Introducing Cindy Dell of the Special Education Department and her favorite book, Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran. She thought Lucky Boy was an “amazing story of perseverance, struggle, and devotion.”
Synopsis on Goodreads.com:
“A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant…But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life…”
“Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef… the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant, this desire will test her marriage, it will test her sanity, and it will set Kavya and her husband, Rishi, on a collision course with Soli, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care…”
Find out more about Lucky Boy on Goodreads here.
Meet Mrs. Rayome of the Special Education Department whose best book is The Power of One by Bryce Courtney. She says, “It is a powerful story about finding the strength to survive and to succeed.”
Rina, LFHS Class of 2021, shared the best book, True Blue by David Baldacci. If you haven’t read anything by David Baldacci yet, you’re missing out!
With No Shave November under way, and Halloween already a memory, here’s a list of five titles about characters in some “hairy” situations.
Makani Young thought she’d left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She’s found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn’t far behind. Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair…” 
Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family’s good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever’s survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars—they are believed to have mysterious and powerful gifts, and though their identities remain secret, they have come to be called the Young Elites.”
“Go on the adventure of a lifetime with a teen and his family after they are selected to colonize Mars in this thrilling new novel from multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry…” Read more GR review 
Mr. Scott of the English Department says his best book, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, “…is the most visceral, straight-to-the-heart compilation of war stories you will find anywhere. It covers all themes, including hope, forgiveness, friendship, and redemption while bleeding virtues of humanity throughout its content.”
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