<p>Let's start a new list of required summer reading for the incoming class of 2015</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College–The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College, Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Let’s go alphabetical!</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College, Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>I actually didn’t know a lot about the title I just posted so I looked it up.
From Booklist:
<em>Starred Review</em> In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns Hopkins University when he read a newspaper article about another Wes Moore who was on his way to prison. It turned out that the two of them had much in common, both young black men raised in inner-city neighborhoods by single mothers. Stunned by the similarities in their names and backgrounds and the differences in their ultimate fates, the author eventually contacted the other Wes Moore and began a long relationship. Moore visited his namesake in prison; he was serving a life sentence, convicted for his role in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of an off-duty policeman. Growing up, both men were subject to the pitfalls of urban youth: racism, rebellion, violence, drug use, and dealing. The author examines eight years in the lives of both Wes Moores to explore the factors and choices that led one to a Rhodes scholarship, military service, and a White House fellowship, and the other to drug dealing, prison, and eventual conversion to the Muslim faith, with both sharing a gritty sense of realism about their pasts. Moore ends this haunting look at two lives with a call to action and a detailed resource guide.</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enriques Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Ok, adding Wofford and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Adding Cornell:</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Emerson College- The Constitution and Declaration of Independence of America</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha
mathmomvt is offline</p>
<p>I was hoping this thread would be about freshmen in HIGH SCHOOL as a friend was complaining that her 9th gr. D has a choice of short stories by Alice Walker. Titles? “Porn” “The Abortion” and a couple of others. One about S/M. Sigh.</p>
<p>Now back to your nice discussion…</p>
<p>Cornell University - Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Florida State University The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Illinois Wesleyan University- “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri</p>
<p>Marquette University – “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore</p>
<p>Miami University (OH) - “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer</p>
<p>Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario</p>
<p>NC State - “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>Reed College - The Odyssey</p>
<p>Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot</p>
<p>University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.</p>
<p>University of Missouri – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake</p>
<p>Vanderbilt–The Good Life, by Peter Gomes</p>
<p>Whitman College - “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman</p>
<p>Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha</p>
<p>Great thread!</p>