Senior High Summer Book Club
Completed 8th - 12th Grades
*Completed 8th graders may choose to participate in the Middler Book Club or the Senior High Book Club.
Senior Highs will meet three Sundays at 11a in the Youth Suite.
- May 18: Pick up book and learn a little about it.
- June 22: Read through Chapter 65.
- July 13: Finish the book.
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Common Sense Media: Parents need to know that The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon won a 2017 Michael J. Printz Honor and was a 2016 National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. The romantic coming-of-age story follows two high school seniors - Jamaican American Natasha and Korean American Daniel - from the day they meet on a crowded New York City street and shows how they go on to change each other's lives. There is occasional strong language ("s--t," "f--k," "a--hole") and some passionate (in one case horizontal) making out. The book contains many educational and historical lessons about everything from immigration law to time-travel paradoxes to the reasons so many African-American hair-supply stores are owned by Koreans. The story is also one of the few interracial young-adult romances to feature two people of color, showing that love can and does bloom across differences.
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