6 Things About BB&N:
Our Faculty Recommend Some Summer Reading
Chip Rollinson, Upper School math teacher: Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut is one of my favorites that
I’ve read a bunch of times. The chapters are never ... more than three pages which makes for an easy
read between naps on the beach, and the thought of “ice-nine” (a fictional material that figures prominently in the book) makes you appreciate the summer heat.
Betsy Canaday, Middle School English teacher: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, by Don Robertson Meet Morris Bird III, the intrepid nine-year-old who grabs a wagon (and his little sister) and embarks on an odyssey across Cleveland to visit his best friend. When the giant gas tank explodes (a real event), Morris really shows what he’s got. It’s a great adventure told in the voice of the totally appealing, young protagonist.
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Jack Denny-Brown, former Lower School grade five teacher and faculty emeritus: Many overlooked classics
been catching up on all the reading I should have ... I’ve done long ago: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Once and
Future King, Riders of the Purple Sage, Mutiny on the Bounty, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, 1984, and Brave New World. It’s been fun for me, but not for people looking for a book that will tell them something about the here and now. I guess I get enough of that every night on the evening news!
Carolina Gomez-Kramer, Lower School Spanish teacher: : I, Rigoberta Menchú, by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray
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I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in social issues and the reality of many indigenous peoples in Latin America. In this biography, Rigoberta voices the oppression of indigenous peoples and their fight to have equal rights. At a young age, she was forced to work like an adult. She also saw how her family was torn apart due to violence in Guatemala and had a brother who died of starvation.
Gus Means, Middle School math teacher: One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson Lindberg, and Al Capone captured headlines, and the first ... Charles true “talking picture” was filmed, Bryson does a great job of Tackling an historic summer in which icons such as Babe Ruth,
capturing the magnitude and impact of these three months in their overall place in American history. A lot can be accomplished in just one season off from school.
Karen Wyon, assistant to the Upper School director: The Martian, by Andy Weir Originally self-published, this smart, funny, and enlightening account of a Mars expedition gone awry recounts the various efforts to retrieve the “Martian” stranded on the red planet.
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