The Homewood Flossmoor High School Community is pleased to announce the selections for the 2010-2011 all-school reading initiative, H-F Reads. These four titles will take you on a journey to other times and other places. Please add to the discussion by posting your comments below.
The Hunger Games
May 26, 2010
By Suzanne Collins. In a future North America, totalitarian rulers maintain control through the Hunger Games — a televised fight-to-the-death survival competition pitting teenagers against one another. Sixteen-year-old Katniss’ s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.
The Devil in the White City
May 26, 2010
Erik Larson tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
May 26, 2010
By Geraldine Brooks. This work of historical fiction tells the story of a small mountain village in England and housemaid Anna Frith as they try to survive the terrible plague year of 1666.
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
May 26, 2010
Art Spiegleman’s graphic novel memoir about his father, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and about his own struggle to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself.
