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Classic Summer Reads For 12th Graders
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Huxley´s vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World — a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class. Emma Jane…
Classic Summer Reads For 10th Graders
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged—petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral—while a painting of…
Classic Summer Reads For 9th Graders
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly…
6-8th Grade Summer Reading (Part 2)
Counting By 7s Holly Goldberg Sloan In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it…
6-8th Grade Summer Reading (Part 1)
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson, one of today’s finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the…
Philadelphia Virtual Academy Weekly Update July 1st
Happy almost-fourth-of-July Philly Virtual Pythons! Summer school started this week. But don’t worry, it’s not too late to sign up. Asset Return: If you’re holding onto any of those assets we need them back. They’re late, but we’ll forgive you if you just drop them off any time within business hours before Thursday. We’re waiting…
Free Library of Philadelphia Introduction
Hello Philly Virtual Pythons, Last week on the PVA weekly update we asked you to read a book. In case you’re stumped about how to get started on that summer reading list, the School District of Philadelphia has provided a list of good ones here. I’m definitely going to be reading this one: Bartlett, Allison…