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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
In this semi-biographical, coming-of-age story, told in first-person narrative, a Native-American teen, Arnold Spirit Jr. (referred to as “Junior” throughout the book) details his experience attending an all-white public high school in the…
Forever...
This book explores the complexities of relationships and teenage sexuality through Katherine's and Michael's relationship. The two high school students grow in their relationship with one another, then, after having sex together for the first time…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This book follows an introverted, high school freshman, Charlie, who befriends two seniors, Patrick and Sam, and starts to experiment with alcohol, drugs, and smoking. As he manages his new social life and his feelings towards Sam, Patrick's…
The Chocolate War
This book is narrated from alternating third-person perspectives and is set at Trinity School, a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school.. The two most common voices are those of Jerry Renault, a solitary first-year and protagonist of the story,…
A Wrinkle in Time
This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…
Fallen Angels
When seventeen year old Richie Perry realizes he cannot afford to go to college he joins the army. He leaves the US for Vietnam with idealized ideas of war, which are soon shattered upon arrival. He witnesses increasing levels of destruction and…
Bridge to Terabithia
This book follows the friendship of Jess and Leslie, eleven year-old boy and girl living in the rural south. To escape the hardships of family and school life and the realities of poverty, Jess and Leslie develop a fantasy world in the woods near…
A Day no Pigs would Die
This coming-of-age story is set in 1920s rural Vermont, and focuses on Robert, a teenage boy who is becoming closer with his father, who is a butcher who slaughters hogs. Robert is given a pet pig, Pinky, from his neighbours after helping their cow…
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials: Book 1)
The first of a trilogy, this book follows Lyra Belacqua, an orphan who lives with the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College. One day her uncle, Lord Asriel, visits and tells her of mystery and danger in the far North. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs.…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.