Students Entering Grade 11:
Suggested Summer Reading List

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  A multi-narrative graphic novel about a teenage boy named Jim Wang who struggles to find and accept his cultural identity.
   
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 
  The story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.
   
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for their home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
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• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  This thriller deals with a high-stakes online contest that mixes puzzles with video game violence. Set in a depressed future United States, where most people escape into virtual reality, it features a bunch of tough-talking teens fighting to keep their online playground out of the hands of an evil corporation.

These book suggestions are available at our community libraries (click on the library name to visit: William Jeanes Memorial Library, Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library, and Conshohocken Free Library).