Grade 10:  All Honors level students read three books; all CPI students read two;
all CP2 students read one.
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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
A young man regularly visits an old man suffering from degenerative disease (ALS) through to his last days in this poignant story of life's greatest lessons.  This inspirational story has been the basis for many award-winning films.


Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Winner of the 1988 National Book Award and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award.  Will Tweedy, age 14, stumbles into adulthood after his grandfather remarries a younger woman only three weeks after his wife's death.  Set in Georgia at the turn of the century, this novel looks at the world through a young boy's eyes on the verge of becoming a man.  (Published in 1984, this book sold over one million copies worldwide.)

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
We are never too old for fairy tales.  Twelve-year-old David feels alienated after his father remarries and his new wife is expecting a baby.  Finding a portal into another realm, David finds himself on a quest of Arthurian magnitude as he fights beasts and dragons to get home, learning through the experience the meaning of honor, loyalty and courage.  This book won the 2007 ALA Alex Award, the 2007 Printz Award and was a nominee for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year.

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
Jackson chronicles the life of a young girl interned in a women's concentration/labor camp during World War II.  While she reports the horrifying conditions of this genocide, her unconquerable spirit shines through the difficulties and pain.  The book won the 2008 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award, the Christopher Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award and the 2008 Leafy Award.

* Dawn by Elie Weisel
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel’s ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.


Eddie Would Go by Stuart Holmes Coleman
The author charts the too short life of Eddie Aikau, legendary Hawaiian lifeguard and champion surfer.  Aikau was known for his daring and heroic exploits in saving surfers and swimmers on Hawaii's North Shore and his untimely disappearance while helping others launched Hawaii's largest ever air-sea rescue search.  This book won the 2004 Elliot Codes Award for Literature, the U.S. C. Waring Award and the Excellence in Writing Non-Fiction Award from Hawaii Book Publishers.

* This book contains mature subject matter.