Grade 11: All juniors read the following book.
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The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Spun from a series of stories set in Haiti under the brutal Duvalier regime, this novel reveals the truth about the past of a Haitian immigrant to the United States.  Through his viewpoint and those of his artist daughter and others, his story is slowly unwound as we learn about his "work" in Haiti and its undying effects on his victims, no matter where they live - in basement apartments in Brooklyn, N.Y., Florida or anywhere their troubled pasts follow.  This winner of the American Book Award, the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award and nominee for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction explores the effects of past experiences on the present.

AP Assignment
Advanced Placement Students:

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack O'bama

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsign