Book Recommendations for 2024

Recommendations for

 Different Stages

Reason for Recommendation: This book is a great discussion starter on the topic of diversity. The text is rhyming, with repetitive phrasing. The illustrations are bright and colorful.

Reason for Recommendation: Students love reading both the novels and the graphic novels of this high interest series.

Reason for Recommendation: This is a great introduction to historical fiction for younger readers. It encourages girls to explore STEAM.

推荐语：幽默中藏着温馨，冷峻中透着真情。呜哩哇啦的故事，全都是爱的故事。

Within humor lies warmth, and through the austere, sincerity shines. The tales of woo-ree-wa-la, they’re all stories of love.

推荐语：这是一个奇幻与现实交错的故事，一部启发勇气与坚持的读物。本书以陕北毛乌素地区种树治沙为题材，描写了治沙模范们在困难面前不低头、誓把沙地变绿洲，努力创造新时代中国防沙治沙新奇迹的故事。

The book focuses on the topic of afforestation and desertification control in the Mao Wusu region of Northern Shanxi, depicting the story of sand control models who refuse to yield in the face of hardships, vowing to turn sandy lands into oases.

Reason for Recommendation: This engaging book is a student favorite because Ruta Septys’ masterful use of details draws them into the complex plot. Students love the main character and how Septys develops the relationships and overwhelming conficts in his world. All of her books fly off the shelves.

推荐理由：这本引人入胜的书是学生们的最爱，因为Ruta Septys精湛的细节运用将他们带入复杂的情节中。学生们喜欢主人公以及Septys如何发展他的世界中的关系和压倒性的冲突。她的所有书都销售一空。

Reason for Recommendation: This book, first in a series of four, is a creepy spell-binding adventure. Katherine Arden skillfully creates a vivid sense of atmosphere. Once students have read this volume, they pick up the next volume.

推荐理由：这本是四部系列中的第一部，是一次令人毛骨悚然的冒险。Katherine Arden巧妙地营造了生动的氛围。一旦学生读完这一卷，他们就会拿起下一卷。

Reason for Recommendation: This Middle Grade fiction story grabs students with its tale about fitting in and creating your own voice. The pages of vines interspersed in the novel show how the spunky female protagonist connects with both halves of her identity.  

推荐理由：这部中学年龄层小说通过其关于融入和发现自己声音的故事吸引学生。小说中穿插的藤蔓页展示了这个活泼的女主人公如何与她的身份的两个方面联系在一起。

推荐语：以独特的科幻设定和深刻的社会洞察，展现了未来都市中人们的生存状态与情感纠葛，是一部引人深思的佳作。

With a unique sci-fi setting and profound social insights, it portrays the state of survival and emotional entanglements of people in a future urban setting, making it a thought-provoking masterpiece.

推荐语：巧妙地将美食与文学相结合，带领读者在品味文字的同时，也领略到食物背后的文化韵味和人生百态。

Ingeniously combining culinary delights with literature, it guides readers to savor the nuances of culture and the vicissitudes of life behind the food while indulging in the taste of the words.

Reason for Recommendation: Students are drawn into the plight of refugees in war torn Syria through this book, written as spoken word poetry. Abawi portrays a vivid picture of the lack of control experienced by refugees.

推荐理由：学生通过这本以口述诗为形式的书被吸引到战乱叙利亚难民的困境中。Abawi生动地描绘了难民所经历的无法掌控的画面。

Reason for Recommendation: This intricate and imaginative Science Fiction novel, translated from Chinese, integrates complex scientific topics without sacrificing story elements and characterization.

推荐理由：这部细腻而富有想象力的科幻小说是从中文翻译而来，巧妙地整合了复杂的科学主题，而又不牺牲故事元素和人物刻画。

Reason for Recommendation: This one-of-a-kind heroine with cunning, character, and grit is conveyed through an intricate and adreline-charged plot.

推荐理由：这个独一无二的女主人公通过一个错综复杂且充满肾上腺素的情节传达出她的狡诈、性格和毅力。

这是以色列新锐历史学家尤瓦尔·赫拉利的一部重磅作品。从十万年前有生命迹象开始到21世纪资本、科技交织的人类发展史。十万年前，地球上至少有六个人种，为何今天却只剩下了我们自己？为何我们能登上生物链的顶端，最终成为地球的主宰？人类创建的帝国为何一个个衰亡又兴起？你将在这部作品中找到对这些问题的思考。

This is a groundbreaking work by the emerging Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. It traces the history of human development, intertwined with capital and technology, from signs of life 100,000 years ago to the 21st century. A hundred thousand years ago, there were at least six human species on Earth, so why is it that only we remain today? Why were we able to reach the top of the food chain and ultimately become the dominators of the planet? Why have the empires created by humans risen and fallen one after another? You will find answers on these questions in this work.

推荐语：这本书是中国美学的经典之作，凝聚了作者李泽厚先生多年研究。他把中国人古往今来对美的感觉玲珑剔透地展现在大家眼前，如斯感性，如斯亲切。

This book is a classic work of Chinese aesthetics, encapsulating years of research by Mr. Li Zehou. He vividly presents the Chinese people’s perception of beauty through the ages before us, with such sensibility and warmth.