2021 Summer Reading

Below you will find the information for summer reading. We want all students to stay engaged this summer. All the ELA books are available as a pdf via the links, so you will not even need to go to the book store. As for the shop books, there is still plenty of time.

Thanks and remember to be the some that are reading.....

Mr. Terranova

English

Ninth Grade: The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• Click here for free pdf

Tenth Grade: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

• Click here for free pdf and audio link

Eleventh Grade: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

• Click here for free pdf and audio link

Twelfth Grade: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• Click here for free pdf and audio link

Technical Reading For 10th -12th Graders:

Auto Collision

• Incoming 10th - More Money Please, the Financial Secrets You Never Learned in School, Scott Gamm (author)
• Incoming 11th - My First Car, Matt Stone (author)
• Incoming 12th - My Life and Work, Henry Ford (author)

Auto Technology

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• Grades 10-12: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work ... Matthew Crawford

Carpentry, Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing

• Grades 10-12: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, (Paperback) Alfred Lansing

Cosmetology

• Incoming 10th - Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within, Laura Bowers (Author)
• Incoming 11th - Make a Six Figure Income Doing Hair: How To Do It, Really, Alan Daniels (Author)
• Incoming 12th - It's Not Really About the Hair: The Honest Truth About Life, Love, and the Business of Beauty, Tabetha Coffey (Author)

Culinary Arts

• Grades 10-12: How Italian Cuisine became American as Apple Pie, Tracie McMillan

Dental Assisting

• Grades 10-12: The 57 Bus, Dashkar Slater (author)

DVC and Engineering

• Incoming 10th: The Non-Designer’s Design Book, 2nd Edition Paperback - Sep 26, 2005 (any current addition will do as well), Robin Williams and John Tollett
• Incoming 11th: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times & Bad, Austin Kelon (author)
• Incoming 11th: Freelance Design in Practice, Cathy Fishel

Engineering -

• Grades 10-12:The Martian, Andy Weir

https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025

Health Technologies

• Grades 10-12: Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario

Horticulture

• Incoming 10th: One Base at a Time, David R. Mellor (author)
• Incoming 11th: Lab Girl, Hope Jahren (author)
• Incoming 12th: Wild Trees, Richard Preston (author)

Information Technology

• Incoming Sophomores and Juniors - can select from one of these three books:

  Stories to Solve

  More stories to Solve

  Still More Stories to Solve, George Shannon

Students are to compose/write a creative 21st "problem-solving" short story.

The story can be:

• Written

• Illustrated

• Use any other multimedia format

• Incoming Seniors - Demystifying the Internet of Things Security, free pdf / ebook published under the creative commons license

Marine Services

• Grades 10-12: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work ... Matthew Crawford