Samohi Readers Recommend...
MEChA:
Song of the Hummingbird, Graciela Limon
Chicano, Richard Vasquez
Rain of Gold, Victor Villaseñor
Pocho, José Antonio Villareal
Locas, Yxta Maya Murray
Gods Go Begging, Alfredo Vea
PenPusher (Samohi Literary Magazine Club):
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, Sonya Sones
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
The Art Department:
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
The Harlem Renaissance, Steven Watson
Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Lucy Lippard
Women Artists: An Illustrated History, Nancy Heller
The German Program:
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Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
Beneath the Wheel, Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
College Career Center:
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The College Admissions Mystique, Bill Mayer
The College Finder, Steven Antonoff
College Match, Steven R. Antonoff and Marie Friedemann
Don’t Miss Out, Anna and Rober Leider
Boys' Water Polo:
- Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Pet Sematary, Stephen King
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
Santa Monica Public Library:
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Group of One, Rachna Gilmore
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Typical American, Gish Jen
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, Walter Dean Myers
Sabriel, Garth Nix
The Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian
Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger
Dutton's Bookstore:
Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
A Small Death in Lisbon, Robert Wilson
Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night, Thisbe NIssen
Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
Girls' Softball:
The Tribes of Palos Verdes, Joy Nicholson
Maus & Maus II, Art Spiegelman
BSU (Black Student Union):
Mama and Disappearing Acts, by Terry McMillan
Family and The Wake of the Wind, by J. California Cooper
The Haunting of Hip Hop, by Bertice Berry
Blessings and Caught Up in the Rapture, by Sheneska Jackson
Samohi "Mortensen" Library Recommends the American Library Association's "Best Books for Young Adults, 2002:"
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
The Rag and Bone Shop, by Robert Cormier
Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
Breathing Underwater, by Alex Flinn
Damage, by A.M. Jenkins
Zazoo, by Richard Mosher
The Land, by Mildred Taylor
Every Time a Rainbow Dies, by Rita Williams-Garcia
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Libros en espanol:
El llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
La balada de Gregorio Cortez, Américo Paredes
Doce cuentos peregrinos, Gabriel García Márquez
Gringo viejo, Carlos Fuentes
La Cuentista, (traditional tales), Teresa Pijoan (bilingual)
Yearbook Staff:
A Persian Requiem, Simin Daneshvar
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Children's Book World:
If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
True Adventures of Avenger, Norma Howe
The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy