High School: Core Library - Grade 9/10

"Tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different--and far more satisfying--than he ever imagined"--Provided by publisher.

A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.

"In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The . . . journey Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child, challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their family, and themselves"--Provided by publisher.

A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.

The author, a young Vietnamese-American man, shares the story of his solo bicycle journey around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam, and discusses his search for cultural identity in the Vietnam of his childhood.

Gold is a short story by Kim Yu-jeong, first published in 1935. Set in a gold mine during the Japanese colonial period, the narrative delves into the lives of miners who are subjected to strict surveillance to prevent gold theft. To smuggle gold, miners resort to hiding it in their clothing or even swallowing it. The plot centers around a miner named Deok-soon, who feigns a foot injury to distract the supervisor while his accomplice attempts to smuggle gold out of the mine. The story highlights themes of poverty, exploitation, and the desperate measures individuals take to survive under oppressive conditions.

"Three underprivileged young prodigies from across the world with incredible skills in technology and engineering team up to become the heroes the world never knew they could be"--Provided by publisher.

"A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age"--Amazon.com.

Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.

Trình bày những quan điểm về các cung bậc cảm xúc của con người giúp hiểu được cảm xúc của tâm hồn, cảm nhận trái tim của chính mình và của người khác, loại bỏ bớt nỗi buồn, tổn thương và tìm được hạnh phúc trong cuộc sống.

Contradictions follows 25-year-old An Jin-jin as she grapples with life’s paradoxes, torn between her impoverished mother and her wealthy twin aunt, as well as between two very different suitors. Through her journey, the novel deeply explores themes of personal happiness, family conflict, and the contradictions inherent in human existence.

A young girl in Zimbabwe nearly dies during a severe drought, but a UN aid worker saves her with a bowl of porridge. This moment inspires Elizabeth to devote her life to helping others. Guided by the African idea of ubuntu (“I am because we are”), she rises from her village to global stages—eventually becoming a UN Senior Advisor and launching HeForShe, a major movement for gender equality.

"A successful young social media director at a publishing house chronicles her ten years of psychiatric treatment for depression and she fought back against the harmful behaviors that kept her locked in a cycle of self-abuse"--Provided by publisher.

"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake"--Inside front cover.

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.

In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

"Mẹ Làm Gì Có Ước Mơ" là một tác phẩm văn học đầy cảm động và ý nghĩa của tác giả Hạ Mer. Cuốn sách xoay quanh câu chuyện về tình yêu thương gia đình và quá trình tìm kiếm ý nghĩa cuộc sống trong bối cảnh hiện đại đầy áp lực.

"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her career is in danger, she hides her editor beneath her floorboards, and together, as fear and loss close in around them, they cling to literature as the last way of preserving the past"--OCLC.

Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American's immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why she is attracted to girls.

The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of Charles Strickland, a seemingly ordinary London stockbroker who suddenly abandons his comfortable life and family in middle age to pursue his dream of becoming a painter. Inspired by the life of real post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, Strickland rejects societal norms, enduring poverty, illness, and harsh judgment to chase his passion for art.

Princess Bari is a poignant novel that reimagines the traditional Korean myth of Bari, the seventh daughter who embarks on a perilous journey to the underworld to save her ailing parents.

"'Orbital' is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours . . . [It] snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan--have left their lives behind to travel at warp speed as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet"--Provided by publisher.

Rare book expert Hanna Heath discovers a number of tiny artifacts hidden within the binding of a fifteenth-century Hebrew manuscript and begins to unravel the mysteries behind its past.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

Azari's life has been split in two and the halves are as different as lemons and mangoes. She and her mother fled for their lives to Ireland, where they live in a bleak Direct Provision [center]. They long for their own hot, vibrant country. But to go back would mean certain death. When Azari runs she feels strong and free. But Azarai has secrets--and she is still running for her life"--Provided by publisher.

In this origin story for the classic comic book hero the Green Turtle, Hank, the nineteen-year-old son of Chinese immigrants, resists his mother's attempts to make him a superhero at first, but when tragedy strikes he assumes the role of a caped crusader. Aided by one of the four spirits of Chinese mythology, Hank becomes the Green Turtle and sets out to rid Chinatown of the gangsters who have intimidated everyone for years and murdered his father.

A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in this world. The hero, Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.

"Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. . . . Aimee's fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom . . . she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn't match up with the story of how her mom left, at least, not the version she's always heard from her dad. Desperate for answers, Aimee travels to Korea, where she unravels the mystery of her memories, the truth about her mother, and the reason she keeps returning to certain moments in her life"--OCLC.

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

Pictorial book the political and social life under subsidy period in Vietnam.