Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “War”:

Senior: Daily Life During the French Revolution; The Boer War 1899-1902; The Gulf War 1991; Cold War Capitalism; Russian Revolution of 1917; Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

Middle: The Red Baron: The graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the air war in WWI; Woeful Second World War; The Vietnam War; The Split History of World War I; Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution; D-Day: From the invasion to the liberation of Paris

Junior: In the Mouth of the Wolf; Private Peaceful; The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips; Special Forces; The Little Guide to the Museum of the Armed Forces; Machines and Weaponry of World War I

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Media”:

Senior: Media Bias; Memes to Movements: How the world’s most viral media is changing social protest and power; Mass Media; Politics and Journalism in a Post-truth World; How Things Were…and How They Were Reported; Irresistible: The rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked

Middle: Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism; Cyberbullying; The Information Revolution: Transforming the world through technology; The Dangers of Digital Addiction; How the Internet Changed the World; Posters and Propaganda in Wartime

Junior: Photos Framed: A fresh look at the world’s most memorable photographs; Eat This! How fast-food marketing gets you to buy junk (and how to fight back); Digital Data Security; Cyberbullying; YouTube Channel; Collaborating in the Digital World

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Fashion”:

Senior: Decorated Skin; The World of Tattoo; High Voltage Tattoo; The Fashion Encyclopedia; Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail; Twentieth Century Fashion in Detail

Middle: Living Simply: A teen guide to minimalism; Why’d They Wear That?; A Crime of Fashion; In 1500, Platform Shoes Were Outlawed; The 1950s and 1960s; Costume

Junior: Fashion Academy; The 60s; The 40s & 50s; The 20s & 30s; 1900-20; Phoebe the Fashion Fairy

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Mental Health”:

Senior: Speak; Teens: Cutting and Self-Injury; Facing Panic: Self-help for people with panic attacks; The Art of Being Normal; Am I Normal Yet?; A Beautiful Mind

Middle: Looking After Your Mental Health; The Tween Book; Libby in the Middle; Anorexia and Bulimia: Dangerous eating disorders; OCD: The struggle with obsessions and compulsions; Phobias: When fear becomes irrational

Junior: Your Mind is Like the Sky; The Dog Who Lost His Bark; Milton’s Secret; They Say Blue; After the Fall; The Rough Patch

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Inspirational People”:

Senior: Alexander Hamilton; Becoming; I am Malala; Frank Lloyd Wright; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl; A Long Way Gone

Middle: Helen Keller; Steve Wozniak; Benjamin Franklin; Amelia Earhart; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Sir Edmund Hillary

Junior: Michael Phelps; Simone Biles; Elon Musk; Misty Copeland; Tim Cook; Leonardo DiCaprio

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Money”:

Senior: Fortune Makers: The leaders creating China’s great global companies; Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything; Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy; Cold War Capitalism; A History of the United States in Five Crashes; The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the killer companies of the New Silicon Valley are changing the world

Middle: The Business Book: Big ideas simply explained; Front Desk; Millions; Managing your Money; Poverty and Economic Inequality; Fair Trade and Global Economy

Junior: Billionaire Boy; Double Fudge; Rose Rivers; Treasure Hunters; Money and Trade; Show Me the Money

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “News, Facts, & Information”:

Senior: Politics and Journalism in a Post-Truth World; Historical Revisionism; Mass Media; How Things Were… and How They Were Reported; Media Bias; Memes to Movements

Middle: The Information Revolution: Transforming the World Through Technology; How the Internet Changed the World; Privacy in the Digital World: Who’s Watching Us?; Breakout; The Dangers of Digital Addiction; DIY Make it Happen: YouTube Channel

Junior: The Cities We Live In; The Stuff We Buy; The Food We Eat; The Energy We Use; The Crops We Grow; The Houses We Build

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Justice and Fairness”:

Senior: Capitalism and Moral Responsibility; Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare; Reproductive Rights; Big Pharma and Drug Pricing; Jim Crow Laws; Whistleblowers

Middle: After Gandhi: One hundred years of nonviolent resistance; All’s Faire in Middle School; Reproductive Technology: Indispensable or problematic?; The Native American Struggle; Fair Trade and You; Human Rights

Junior: Animal Research and Testing; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Emma Watson: Actress, Women’s Rights Activist, and Goodwill Ambassador; The Cardboard Kingdom; Understanding Right & Wrong; Animal Rights

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Short Stories”:

Senior: The Lottery and other stories; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and other stories; Metamorphosis and other stories; The Jungle Book; Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction; Diary of a Madman and other stories

Middle: Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy; Other Worlds; Tales of Death and Dementia; Paws and Whiskers; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Skin and other stories

Junior: Look Both Ways; The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and other stories; The Day She Saved the Doctor: Four stories from the Tardis; The White Horse of Zennor and other stories; Short: A book of very short stories; 10 Ten-Minute Stories

Welcome back to school! Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Diversity”:

Senior: All Out: The longer secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages; Punching the Air; Pride; The Art of Being Normal; The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Middle: Island of the Blue Dolphins; New Kid; Drama; The Boy in the Dress; Pet; Prairie Lotus

Junior: I am Every Good Thing; What Makes Us Unique? Our first talk about diversity; The Benefits of Being an Octopus; The Jumbies; The Most Beautiful Thing; The Bridge Home

Download our Summer Reading Recommendations 2021! This list is completely updated with titles in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Have a great summer, and happy reading!

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Shakespeare”:

Senior: Romeo & Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; and New Boy (by Tracy Chevalier)

Middle: Shakespeare: Investigate the Bard’s Influence on Today’s World; As You Like It; The Tempest; Hamlet; Othello; and Shakespeare’s Tales

Junior: Shakespeare for Kids; Antony & Cleopatra; William Shakespeare; Hamlet & Cheese; Tudor Theatre; Mr. William Shakespeare’s Plays