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History

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “History”:

Senior: Daily Life During the French Revolution; Unsung Heroes of World War II; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis; Russian Revolution of 1917; Defining Documents in World History: Ancient World (2700 B.C.E.-c.500 C.E.)

Middle: The Split History of World War I; North Korea: A closer look at the secret state; Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; The Red Baron; Women in the Renaissance

Junior: Ancient Roman Technology; Guts & Glory: The Vikings; Pompeii; Stone Age; The Story of Tutankhamun

2022-05-06T12:49:05+00:00May 6th, 2022|

Fantasy fiction

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Fantasy Fiction”:

Senior: The Unwanteds Island of Silence; Stars Above; How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse; There Will Come a Darkness; Damsel; The Candle and the Flame

Middle: The Frozen Telescope; The Serpent’s Secret; Serafina and the Black Cloak; Amari and the Night Brothers; Sky Song; The Midnight Lie

Junior: The Naughtiest Unicorn; Billy and the Mini Monsters; The Chicken Gave it to Me; The Angel of Nitshill Road; Fairy Unicorns; The Land of Roar

2022-04-29T09:37:35+00:00April 29th, 2022|

Classic fiction

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Classic Fiction”:

Senior: Rebecca; Pride & Prejudice; Dracula; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Lord of the Flies

Middle: The Jungle Book; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Wind in the Willows; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; The Secret Garden; Frankenstein

Junior: Little House in the Big Woods; Heidi; The House at Pooh Corner; Emil and the Detectives; Pippi Longstocking; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2022-04-22T13:49:29+00:00April 22nd, 2022|

Climate Change

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Climate Change”:

Senior: Solutions for a Cleaner, Greener Planet: Environmental chemistry; Dry; Saving Planet Earth; The Paris Climate Agreement; Climate Change and Population Displacement; Eyes Wide Open

Middle: Alternative Energy Sources: The end of fossil fuels?; The Extreme Climate; Defining and Discussing Climate Change; Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas; Planet Protection; Climate Change Eco Facts

Junior: Analyzing Disappearing Habitats; Climate Change; Climate Change and Food Production; Climate Scientists at Work; Weather & Climate Change; Eco Alert: Climate change

2022-04-06T07:02:10+00:00April 16th, 2022|

Human Rights

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Human Rights”:

Senior: Feminism; The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Righteous Mind; The Native American Struggle; The Civil Rights Movement; Reproductive Rights

Middle: After Gandhi: One hundred years of nonviolent resistance; The Women’s Movement and the Rise of Feminism; Gender Equity and Identity Rights; Society and Social Organizations; Freedom Summer: The 1964 struggle for civil rights in Mississippi; Miles to Go for Freedom

Junior: Defining and Discussing Human Rights; Defining and Discussing Women’s Rights; Hot Topics: Human Rights; What’s the Big Idea? Human Rights; The Struggle for Freedom; Independence and Equality

2022-03-25T13:06:05+00:00March 25th, 2022|

Art

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Art”:

Senior: History of Art; Realism; Pop Artists; How to Draw Like a Fashion Designer; Women Artists of the New Millennium; Graphic

Middle: How to Draw Horses; Famous Artists; Introduction to Art; Understanding Modern Art; Drawing Faces; Mecha Mania

Junior: Leonardo da Vinci; Paul Cézanne; Complete Book of Art Ideas; Vincent van Gogh; Famous Paintings; Modern Art

2022-03-18T11:49:06+00:00March 18th, 2022|

Drama

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Drama”:

Senior: Hamilton: The Revolution; The History of Theatre; Drama; Amadeus; A Streetcar Named Desire; Romeo and Juliet

Middle: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; You’ve Got Talent; Tales from a Not-so-Dorky Drama Queen; First Term at L’Etoile; Super Stars

Junior: Pop Star; Thea Stilton and the Phantom of the Orchestra; Hamlet and Cheese; Drama Queen; The Disappearing Magician; Phoebe Finds her Voice

2022-03-11T10:20:06+00:00March 11th, 2022|

Poetry

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Poetry”:

Senior: The Poet X; The Haiku Anthology; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (and other poems); Poems on the Underground; Hope for the Flowers; Carol Ann Duffy: Collected Poems

Middle: Booked; Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; School’s Out; Rebound; Tales of Death and Dementia; Green Glass Beads

Junior: Cloud Busting; Talking Turkeys; Pip; Dirty Beasts; Classic Poems; A Family of Poems

2022-03-04T12:56:22+00:00March 4th, 2022|

Maps

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Maps”:

Senior: Atlas Obscura; The Culture Map; The Girl of Ink and Stars; Prisoners of Geography; Flatland; Atlas of Global Development

Middle: Cartographica Helvetica; Treasure Hunters; Lives of the Explorers; 10 Routes that Crossed the World; Ferdinand Magellan Sails Around the World; The Glass Sentence

Junior: Mapping the World; How to Read a Map; Mapping Information; The Great Global Puzzle Challenge with Google Earth; An Atlas of Imaginary Places; Essential Atlas of the World

2022-02-18T13:21:27+00:00February 18th, 2022|

Love

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Love”:

Senior: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me; Pride; Lovely War; Eliza and her Monsters; Field Notes on Love; The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Middle: Ms. Bixby’s Last Day; The Girl Who Drank the Moon; Noughts & Crosses; Notes From a Totally Lame Vampire; Puppy Love; The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

Junior: A Boy Called Bat; Dear Olly; The Lion of Mars; Love and Chicken Nuggets; Saving Winslow; The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

2022-02-11T13:06:46+00:00February 11th, 2022|

Science

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Science”:

Senior: Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor; Rosalind Franklin: The dark lady of DNA; Blood Work: A tale of medicine & murder in the scientific revolution; Brief Answers to the Big Questions; The Effectiveness of Alternative Medicine

Middle: The Shocking World of Electricity; A Crash Course in Forces and Motion; A Journey through the Digestive System; Investigating the Scientific Method; Exploring Ecosystems; The Basics of Cell Life

Junior: Materials; Forces and Motion; Light and Sound; Electricity and Magnetism; The Stuff Between the Stars; Muscles and the Skeleton

2022-02-04T13:01:52+00:00February 4th, 2022|

Language

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Language”:

Senior: Language, Society & Power; Speeches that Changed the World; The Language of Advertising; The Language Instinct; They Say/I Say; Language and Gender

Middle: Le Japonais en Manga (Japanese & French);  हैरी पॉटर और फिलॉस्फर्स स्टोन (Hindi); 哈利·波特与密室 (Chinese); Забавная история (Russian); El viaje con papa (Spanish); 불 같은 개 (Korean)

Junior: I See the Sun in Russia (Russian); How to Build an Igloo and a Qamutiik (Inuktitut); Fox Fables (Swahili); Mulan (Chinese); The Best Gift of All (Spanish); Japanese Nursery Rhymes: Carp Streamers, Falling Rain and other traditional favorites (Japanese)

2022-01-28T13:16:28+00:00January 28th, 2022|
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