📚 Reading

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Sean Covey · 1998

Sean Covey adapts his father Stephen Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for teens: from being proactive to sharpening the saw, the seven habits help you take charge of your time, relationships, and future.

Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 2012

Auggie, born with a facial difference, walks into a mainstream school for the first time. Eight narrators take turns showing how kindness, courage, and empathy are learned one day at a time in a fifth-grade classroom. A must-read for growing girls.

The Giver

Lois Lowry · 1993

In a 'perfect' community without color, pain, or choice, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen as the next Receiver of Memory. For the first time he sees red and understands the true meaning of 'release.' A classic introduction to dystopian fiction.

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly · 2016

From World War II to the Apollo era, a segregated group of African American women 'human computers' at NASA's Langley Laboratory calculated rocket trajectories by hand. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson rewrote space history and civil rights history.

A Long Walk to Water

Linda Sue Park · 2010

Two parallel storylines: Sudanese 'Lost Boy' Salva walks for miles through war to survive; years later, 11-year-old Nya walks hours each day to fetch water. Their stories converge on one well—a story of resilience, hope, and the power to change lives.