Abe Lincoln and Read for a Lifetime Programs Feature Lists of New Books

Looking for some good books to start the second quarter of the school year? Check out the 2024-2025 Abraham Lincoln and the 2024-2025 Read for a Lifetime books. Then sign up to participate in the Abe Lincoln and RFL programs in the BW Library.

2024-2025 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOKS

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Love in English by Maria Andreu

All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach

Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

Skyhunter by Marie Lu

More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed Masoon

We Are All so Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

I’m Glad my Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Victory. Stand! Raising my Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Anyabwile Dawud, and Derrick Barnes

Chaos Theory by Nic Stone

This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg

2024-2025 READ FOR A LIFETIME BOOKS

Accountable by Dashka Slater

All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Baby & Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Divine Rivals: A Novel by Rebecca Ross

Four for the Road by K.J. Reilly

Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Golden Arm by Carl Dueker

Here to Stay by Sara Farizan

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin

In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree

My Lady Jane by Cyndia Hand, Brodie Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Rez Ball by Byron Graves

Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim

Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me about Life, Death, and Hope by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Loop by Ben Oliver

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

What the River Knows: Secrets of the Nile by Isabel Ibanez

Students Read over 750,000 Pages in First Quarter

At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the BW English Department challenged the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes to each read ONE MILLION PAGES of pleasure reading during this school year.

The SENIOR CLASS finished the first quarter with 172,085 pages of pleasure reading.  That’s an average of 439 pages per senior.  These senior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Reidelberger, third hour – 1236 pages per student

Mr. Lodle, second hour – 885 pages per student

Mrs. Lewis, third hour – 812 pages per student

Ms. Schaab, fifth hour – 622 pages per student

Mrs. Story, third hour – 534 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, fifth hour – 500 pages per student

Mr. Armknecht, seventh hour – 494 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, sixth hour – 471 pages per student

Mr. Lodle, first hour – 470 pages per student

The JUNIOR CLASS finished the first quarter with 232,400 pages of pleasure reading.  That’s an average of 531 pages per junior.  These junior classes read the most pages per student:

Mr. Garland, fifth hour – 1835 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, third hour – 973 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, second hour – 966 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, fourth hour – 673 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, third hour – 653 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, seventh hour – 640 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, second hour – 621 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, first hour – 531 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, sixth hour – 529 pages per student

The SOPHOMORE CLASS finished the first quarter with 216,010 pages of pleasure reading.  That’s an average of 457 pages per sophomore.  These sophomore classes read the most pages per student:

Mrs. Lewis, firth hour – 866 pages per student

Mrs. Schlich, fifth hour – 821 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, third hour – 780 pages per student

Ms. Schlich, sixth hour – 745 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, seventh hour – 611 pages per student

Ms. Hodson, fifth hour – 608 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, second hour – 594 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, first hour – 580 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger, fourth hour – 531 pages per student

Mr. Armknecht, first hour – 521 pages per student

The FRESHMAN CLASS finished the first quarter with 152,294 pages of pleasure reading.  That’s an average of 316 pages per freshman.  These freshman classes read the most pages per student:

Mrs. Story, fourth hour – 638 pages per student

Ms. Mims, sixth hour – 527 pages per student

Ms. Mims, fifth hour – 517 pages per student

Ms. Schaefer, first hour – 480 pages per student

Ms. Mims, third hour – 446 pages per student

Mrs. Short, sixth hour – 441 pages per student

Ms. Guebert, first hour – 381 pages per student

Ms. Rodgers, second hour – 309 pages per student

Mrs. Short, seventh hour – 308 pages per student

At the end of the first quarter, the juniors are in the lead, with the sophomores close behind.  Visit the library, find some good books, and keep reading!