DPS Library Newsletter December 2021

DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL

Jason Reynolds’s novel in verse, Long Way Down, is the story of 15- year-old Will’s 60 second elevator ride during which he contemplates whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother, Shawn. While on the elevator, Will is visited by seven ghosts who knew his brother, and they reveal truths Will needs to know. (fiction) LONGWAY DOWN BY JASON REYNOLDS

A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, Artie, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father’s story, and with history itself. (graphic novel) MAUS BY ART SPIELGELMAN

UNBROKEN BY LAURENHILLENBRAND A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down. (non fiction)

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