Library – Media Resource Centre

Langstaff Secondary School

Richmond Hill, Ontario

FICTION – REALITY – GRADE 12 ISU

www.langstaff.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca

Novel ( Fiction) / Non-fiction / Theme
Adams, D. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Dawkins, R. The God
Delusion 211 DAW
Harris, S. The End of Faith
Hitchens, C. God Is Not Great
200 HIT / Godlessness, atheism, negative aspects of religions
Anderson, R. The War Orphan: The Horrors of War Are Haunting His Dreams / Beah, I. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 966.404 BEA
Cook, K. Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda 967.61 COO / War’s effects on children – orphans and children as soldiers
Anonymous Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics / Dowd, M. Bushworld: Enter
at your own risk 973.931 BUS
Cameron, S. On The Take:
Crime, Corruption and Greed
in the Mulroney Years
971.0647 CAM / Politics
Atwood, M. Oryx and Crake / Gore, A. An Inconvenient
Truth / Globalization trends;
environment
Austin, J. Pride and Prejudice / Social Classes, Class prejudice, romance
Blatty, W. The Exorcist / Scott Peck Glimpses of the
Devil 235.4 PEC / Exorcism, demonic possession
Bradbury, R. Fahrenheit 451 / Steffens, B. Censorship
363.31 STE (and others) / Censorship, defiance, book burning
Condon, R. The Manchurian Candidate / Perkins, J. The secret history
of the American empire:
economic hit men, jackals and
the truth about global
corruption 337.3 PER / CIA hitmen who change the political and economic landscape of developing countries for the benefit of the USA
Cook, R. Outbreak / Leung, P. Sars War 614.5 LEV
Nikiforuk, A. Pandemonium
614.4 NIK
Preston, R. Hot Zone 614.5PRE
CBC News in Review May 2003 / Outbreak and spread of uncontrollable disease

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Crichton, M. State of Fear / Cooper-Johnston, R. El Nino:
The Weather Phenomenon
that Changed the World
551.6 COU
Klein, N. The Shock Doctrine:
the rise of disaster capitalism
306.342 KLE
Reiss, B. The Coming Storm
551.55 REI / Eco-thriller on eco-terrorism; function of social fears over global warming, pollution, severe weather; limits of knowledge
inesen, Isak. Out of Africa / Arnold, G. Africa: A Modern
History 960.3 ARN / God, aristocracy, Africa
Dostoyevsky, F. Crime and Punishment / Lyons, L. The History of
Punishment 364.6 LYO
Prejean, H. Dead Man
Walking 364.66 PRE / Death penalty, punishment, guilt, redemption
Doyle, A.C. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Gerber, S. Chemistry and
Crime: From Sherlock Holmes
to Today’s Courtroom
363.256 CHE / Forensics, History
Du Maurier, D. Rebecca / A Brief History of Crime
364.0941HIT / Crime and deception;
English upper class
Dumas, A. The Count of Monte Cristo / Rule, A. Every Breath You
Take 364.15 / Greed, revenge
Edwards, K. Memory Keeper’s Daughter / Levine, M. A Mind at a Time
370.15
Ratto, L. Coping With Being
Physically Challenged
641.151RAT / Disability, Adoption
Fitch, J. White Oleander / Pipher, M. Reviving Ophelia
305.235 PIP / Girls, coming of age
Franzen, J. The Corrections / Lane, C. Shyness: How
Normal Behaviour Became a
Sickness;
Family Circles (video)
AV VR 730 FAM / Overmedication in America; misuse and abuse of psychiatry, medication
Haddon, M The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Mirror Neurons and Autism
Scientific American Nov. 2006 / Prejudice; differences
Hamilton, J. Map of the World / Trial of Charles Smith, child
pathologist, investigates his
mistaken accusations, leading to
innocent people’s being jailed
www.cbc.ca; Charles Smith Blog / Child abuse; false accusation

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Hanaver, C. My Sister’s Bones / Crook, M. Looking good:
teenagers and eating disorders
616.8526CRO / Eating disorders
Heller, J. Catch-22 / Hughes-Wilson, J. A brief
history of the Cold War: the
hidden truth about how close
we came to nuclear conflict
909.82 HUG / Cold War (Korea), survival, heroism, leadership
Hosseini, K. The Kite Runner / Pigott, P. Canada in
Afghanistan 958.104 PIG / Afghanistan; discrimination
Hosseini, K. A Thousand Splendid Suns / Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel 949.2
HIR HIR;
Pigott, P. Canada in
Afghanistan 958.104PIG / Women oppressed by religion; fundamentalism; fanaticism
Ignatieff, M. Charlie Johnson in the Flames / Ignatieff, M. Virtual War
949.7103 / Meditation on war and guilt
Irving, J. The Cider House Rules / Haugen, D. Adoption
362.734 ADO
Tittle, P. Should Parents Be
Licensed? Debating the Issues
649.1 SHO / Abortion, adoption, relationships
Kesey, K. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Murphy-Paul, A. The cult of
personality: how personality
tests are leading us to
miseducate our children…
155.28 PAU / Mental illness; abuses of psychiatric profession and institutions
Kindl, P. The Woman in the Wall / Lane, C. Shyness: How
Normal Behaviour Became a
Sickness / Overcoming personality quirks
Kleinbaum, N. Dead Poet’s Society / Peck, S. Denial of the Soul
179.7 PEC / Poetry, beauty, philosophy, suicide
Lee, T. Throwaway Daughter / Chong, Denise. Concubine’s
Children 305.8951 0711 CHO / Immigration and adoption
China’s one child policy
Lessing, D. The Cleft / Freedman, E. The Essential
Feminist Reader
Sax, L. Why Gender Matters:
what parents and teachers need
to know…
Phillips, M. The Ascent of
Woman / Male-female rivalry; female superiority

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Lessing, D. Fifth Child and Ben in the World / Snyder, C. Euthanasia
179.7 EUT
Harris, N. The Ethics of
Euthanasia 179.7 ETH
Jackson Euthanasia 179.7 JAC
Peck, S. Denial of the Soul
179.7 PEC
Williams, M. Terminal Illness
364.15 TER / Euthanasia; parental responsibility; family relationships
Lessing, D. The Good Terrorist / Stewart, G. America Under
Attack: September 11, 2001
973.931 STE
Dershowitz Why Terrorism
Works: understanding the
threat, responding to the
challenge 303.625
Hoge, J. How did this Happen
973.931 HOG
Lee, N. A Nation Challenged
973.931NAT / IRA terrorism in England;
Terrorists’ causes, ethics
Lessing, D. The Sweetest Dream / Ellis, E. Our stories, our songs:
African children talk about
AIDS 362.7 ELL;
Nolen, S. Stories of AIDS in
Africa 362.196 NOL; / AIDS in Africa; inefficiency of NGOs
Mitchell, M. Gone With The Wind / Donovan, T. The American Civil
War 973.73 AME / American Civil War; war’s effects on individuals; women and war
Ondaaje, M. The English Patient / Hoo, G. World War II
940.53 HOO / Horrors of war
Pasternak, B. Doctor Zhivago / Floyd, D. Russia in Revolt
947.08FLO
Lewin, M. Russia USSR 947.08
Pitcher, H. Witnesses of the
Russian Revolution
947.0841 PIT / People caught in the chaos of war and the Russian Revolution
Patchett, A. Bell Canto / Haugen, D. Terrorism
303.626 TER / Terrorism
Patterson, J. 3rd Degree / Townsend, J. Organized Crime
364.1 TOW / Organized crime

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Puzo, M. The Godfather / Townsend, J. Organized Crime
364.1TOW
Sher, J. The Road to Hell: How
the biker gangs are conquering
Canada 364.106 SHE / Mafia; organized crime
Reichs, K. Death Du Jour / Wingate, A. Scene of the Crime
363.2502 WIN / Forensic Science
Russo, R. Empire Falls / Family business dynasty’s rise and fall and the people it destroys
Saramago, J. Blindness / Leung, P. Sars War 614.5 LEV
Nikiforuk, A. Pandemonium 614.4 NIK
Preston, R. Hot Zone 614.5PRE
CBC News in Review May 2003 / Epidemics; social values;
treatment of marginalized; moral blindness
Shute, N. On the Beach / Minneus, S. Nukes: The Spread
of Nuclear Weapons 327.1 MIN / Nuclear disaster and aftermath; end of world
Solzhenitsyn, A. August 1914 (Nobel Prize Winner) / Clay, C. King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led The World To War 940.3 CLA / World War I
Styron, W. Sophie’s Choice / Saunders, N. The Life of Anne
Frank 940.53FRA
Gruda, M. Tricks of Fate
940.5318GRU
Goldstein, S. Ten Marks and a
Train Ticket: Benno’s Escape to
Freedom 940.53 GOL / Holocaust
Townsend, S. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction / Laqueur, W. The New
Terrorism: Fanaticism and the
Arms of Mass Destruction
303.625 LAQ / Ethics behind Tony Blair’s warning about Hussein’s WMD; effect on average British citizen
Turow, S. Presumed Innocent / Siggins, M. A Canadian
Tragedy 346.7102623 SIG
Townsend, J. Cyber Crime
364.16 TOW
Townsend, J. Crime Scenes
363.25 TOW / Cyber crime
Walker, A. The Color Purple / Livesey, R. Black Heritage
971 LIV (and others) / Race, God, concepts of beauty, independence
Withers, P. Peak Survival / Krakauer, J. Into Thin Air
796.52 KRA / Everest climb tragedy;
extreme sports

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Wolfe, T. Bonfires of the Vanities / Tanner, J. Teenage Troubles:
Youth and Deviance in Canada
364.360971 TAN / Teenage Crime
Zamyatin, Y. We / Rady, M. Causes and
Consequences of the Collapse
of Communism in Eastern
Europe 940.09717 RAD / “Distopia” (The most influential science-fiction novel of the 20th century).
Zusak, M. The Book Thief / Filipovic, Z. Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries 303.6 STO / German children in World War II