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Below you will find lists of suggested titles for each grade level. You are **not** limited to the books on these lists. To get started, identify your grade level and theme. Browse the list of suggestions for ideas and inspiration. Visit your local library to borrow a book for your summer reading project. **Review** your assignment before you begin reading. Enjoy your book! **THE SUMMER BEFORE.... **

**11TH GRADE **

**Personal Crisis/Survival **

Scott, Elaine, 1940-. **Buried alive! : how 33 miners survived 69 days deep under the Chilean desert**

Relates the experiences of thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped two thousand feet below the surface of the earth in August 2010.

Ralston, Aron. **127 hours : between a rock and a hard place**

The author recounts his harrowing experience of being trapped for six days in Blue John Canyon in Utah and having to amputate his own right arm in order to save his life.

Krakauer, Jon. **Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster**

The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Prins, Marcel, 1962-. **Hidden like Anne Frank : fourteen true stories of survival**

"Presents a collection of fourteen first-person accounts that share what it was like to go into hiding during World War II. "--Provided by publisher.

Farrell, Mary Cronk. **Pure grit : how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific**

Chronicles the experiences of American nurses who served in the Philippines during World War II.

Dwyer, Jim, 1957-. **102 minutes : the unforgettable story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers**

Provides a detailed account of the events that took place on September 11, 2001, when two planes flew into the World Trade Center, recounting the experiences of the men and women trapped in the buildings, the rescue workers who tried to save them, and others who were involved in the first hours of that day.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parrado, Nando, 1949-. **Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nando Parrado chronicles his and his rugby teammates' ten-week struggle to survive in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashed on October 13, 1972.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sasson, Jean P. **Mayada, daughter of Iraq : one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chronicles Mayada Al-Askari's experiences after being thrown into Iraq's Baladiyat Prison, the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bashir, Halima, 1979-. **Tears of the desert : a memoir of survival in Darfur**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recounts the author's experiences and observations of the genocide in Darfur, and her role as a physician treating girls who had been raped and mutilated, after tensions between Sudan's Islamist dictatorship and communities such as the Zaghawa tribe exploded.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Keat, Nawuth, 1964-. **Alive in the killing fields : surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nawuth Keat, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge invasion of Cambodia, describes his experiences, discussing the killings of his family members, his enslavement, the relationships that were formed between people from his community, and more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kramer, Clara, 1927-. **Clara's war : one girl's story of survival**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Presents the diary of Clara Kramer, a Polish-Jewish teenager whose family was taken in during World War II by the Becks, an ethnically German family from their town, who sheltered the Kramers, as well as two other Jewish families, in a bunker dug out of the basement for twenty months.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">LeMieux, Richard. **Breakfast at Sally's : one homeless man's inspirational journey**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Richard LeMieux, a once happily married business man who owned several luxury cars and three boats, describes his life after he suddenly suffered economic disaster and became a homeless man on the streets of Bremerton, Washington, and how he survived countless hardships.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Krakauer, Jon. **Into the wild**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Murray, Liz, 1980-. **Breaking night : a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Liz Murray, who was homeless at the age of fifteen and had drug-addicted parents, reflects on how she overcame obstacles and eventually attended Harvard University.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pelzer, David J. **A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive**.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hillenbrand, Laura. **Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aslan, Austin. **The islands at the end of the world**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bacigalupi, Paolo. **The windup girl.**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anderson Lake, an employee of AgriGen, works undercover while searching for food items thought to be extinct, and when he meets Emiko, a strange, engineered being, the two work together to survive and find meaning in a decaying world.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brooks, Kevin. **The bunker diary**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crockett, S. D. (Sophie D.). **After the snow**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows created a new ice age, searches for his family, who mysteriously disappeared from their frozen mountain home, and encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl along the way.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doerr, Anthony, 1973-. **All the light we cannot see : a novel**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II."--Provided by publisher.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gratz, Alan, 1972-. **Prisoner B-3087**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hesse, Karen. **Safekeeping**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Radley returns to the United States after volunteering abroad, she comes back to a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lake, Nick. **In darkness**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, Shorty, a poor, fifteen-year-old gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a hospital and as he grows weaker, he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in 1804.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lippert-Martin, Kristen. **Tabula rasa**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">A girl who has been held in an experimental medical facility to remove the memories that gave her post-traumatic stress disorder begins to recover her memory after fleeing mercenaries sent to eliminate her.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959-. **Grasshopper jungle : a history**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong"--Provided by publisher.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read, Piers Paul **Alive: the story of the Andes survivors** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zeiss, Joyce Burns **Out of the Dragon’s Mouth** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be sponsored for entry into America.