2008 Senior Reading Olympics

2008 Senior Reading Olympics
Almond, Steve. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.
Anderson, M.T. Feed.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Black, Holly. Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie.
Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion Wine.
Chang, Pang-Mei. Bound Feet & Western Dress.
Collins, Max Allan. Road to Perdition.
Cooper, Susan. Dark is Rising.
Coy, John. Crackback.
Crichton, Michael. Andromeda Strain.
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk.
Deuker, Carl. Runner.
D’Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season.
Draper, Sharon M. Copper Sun.
Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery.
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying.
Geras, Adele. Troy.
Grogan, John. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog.
Haruf, Kent. Plainsong.
Hayden, Torey L. One Child.
Helfer, Ralph. Modoc.
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Kidd, Sue Monk. Secret Life of Bees.
Lindskold, Jane M. Through Wolf’s Eyes.
Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the Oven.
McBride, James. Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonflight.
McCormick, Patricia. Sold.
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy Queen.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Zel.
Nix, Garth. Shade’s Children.
Pelzer, Dave. Child Called “It.”
Plath, Sylvia. Bell Jar.
Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of Christopher Creed.
Preston, Richard. Cobra Event.
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion.
Stratton, Allan. Chanda’s Secrets.
Volponi, Paul. Black and White.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
Wilder, Thorton. Our Town.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose.

Almond, Steve. Candyfreak : A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.

Almond, Steve. Candyfreak : A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.
Examines the modern candy industry, investigating the influence of corporate power on what sorts of chocolate bars survive and why many "quirky" ones perish.

Anderson, M.T. Feed.

Anderson, M.T. Feed.
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
The author tells of her painful childhood and adolescence, and how she grew out of a childhood fantasy that she was an enchanted white girl to self-acceptance today.

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain.

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Describes a day in the life of several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations of people is related through flashbacks.

Black, Holly. Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie.

Black, Holly. Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie.
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.

Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion Wine.

Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion Wine.
In a small town in 1928, a twelve year-old boy savors the magic of childhood and the wonders of summer.