High School Reads!

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery Lexile:  780 Genre:  Autobiography/Memoir Lynda Blackmon Lowery is just about to turn 15 and she has already been to jail 9 times.  She is involved in the struggle for equal rights in Selma, Montgomery.  She is scared by the people who are fighting back against her, but wants to find the courage within herself to stand up for what she believes in.  Lynda is selected to be the youngest person to march from Selma to Montgomery.  She must convince her father to let her go so that her voice can be heard.

by Marvelyn Brown with Courtney E. Martin Lexile:  950 Genre:  Memoir/Autobiography Marvelyn Brown got the devastating news at the age of 19 that she was HIV positive.  She was a new high school grad, an athlete with plans, and now she felt as if her life was ending.  Marvelyn realizes that she has two choices:  give up and let the disease kill her or fight back by educating herself and others about how to live with HIV.  Marvelyn chose to fight and this book details her struggle to spread the word to all about the realities of life with HIV.

by Elie Wiesel Lexile:  570 Genre:  Memoir/Autobiography Elie Wiesel grew up in Sighet, Transylvania with his parents and younger sister. They were an observant Jewish family with a comfortable life.  That perfect life changed one night in 1944 when the Germans arrived and ordered his family to Auschwitz concentration camp.  This book details his struggle to survive as Elie is forced to confront the absolute worst evil in others.   He tells this terrible story in hopes that this horror never happens again.