Summer Reading

Non-Fiction

Secrets of a Civil War submarine : solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley (#27003Q4)

by Walker, Sally M.

Tells the story of the H. L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine that in 1864 became the first to ever sink an enemy ship. It lay missing on the ocean floor for more than a century.

Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance

by Armstrong, Jennifer

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey to reach inhabited land.

We Beat The Street: How A Friendship Pact Helped us Succeed

By Sampson Davis.

Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved.