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Outliers

6/14/2015

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Author:  Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition June, 2011 
ISBN#: 978-0316017830
Lexile Measure: 1080L
Classification: Non-fiction

Summary:
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell turns his powers of investigation, observation, and explanation to the question of what makes immensely successful people succeed.  He argues that, contrary to popular belief, that the very successful, the “outliers,” are innately more talented than the rest of us, that the roots of their achievement can be found equally in their birth dates, their heritage, and the small circumstances that, when taken together, place them in positions to seize success denied others.  



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Farewell to Manzanar

6/14/2015

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Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Publisher:  Ember, 1973, ISBN#978-0-307-97607
Lexile Measure: 1040L
Classification: Historical fiction

Summary:
Farewell to Manzanar tells the story of Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven year old girl living with her fisherman father and family on the west coast of the United States during World War II.  In 1942, she and her family were sent to live at the Manzanar internment camp.  This book tells of Jeanne’s reaction, as well as the reactions of her family members, to their forced relocation and efforts to rebuild their lives after they were freed.

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

6/5/2015

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Author:  Jamie Ford
Published: 2009, Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0345505346
Lexile Level:  850L
Classification: Fiction

Summary: 
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet tells the story of Henry Lee, a young American citizen growing up in Seattle in the 1940s.  He befriends Keiko, a young Japanese girl from his school.  Both of them are outcasts because of their races.  After they become friends (and after Japan attacks the U.S. at Pearl Harbor), Keiko and her family are forced to live in an internment camp.  Despite their strong feelings for each other, time and distance separates them until they reconnect much later in life.


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