Daniel Hand Freshmen Lit & Writing List (2025)

Books from DHHS Freshmen summer reading list in LION
 

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1. Accountable: the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed

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Author:
Slater, Dashka
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"When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created...

2. A child called "it": one child's courage to survive

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Author:
Pelzer, David J.
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3. The Dozier School for Boys: forensics, survivors, and a painful past

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Author:
Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1958-
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TNF 365.9 MURRAY

4. Flowers in the gutter: the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis

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Author:
Gaddy, Kristina R.
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"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--

5. Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

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Author:
Harmon, Mark, 1951-
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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.

6. Paradise found: a high school football team's rise from the ashes

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Plaschke, Bill
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Relates the devastating impact of the 2018 Camp Fire on the town of Paradise, California, and the efforts to rebuild the town's high school football team, describing how the revival of the football program helped to renew the spirit of the entire town. November 8, 2018. The Camp Fire ravaged the town of Paradise, California, killing 86 people; nearly every building and home in the town was reduced to ashes. The Paradise High football team had long...

7. Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

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Author:
Cain, Susan
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"At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts - Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak-- that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so....