Pritzker Traubert家庭高中图书馆 2024年夏季阅读清单

Pritzker Traubert Family High School Library Summer 2024 Reading List

FICTION 小说/非纪实小说

Chambers, Becky. A Closed and Common Orbit,

《封闭而共同的轨道》2016

Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.

Lovelace曾经只是一艘飞船的人工智能。在系统完全关闭并重新启动后，她醒来时发现自己拥有了一个新身体，但她对之前发生的事毫无记忆。当Lovelace学会了如何应对宇宙并发现自己是谁时，她与热情的工程师Pepper成为了朋友，Pepper决心帮助她学习和成长。

Cisneros, Sandra. Martita, I Remember You

《Martita，我记得你》2021

An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find a romanticized Paris community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a network of artists simply trying to find work, make rent, and make the city home. Years later, when a letter from her friend Martita resurfaces, Corina finds herself older and with enough distance to articulate her time in Paris.

这是一个迷人的故事，讲述了一位作家回忆她在巴黎的短暂时光，以及她对友谊、人际关系和年轻时自己的反思。Corina （小名 Puffina）是一位年轻的作家，希望找到一个浪漫的巴黎社区，但当她的钱比预期的更早用完时，她找到了一群艺术家们，他们只是想找工作、付房租，让这座城市成为家。多年后，当她的朋友Martita的一封信再次浮出水面时，Corina发现自己年纪大了，有足够的阅见来表达她在巴黎的时光。

Colbert, Brandy. The Blackwoods,

《布莱克伍德一家》2023.

Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.

从多个角度讲述，当他们的曾祖母、传奇女演员Blossom Blackwood去世，家庭秘密浮出水面时，Ardith和Hollis Blackwood的生活被颠覆了。

Cole, Kamilah. So Let Them Burn,

《所以，让他们燃烧吧》2024.

After her sister Elara forms an unbreakable bond with an enemy dragon, seventeen-year-old Faron, who once wielded the magic of the gods to save her island from those same dragon-riding colonizers, must find a way to save her sister and the fate of their world in the face of impossible odds.

在Faron的妹妹Elara与敌人的龙结成牢不可破的纽带后，十七岁的Faron曾经运用众神的魔法从那些骑龙殖民者手中拯救她的岛屿。面对不可能的困难，她必须在不可能的困难面前找到一种方法来拯救她的妹妹和他们世界的命运。

De la Cruz, Melissa. The Encanto’s Daughter,

《恩坎托的女儿》2024.

Seventeen-year-old MJ Robertson-Rodriguez leaves the human world for Biringan to rule the land of the mythical Encantos following the death of her estranged father, King Vivencio.

17岁的MJ Robertson Rodriguez在她疏远的父亲Vivencio国王去世后离开人类世界后，前往Biringan统治的神密的Encantos之地。

Evans, Desiree S. and Saraciea J. Fennell, editors.

The Black Girl Survives in This One,

《黑人女孩在这件事中幸存》2024.

A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.

本书收录了15个恐怖故事，围绕黑人女孩展开，她们与人类和超自然的怪物战斗，直面死亡，并幸存下来。

Gaiman, Neil. American Gods,

《美国众神》 2001.*

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him a job, and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought - and the prize is the very soul of America. An inspired combination of mythology, adventure, and illusion, this is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien.

出狱后，Shadow发现他的世界发生了翻天覆地的变化。他的妻子被杀了；一个陌生人给他提供了一份工作，而 Shadow一无所有，便接受了这份工作。但一场风暴即将来临。在日常生活平静的表面之下，一场战争正在进行——而这场战争的奖品就是美国的灵魂。这是一场神话、冒险和幻想巧妙结合，也是一场深入神话的黑暗而千变万化的旅程，穿梭在一个既诡异熟悉又完全陌生的美国。

Gibney, Shannon. The Girl I Am, Was,

and Never Will Be,

《我现在、曾经和永远不会成为的女孩》2023*.

Two girls on different timelines--each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee--find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, author Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experience.

两个处于不同时间线上的女孩——她们都被跨种族的混血黑人收养——发现她们的生活被一个神秘的门户连接起来。这本书部分是回忆录，部分是推理小说，作者 Gibney通过自己的收养经历审视了被收养经历的荒谬之处。

Gomera-Tavarez, Camille. The Girl, the Ring, &

the Baseball Bat, 《女孩、戒指和棒球棒》2024.

Armed with talismans, including an enchanted jacket that gets people to do anything, a baseball bat that fixes anything it breaks and a manifestation stone that makes anyone fall in love, Rosie, her older sister Caro, and Zeke find their lives intertwined in magical and hilarious ways.

Rosie, 她的姐姐Caro,和Zeke带着护身符，包括一件能让人做任何事的魔法夹克、一根能修复任何破损东西的棒球棒和一块能让任何人坠入爱河的显现石，他们的生活以神奇而有趣的方式交织在一起。

Gong, Chloe. Immortal Longings, 《不朽的渴望》2023.*

In the first of a trilogy, Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family’s monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover as she competes in this Hunger-Games-like fantasy epic.

在三部曲的第一部中，Calla Tuoleimi公主计划推翻家族的君主制，但在这部类似饥饿游戏的奇幻史诗中，她必须在王国和新情人之间做出选择。