Freshman 1st Semester Reading List

* - In the GHHS Library

Washington State

Fiction

Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Ambrose, Stephen E. This Vast Land

Harris, Jana. Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? : Voices of Pioneer Women: Poems

*Holm, Jennifer L. Boston Jane: an Adventure

*Holm, Jennifer L. Boston Jane: Wilderness Days

*O'Dell, Scott. Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

Platt, Randall Beth. The Likes of Me

*Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei Daughter

*Thesman, Jean. Rachel Chance

Non-Fiction

Bragg, L. E. (Lynn E.). More than Petticoats: Remarkable Washington Women

*Chatters, James C. Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans

Fisher, Richard V. (Richard Virgil). Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist

*Kirk, Ruth. Sunrise to Paradise: the Story of Mount Rainier National Park

*Kirk, Ruth. The Olympic Rain Forest: an Ecological Web

Kochert, Annie. Lineage: a Trail of Shaman

Lewis, Meriwether. The Essential Lewis and Clark

Sullivan, Robert. A Whale Hunt

Middle East

Fiction

*Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.

Temple, Frances. The Beduins' Gazelle.

*The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East.

Non-Fiction

Clapp, Nicholas. Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen.

Craig, Steve. Sports and Games of the Ancients.

El-Nawawy, Mohammed. Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East.

Idinopulos, Thomas A. Weathered by Miracles: a History of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti.

*The Middle East: Opposing Viewpoints.

Biography:

Miller, Anita. Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician

Africa

Fiction:

*Kessler, Christina. Our Secret, Siri Aang.

Kurtz, Jane. Jakarta Missing.

*Naidoo, Beverley. Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.

Quintana, Anton. The Baboon King.

*Zephaniah, Benjamin. Refugee Boy

Non-Fiction:

*Canesso, Claudia. South Africa.

*Finlayson, Reggie. Nelson Mandela.

Lee, Jeanne. Jam! : The Story of Jazz Music.

Lugira, Aloysius Muzzanganda. African Religion.

Macht, Norman L. The History of Slavery.

*Powers, William. Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge.

*Tayler, Jeffrey. Angry Wing: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel

Africa: Opposing Viewpoints

No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a new South Africa

Peoples of West Africa

Biography & Autobiography:

Pratt, Paula Bryant. Jane Goodall.

*Dahl, Roald. Going Solo

*Lekutan, Joseph Lemasolai. Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

*Mandela, Nelson. Mandela: an Illustrated Autobiography.