The Challenge: Read 20 engaging, inspiring, award-winning, best-selling, timely, narrative non-fiction books
over 4 years (outside of class) to get MORE out of high school and MORE out of life.
Titles
Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard
ISBN: 9780718098575
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Call Number: B Strayed
ISBN: 9780307592736
Publication Date: 2012-03-20
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Call Number: 363.7 Thu
ISBN: 9780143133568
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Call Number: 551.44 Mac
ISBN: 9780393242140
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Normal by Magdalena M. Newman; Nathaniel Newman; Neal Swaab (Illustrator)
Call Number: 920 New
ISBN: 9781328631831
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Craig and Fred by Craig Grossi
Call Number: 636.7 Gro
ISBN: 9780062693396
Publication Date: 2018-11-27
God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau; Michael Sweeney
Call Number: B Dau
ISBN: 9781426201141
Publication Date: 2007-01-16
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Call Number: 302.3 Jun
ISBN: 9781455566389
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin (Illustrator)
Call Number: 305.8 Kuk
ISBN: 9780763678845
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Crossing the Line by Kareem Rosser
Call Number: B ROSSER
ISBN: 9781250270863
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Call Number: B JAOUAD
ISBN: 9780399588587
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
Call Number: 940.53 Bat
ISBN: 9780062874214
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Losing Eden by Lucy Jones
Call Number: 304.2 Jon
ISBN: 9781524749323
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Call Number: B Taylor
ISBN: 9780452295544
Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Race of the Century: the Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus) by Neal Bascomb
Call Number: 796.42 BAS
ISBN: 9781338628463
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Inaugural Ballers by Andrew Maraniss
Call Number: B Maraniss
ISBN: 9780593351246
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Make the Most of It by Barry H. Corey; Russell Moore (Foreword by)
Call Number: 378,1 COR
ISBN: 9781496436580
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
The Best Land under Heaven by Michael Wallis
Call Number: 978 Wal
ISBN: 9780871407696
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
Call Number: B Ackerman
ISBN: 9780393341744
Publication Date: 2012-04-02
How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill
Call Number: 591.59 MUS
ISBN: 9781538739112
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Call Number: B Tot
ISBN: 9781982188085
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
The Hard Parts by Oksana Masters; Cassidy Randall (Contribution by)
Call Number: B Mas
ISBN: 9781982185503
Publication Date: 2023-02-21
Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
Call Number: B Cooper
ISBN: 9780593242384
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
A Future We Can Love by Susan Bauer-Wu (Contribution by); Stephanie Higgs (Contribution by)
Call Number: 294.3 Wu
ISBN: 9781645471400
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya
Call Number: B SEMENYA
ISBN: 9781324035770
Publication Date: 2023-10-31
Titles
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
ISBN: 9780307279187
Publication Date: 2011-03-29
26 Marathons by Meb Keflezighi; Scott Douglas
ISBN: 9781635652888
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel; Patrick Modiano (Preface by)
Call Number: 940.53 Fre
ISBN: 9781501199844
Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Call Number: B Miller
ISBN: 9780735223707
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Broken Places and Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: 155.2 Oko
ISBN: 9781501195471
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
Dear America: Young Readers' Edition by Jose Antonio Vargas
Call Number: 364.1 Var
ISBN: 9780062914590
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston; Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by); Alice Walker (Foreword by)
Call Number: 306.3 Hur
ISBN: 9780062748201
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Empty by Susan Burton
Call Number: B Burton
ISBN: 9780812992847
Publication Date: 2020-06-23
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Call Number: B OBAMA
ISBN: 9781524763169
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Call Number: 918.04 Gue
ISBN: 9781920888107
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Debt Trap by Josh Mitchell
Call Number: 378.3 Mit
ISBN: 9781501199448
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann; Kristen Joiner
Call Number: B Heumann
ISBN: 9780807002803
Publication Date: 2021-02-23
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: 976.6 Col
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton
Call Number: 919.89 SAN
ISBN: 9781984824349
Publication Date: 2022-02-22
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: 305.896 Bro
ISBN: 9781524760854
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Solito by Javier Zamora
Call Number: B Zam
ISBN: 9780593498064
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Call Number: 594 Mon
ISBN: 9781451697711
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Call Number: B Zauner
ISBN: 9780525657743
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Call Number: 305.42 KEN
ISBN: 9780525560548
Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
Call Number: B Wamariya
ISBN: 9780451495334
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Sleeper Agent by Ann Hagedorn
Call Number: B hagedorn
ISBN: 9781501173950
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
Work with What You Got: a Memoir by Zion Clark (Contribution by); James S. Hirsch (Contribution by)
Call Number: B C;arl
ISBN: 9781536224214
Publication Date: 2023-04-11
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
Call Number: 363.73 Thu
ISBN: 9780593492307
Publication Date: 2023-02-14
Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein
Call Number: 155.9 ORE
ISBN: 9780063081727
Publication Date: 2023-01-24
Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery; Matt Patterson (Illustrator)