Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.
Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020: An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, Sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. - Goodreads |
Science teacher Ms. Katie Field is the Round Square and Exchange Coordinator. In her free time, she plays ultimate frisbee, mountain bikes, and hangs out with her kids. Ms. Field enjoys reading historical fiction.
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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost. - Penguin
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Science Lab Technician,
Ms. Apeksha Sapkota sponsors the Science Club. She spends a lot of her spare time outdoors--climbing, hiking, snowboarding. When she's not outside, she likes to read, especially personal development books. |
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This was the first novel from the author famous for her excellent TED talk, "The Danger of a Single Story." Half of a Yellow Sun was suggested by Jessica Young who has read some of the author's other books and noticed it gets borrowed from the library a lot! Jessica will be co-hosting the book club meeting next September. Goodreads describes it as: Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all.
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Ms. Bethan Haston teaches Humanities 9 and AP Human Geography. She coaches volleyball and sponsors the Geography Club. In her free time, she likes to adventure outdoors, eat good food, and spend time with her dog and her garden.
Grade 11 student Jessica Young loves reading books and writing in her spare time. Her favourite genre is historical fiction, which is why she picked Half of a Yellow Sun. "Half of a Yellow Sun is a brilliant novel that puts a forgotten conflict in the spotlight through the perspectives of ordinary people living not-so-ordinary lives. If you read Americanah last year and you loved it, check this book out!"
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Overstory by Richard Powers
Enjoy a tree’s-eye view on a planet through a series of inter-connected short stories and characters that create a novel as rich as any forest.
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Ms. Laura Alonzo, is and Explore and Visual Arts teacher as well as a Junior Round Square Representative. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking, kayaking and gardening. Her favourite genre is historical fiction.
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