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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes, I would highly recommend
</span><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. It provides some interesting
local history of Ottawa, Illinois (not far from Chicago) that still affects residents today</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Other
books that my students enjoy are the following</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">: </span></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Any books by Ann Rule. She is an American true crime author. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of the Rocky
Flats</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Kristen Iversen </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">: </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
author tells the story of growing up near Rocky Flats, a secret </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">nuclear</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> weapons
plant working with plutonium in </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">weapons</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and
investigates accidents and government concealed toxic and radioactive waste released by the plant. This book was suspenseful and what is really interesting is, this area is now a National Wildlife Refuge despite it being contaminated. When I have visited
Denver, I have asked residents what they know about this park and they are unaware of it's history! It is a very informative book and it is well-written.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Death and Life of the Great Lakes</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
by Dan Egan (It has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><span id="freeText5470581669897073686" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Great Lakes </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under
threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Death and
Life of the Great Lakes</span></u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending
the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">
This book is very-well written. In addition to providing information about the ecological changes occurring in</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> the Great Lakes, but it tell an interesting historical
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">perspective of the canal systems near Chicago.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">The
Worst Hard Time,</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> by Timothy Egan (National Book Award Winner and on R</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">ead
F</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">or A Lifetime Booklist) - </span><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
is another well-written book and a thrilling apocalyptic story</span><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">he
dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force
of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly
capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives h</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">e
opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). </span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Silent
Spring</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">, by Rachel Carson - </span></span></span></span></font><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
is a classic. It has not lost its validity. It has an important global message still today, 54 years after publication. </span><span id="freeText13513512109603337128" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes
in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one
of the landmark books of the twentieth century.</span><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<div>I'd consider <i>The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women </i>
by Kate Moore. It's amazing and even has an Illinois connection. On the 2019 Lincoln list too.</div>
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the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious
circumstances.<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:start; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll
climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named
Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they
began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history."</span></div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Any suggestions for our AP Language Summer reading title? The teacher wants a non-fiction high interest title, potentially true-crime but not necessarily. She was looking
at <i>Girls of Murder City</i> but I haven’t read that and can’t comment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Past books that didn’t go over well have been:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A Long Way Gone<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Outliers<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In True Blood<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Into the Wild<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Devil in the White City</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> is used by another class so that was rejected by administration.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What’s been a hit with your students?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gail Meyer, Librarian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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