12^th Grade:

Bronx Masquerade.  Nikki Grimes.  When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. (RLD)

No Place Louisiana.  Martin Pousson.  The characters are ensnared by their Louisiana upbringing, their family’s inadequacies and the cultural tentacles that keep them caught in a world of prejudice and unfulfilled aspirations. (RLD)

*Nicole Brown Simpson:  The Private Diary of Life-Interrupted.  Faye Resnick.  Fearing for her life, Faye Resnick, as confidante of O.J., whenever he and his ex-wife fought---went into hiding to write Nicole’s story.  (D/M) (NF)

Interview with the Vampire.  Anne Rice.  Vampire recounts his first two hundred years of life. (S/H)

*America.  E.R. Frank.  By age 15, America has spent years lost in the system.  America is a boy, who thinks to himself, who gets lost easily and is not worth the trouble finding.  But Dr.  B takes time to listen, to explore, and to find---and America’s life begins to change. (RLD)

*Juiced.  Jose Conseco.  All those millions for playing a game and he still comes off as being so bitter towards everyone and everything about baseball in this book. (RLD) (NF)

*Kobe Bryant:  The Game of His Life.  Jeffery Shapiro and Jennifer Stevens.  Tells the story of what really happened on the night of June 30, 2003 in Colorado when basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and a 19 year old hotel employee crossed paths.  (NF/D)

*Bloody Sundays.  Mike Freeman.  Eye opening appraisal of football.  It takes you deep inside the game and reveals the NFL in ways that will surprise even the most avid football fan. (D)

*Life on the Color Line.  Gregory Howard William.  The true story of a white boy who discovered he was black.  (D/NF)

*Coming Out.  Danielle Steel.  Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy career, solid marriage, with twin daughters.  There seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York and chaos erupts all around her. (D)

Son of the Mob:  Hollywod Hustle.  Gordon Korman.  “Fans of Sone of the Mob will love following Vince as he navigates his way through a laugh-out-loud (college) semester (as far from home & his father’s vending machine business as possible) while trying to keep his integrity and his life intact.(D)