Students Have the Power

Bryn Mawr School Summer Reading 2016

On May 17, 2016, the eighth grade joined the Upper School for its annual Summer Reading Convocation, during which students have the power! At the Bryn Mawr School, each student chooses a recommended book to read along with the required reading for the summer. All of the recommended books are nominated by the students’ peers, making summer reading for the students, from the students.

This year, there were twelve nominations by students from eighth to eleventh grade. They are as follows: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde; The List, by Siobhan Vivian; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen; Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury; An Invisible Thread,  by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski; Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger; In the Woods, Tana French; The Young Elites, Marie Lu; Zone One, Colson Whitehead; I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson; The Story of Seeds: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate and Why There’s More of Less to Eat in The World, by Nancy Castaldo; and All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.

Each student gave a short persuasive speech about why her peers should read the book she nominated. Topics ranged from gender identity and sibling relationships, to zombies, to seeds. While a student claimed one book opens up a conversation about police brutality in our society (All American Boys), another said, “you’ll be swept up in it like you’re watching a thriller on the big screen.” (Nyx Deane Polyak The Young Elites)  Ellie Citron 2018 (In the Woods) said, “For me, one of the saddest things about reading a book is its ephemeral nature. You read the book, fall in love, and then it’s over!” Summer is ephemeral; it comes, we fall in love, and then it’s over. But you have the chance to make your summer experience last by picking up one of these books. While reading the book may be transitory, the mark it may leave on you is not. You have the power to make summer memorable. Happy Reading!

Niara Robinson (‘16) is working on part of her senior project in the Edith Hamilton Library, and the other part at the Baltimore American Indian Center. After graduating, she will be attending New York University in the fall.

Celebrate National Library Week!

National Library Week is a time for us to celebrate our community’s love of reading and literature as well as our freedom to access information and our responsibility to use it ethically.  Award winning graphic novelist, Gene Luen Yang, (author of American Born Chinese) is the 2016-2017 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and Chair for National Library Week. That’s Gene in the picture above. Here are a few ways that we can celebrate National Library Week.

1. Little Free Library.

Bryn Mawrtians love to read and share  books  with their friends and teachers. We now have another way to do this! We have a Little Free Library.  A Little Free Library is a small container, that usually looks like a little house, which is  placed in a community location and maintained by members of the community.   People can give books they would like to share, and take books that are of interest to them.  Ours was built by Mr. J.R. Loder, who worked on the BMS facilities crew for many years.  He built  our Little Free Library shortly before he passed away.   We need your help to find a location for it. With your advisory, or alone,  decide where you think our Little Free Library should go. You might want to take a walk around campus to find the best location.  Submit your suggestion to Ms. Rickert-Wilbur. All participants have a chance to win a paperback book of their choice! If you would like to be a Little Free Library Steward, or further embellish our Little Free Library, contact Ms. Rickert-Wilbur.

Our Little Free Library

2. Libraries Transform Campaign.

Go to http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek and under “Ways to Participte” consider participating in suggestions 2 and 3.  If you participate in 3, you could win a $100 gift card.  If you fill out the form and bring it to the Library, you get a chance to win a paperback book of your choice.

3. Check out The News Literacy Project  Photo Fact Checking in the Digital Age.  We  know that it is important to evaluate  the information  we use  in  everyday conversation as well as in our  research projects.  But how carefully do we fact check  images?  Watch this great video, either alone, or with your advisory, to get tips to determine if an image is  legitimate. If you complete this, put your name in the drawing for a paperback book of your choice.

4. Nominate a book for summer reading! (Upper School)

Nominated books should:

· - be appropriate for incoming 9th through 12th graders.

· - be well-written.

· - have the possibility to spark discussion.

· - stimulate personal reflection and be intellectually engaging.

· - be a book that you love and want to share with others in the Bryn Mawr Community.

Submit your nomination with a brief “pitch” stating why your book should be selected for summer reading to Ms. Rickert-Wilbur this week for a chance to win a copy of the One Maryland, One Book, All American Boys.  All American Boys is getting rave reviews.

Thank you for participating in National Library Week!

Fifty-one new books to read during spring break

FICTION	Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Atlantia. New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2015.   "Rio has always dreamed of leaving the underwater city of Atlantia for life in the Above; however, when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, Rio is left stranded below where she must find a way to unlock the secrets of the siren voice she has long hidden and save Atlantia from destruction"--Provided by publisher.       FIC Con YA
FIC Egg	Eggers, Dave.The Circle : A Novel. 1st Vintage Bks. ed., May 2014. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014. Mae Holland is thrilled to be working for the most powerful Internet company, but as her life beyond the company campus grows distant, a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken and her role in the Circle becomes increasingly public.
	Ferrante, Elena. My Brilliant Friend. New York : Europa Editions, 2012.  In nineteen fifties Italy, Elena and Lila learn to rely on each other as they are growing up in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, but their beautiful friendship is not always a shelter from hardship. FIC Fer
FIC Fre	French, Tana. The Secret Place. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2015. Detective Stephen Moran investigates the murder of a boy found at a girls' boarding school when a photo arives with a caption that says "I know who killed him."
Fic Pet	Niven, Jennifer.  All the Bright Places. "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"--Provided by publisher.  FIC NIV Peters, Elizabeth, 1927-2013. Crocodile on the Sandbank New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2013 Upon the death of her father, 32-year old Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody travels Egypt to indulge her interest in Egyptology. She travels with Evelyn Barton-Forbes and her trusty parasol which comes in handy on more than one occasion.
FIC Rey YA	Reynolds, Jason. All American Boys. 1st ed. New York : A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015]."When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend." All American Boys is this year's One Maryland, One Book.
FIC Pon YA	Pon, Cindy, 1973-. Serpentine. In the ancient Kingdom of Xia, sixteen-year-old Skybright, a companion and handmaid to the daughter of a wealthy family, discovers an otherness inside herself and will risk everything to hide her dark secret.
FIC Rub YA	Ruby, Laura. Bone Gap. 1st ed. New York, NY : Balzer + Bray,  2015. Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
	Schwab, Victoria. A Darker Shade of Magic. 1st ed.: February 2015. New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2015. "Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes--as such, he can choose where he lands.  FIC Sch
FIC Sch	Schwab, Victoria. A Gathering of Shadows. 1st Ed. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2016. "Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard...
FIC Str	Strout, Elizabeth. My Name is Lucy Barton : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, [2016]. "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, [and] her love for her two daughters"--Dust jacket.
FIC Wal	Wallace, Daniel, 1959-. Big Fish : a Novel of Mythic Proportions. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012, c1998. William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.
NON-FICTION	Yoon, Nicola. Everything, Everything. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, [2015]."The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--Provided by publisher. FIC Yoo YA
025.04 B	Berkman, Robert I. Find It Fast : extracting expert information from social networks, big data, tweets, and more. 6th ed. Medford, N.J. : CyberAge Books, Information Today, Inc., [2015].
142.78 B	Bakewell, Sarah. At the Existentialist Café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others. New York : Other Press, 2016.
153.35 G	Grant, Adam M. Originals : How Non-Conformists Move the World. New York, N.Y. : Viking, [2016]. "Addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions."--Provided by publisher.
	Vo, Dzung X. The Mindful Teen : Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment At  a Time. Oakland, CA : Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2015]. Offers a mindfulness program to help teenagers deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends. 55.518 V YA
025 R	Smith Rumsey, Abby,  When We Are No More : How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future.Examines how humanity records and passes on its culture to future generations, from the libraries of antiquity to the excess of information available in the digital age, and how ephemeral digital storage methods present a challenge for passing on current cultural memory to the future.
155.92	Banaji, Mahzarin R. Blindspot : Hidden Biases of Good People. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2013.
303.484 B	Burrough, Bryan, 1961-. Days of Rage : America's Radical Underground, The FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. New York : Penguin Press, 2015. "An explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the violent homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s."--Dust jacket flap.
305.235 D	Damour, Lisa, 1970-. Untangled : Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions Into Adulthood. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, [2016].
305.8 T	Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race. New York : BasicBooks, [2003], c1997. Examines racial identity, revealing the source of some of the racial and ethnic stereotypes adolescents are exposed to; discussing reasons why African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and other racial groups often feel the need to stick together; and calling for a more open dialogue about race.
306.766 B MS	Bausum, Ann. Stonewall : Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. New York, N.Y. : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2015. An exploration of the Stonewall Riots and the national gay rights movement that followed.
320.473 G	Gerstle, Gary, 1954-. Liberty and Coercion : the Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
321.094 B	Brinton, Crane, 1898-1968. The Anatomy of Revolution. Rev. and expanded ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1965. Discusses the parallels between the English, American, French, and Russian revolutions.
323.119 T	Treuer, David. Rez Life : an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life. New York : Grove Press, c2012. Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
323.448 S	Staples, William G. Everyday Surveillance : Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life. 2nd ed. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014].
	Padilla Peralta, Dan-el. Undocumented : a Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. New York : Penguin Press, 2015.  323.631 P
324.623 P	Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928. Suffragette : My Own Story. London : Hesperus Press, 2015.
324.623 P	Pugh, Martin. The Pankhursts : The History of One Radical Family. London : Vintage Books, 2008.
338.04 A	Anderson, Chris, 1961-. Makers : the New Industrial Revolution. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Crown Business, [2012].
363.96 W MS	Wittenstein, Vicki O., 1954-. Reproductive Rights : Who Decides? Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First-Century Books, [2016]. Discusses the reproductive rights of men and women throughout history.
368.43 A	Amenta, Edwin, 1957-. When Movements Matter : the Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. Princeton, N.J. ; : Princeton University Press, 2008.
371.404 M	Teaching Clarity, Purpose and Motivation : A Secondary School Adviser's Handbook. Avocado Pr, 2012.
373.73 K	Kost, Carolyn, author. Engage! : Setting the Course for Independent Secondary Schools in the 21st Century.
378.154 S	Stodghill, Ron. Where Everybody Looks Like Me : at the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture. 1st ed. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015].
509 W	Wootton, David, 1952-. The Invention of Science : a New History of the Scientific Revolution. 1st U.S. ed. New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
510.71 H	Hacker, Andrew. The Math Myth : and Other STEM Delusions. New York : The New Press, 2016.
530 R	Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. 1st American ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2016. "An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanicsto elementary particles and black holes."
594.56 M	Montgomery, Sy. The Soul of An Octopus : a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. 1st Atria Bks. hardcover ed. May 2015. New York : Atria Books, 2015. "Explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.
616.858 S	Silberman, Steve. NeuroTribes : The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]. Examines autism and its history, while offering a model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people affected by autism.
741.5 Abi YA	Abirached, Zeina, 1981-. A Game for Swallows : to Die, to Leave, to Return. 1st American ed. Minneapolis : Graphic Universe, 2012.Zeina Abirached, a woman born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981 during the civil war in Lebanon, reflects on her childhood, the disappearance of her parents, and the help and protection she received from neighbors.
741.5 Sam YA	Samancı, Özge, 1975-. Dare to Disappoint : Growing Up in Turkey. 1st ed., 2015. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. "As a child in Izmir, Turkey in the 1980 and 90s, Ozge Samanci watched as her country struggled between its traditional religious heritage and the new secular westernized world of brand-name products and television stars. In Ozge's own family, she struggled to figure out the place where she belonged, too. Her older sister was a perfect student, and her dad hoped Ozge would study hard, go to good schools, and become an engineer to find stability in their country's uncertain economic climate. But Ozge was a dreamer and wanted adventure. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Costeau? Or should she become a world-famous actress? This ... memoir shows how Ozge dared to overcome both her family and her country's expectations to find happiness by being an artist"--Provided by publisher.
813.52 Cat	Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. 1st Vintage Bks. ed., August 2014. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014. "A first publication of the ... writer's personal correspondences includes ... teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging"-- Publishers description.
821.9 E	Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. The Poems of T. S. Eliot Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
921 Eiseley	Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977. All the Strange Hours : the excavation of a life. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2000]. Presents the autobiography of anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley featuring anecdotes from his childhood through his work as a groundbreaking archaeologist.
921 Roosevelt	Ward, Geoffrey C. The Roosevelts : An Intimate History. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Chronicles the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
940.54 C	Childers, Thomas, 1946-. Wings of Morning : The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995. Relates, through diaries and letters, the story of the crew of the Black Cat, the last bomber shot down over Germany.
941.5 B	The Princeton History of Modern Ireland. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

       

760.092 G

Grosz, George, 1893-1959. George Grosz : An Autobiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, [1998], c1983. Chonicles the life and career of George Grosz, one of the twentieth century's satirical artists from Germany.

780.974 O

Oja, Carol J., 1953-. Making Music Modern : New York in the 1920s. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. "New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures put in place during the 1920s prevailed throughout much of the 20th century."--Jacket.

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The Bryn Mawr Community now has access to The Illusionists, Elina Rossini’s feature-length film about the globalization of beauty ideals. Ms. Rossini visited the Bryn Mawr Upper School last fall to show her film, and  was well received by both students and faculty. If you are interested in how global advertising effects our concept of beauty and body image, you have to see The Illusionists!  To view The Illusionists from home, follow the same directions that you would to access our databases. 

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