The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tien still enjoys reading his favourite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tien, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?
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Head of Senft House, Mr. Kevin Waterhouse teaches AP Psychology and coaches the Alpine team. In his free time, he enjoys sports, skiing/snowboarding, movies, and seeing friends. Mr. Waterhouse's reading tastes tends to lean towards crime dramas, but he enjoys reading from many genres.
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Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).
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Ms. Shaina Gleicher teaches Design and Tech, Robotics, AP Computer Principles, and sponsors the Robotics Club. In her spare time, she enjoys rock skiing, climbing and EATING! Her favourite genre is historical fiction.
On why she selected this book: "I've never read it, and it's such a monumental piece of art. Who wouldn't want to read a controversial graphic novel that has been banned in some places?" |
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.
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Member of the University Guidance team, Mr. Chris Payne
enjoys travelling, playing sports, reading comics, playing board games and spending time with his family preferably at the beach. He enjoys reading non fiction and fantasy. |