Leadership Academy's Reading List Fiction & NOnfiction
Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
A psychiatrist examines commonly held notion of mental health disorders and their potentials for "normalcy" by clarifying misconceptions.
The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent People Recall Their Mentors
A collection of over seventy-five essays of famous people detailing how people made a different in their lives through advice, guidance, and example.
Nelson Mandela: An Authorized Biography
A biography of the South African leader in graphic novel format.
Students On Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
John A. Stokes, a leader of the student strike at RR Morton High School in 1951, describes the conditions while fighting against segregation.
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
A brief chronological verse biography of boxer, Muhammad Ali.
I Got This: How I Changed and Lost What Weighed Me Down
Oscar winner, actor, and singer Jennifer Hudson describes her rise from American Idol to Dreamgirls and explains how she lost over eighty pounds and gives tips for weight loss and recipes.
Left For Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Recalling the sinking of the USS Indianapolis at the end of WWII, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, a young boy helps set the record straight fifty-five years later.
Marcelo In The Real World
Marcelo is a high-functioning autistic student who faces injustice but also romance when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Peeled
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
Keeping Corner
In India in the 1940s, Lella's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Gandhi's social and political reforms.
The Less-Dead
Sixteen year old Noah, whose father is the host of a popular evangelical Christian radio program, believes that the person who has been killing gay teenagers in the Texas foster care system, is a regular caller on his dad's show.
Nectar In A Sieve
Tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.
Recruited
Kadeem is thrilled when he is approached by a recruiter for Teller College's football team, but when he learns the school is breaking NCAA rules, Kadeem must decide if he wants to help officials stop the dishonest practices.
Never Fall Down
Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge.
The Things They Carried
Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.