code Talker, by Joseph Bruchac (Fic Bru)
• Plains Warrior, Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches, by Albert Marrin (973.9 Mar)
• The Other Slavery, The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, Andres Resendez (306.6 R)
• The Underground Abductor, by Nathan Hale (975 H/Graphic Novel)
• Abraham Lincoln, Redeemer President, by Allen C. Guelzo (973.2 G)
• Black Freedom, the Non-Violent Abolitionists from 1830 – the Civil War, by Carleton Mabee (973 Mab)
• Shooting Kabul, by N.H. Senzai

Open-Minded

• In My Hands, Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, by Irene Gut Opdyke & Jennifer Armstrong
• The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker
• Martin Ramirez, Framing His Life and Art, by Victor M. Espinosa
• Smokejumper, A memoir by one of America’s most select airborne firefighters, by Jason A. Ramos
• Khodorchur, 100 Years Later, by Raphael & Vartan Gianighian
• Black Pioneers, an untold story, by William Loren Katz
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
• I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai

Communicators

• Sunflower Splendor, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, co-edited by Wu-chi Liu and Irving Lo
• Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller
• Stephen Hawking, Quest for a Theory of Everything, by Kitty Ferguson
• Dreams of Trespass, Tale of a Harem Girlhood, by Fatima Mernissi
• Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt
• Playing in the Dark, Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, by Toni Morrison
• Child Soldier, When Boys and Girls Are Used in War, by Michel Chikwanie & Jessica Dee Humphreys

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