In recent years, the "admission standards" of international schools have become more than just TOEFL IELTS scores - reading volume, reading ability, and critical thinking have gradually become the "invisible standards" of top international schools. In order to cultivate students' reading habits and improve students' comprehension ability, many international schools will set up book lists for different disciplines or hold campus reading days and other activities.
Today, the deer teacher of Mobi Island International Education shared with you the list of international students to meet the needs of young to middle and senior children, during the summer vacation, parents can accompany their children to read it!
01/Juvenile Essay
"Little White Finds a Friend"
Author: [U.S.] Dan Santat
Subtitle: Incredible Adventures
Original name: The Adventures of Beekle
2016 Winning Book
"Little White Finds Friends" is a 2015 Cadick Gold Award. This story explains the true meaning of friendship and imagination, and encourages children to bravely find their place in the world.
The story takes place on a remote island where the fantasy friend, Xiao Bai, was born. He waited patiently for a real child to imagine him. However, after being disappointed again and again, he decided to set out to look for it. He embarked on an incredible journey to the hustle and bustle of the city. There, he finally met his most perfect friend and got his own name: Xiao Bai.
《After the Fall》
The story tells that Mr. Fat Egg fell from a high wall, was injured, and suffered from a fear of heights. In order to be able to climb the wall again and observe his favorite birds, he decided to overcome his fears...
Mr. Fat Egg uses many methods, some of which look stupid and funny, such as making a pair of wings... But when you think about it, it makes some sense. His timid appearance facing the heights is vivid and interesting, so that children seem to see themselves in the face of trauma and fear. Mr. Egg's story undoubtedly gives them good inspiration and behavioral references.
《The War that Saved My Life》
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Award-winning book in 2016
It is a novel set in World War II, a 2016 Newbury Silver Medal award.
During the Second World War, many children were sent to the British countryside for refuge and raised by others. Ada was born with a palm deformity, and during the war she escaped and took refuge in the countryside with her brother Jamie, who was cared for by the strict Susan Smith. In a difficult environment, the strong Ada relearned, experienced everything, overcame innate difficulties, and learned to ride a horse. The emotional line between mother and daughter cultivated by Ada and Susan in the novel makes everyone feel the warmth of the world in the face of the cruel war.
《The Treasure Box》
Author: [Ao] Margaret Wald / Text / [AO] Freya Blackwood / Photo
2019 Award-winning books
This is a shocking picture book that tells the story of the little boy Peter and his father who had to flee their hometown due to war and chaos, and who had to guard the precious "treasure box" through hardships. After Dad's death, Peter took over the task of protecting the treasure box and eventually had to bury it. Until one day after the war, he embarked on the road to find the treasure box...
02/Junior High School
《The Book of Dust》
By Philip Pullman
2018 Award-winning books
It tells the story of the heroine Lyra Belacqua from birth to adulthood. Malcolm Polstead's life in Oxford has been quiet, and his favorite is canoeing with his patron saint, Asta. But as the rain grew, they found that the world around them was becoming less and less peaceful, and all this seemed to be related to a baby named Lyra Belacqua...
Who Moved My Cheese? 》
Author: [USA] Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple fable full of profound truths about change in life. The content is about four characters who live in a "labyrinth" and are doing their best to find the "cheese" that nourishes their bodies and minds and makes them happy.
The "labyrinth" in the book represents a place where you spend time and energy pursuing what you desire, which can be the institution you serve or the community you live in.
The Little Prince
Author: [French] Antoni de Saint-Exupéry
The fairy tale depicts the little prince not being conquered by the deceptive world of adulthood and finally finding his ideals. This ideal is the love that connects everything in the universe, and this love is lacking in the world. Therefore, the little prince often exudes a sad mood. The author, Saint-Exupéry, said in his dedication: "This book is dedicated to the former child who grew into an adult.
"The Little Prince" has not only won the love of children's readers, but also adults, and the condensed language of the work permeates the author's profound thinking about human beings and human civilization. The irony and fantasy, truth and philosophy it exhibits have made it one of the most famous fairy tale novels in France and even in the world.
《Counting by 7s》
By Holly Goldberg Sloan
2016 Winning Books
Willow Chance, 12, is a child who was adopted from an early age. Describes himself as a "hopeless marginal figure". At the beginning of middle school, Willow scored perfect marks on the school's exams, but her teachers didn't believe it and sent Willow to the office of Dell, the student advisor in question, on the grounds of cheating on the exam.
Dell is portrayed as a sloppy, clumsy, incompetent teacher. He dismissively gave Willow an extra exam question, but the result surprised him, all A. Since then, Dell has gradually discovered that Willow is a genius.
03/High School
The Moon and Sixpence
Author: [English] William Somerset Maugham
"There were sixpence all over the place, but he looked up and saw the moon."
Charles, a banker who is middle-aged and has a successful career, in order to pursue his secret dream of painting, suddenly abandons his wife and children and abandons his family. He knows that every identity of man is a kind of self-abduction, and only loss is the way to freedom.
In a foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more and more determined and persistent about his dreams. He said: "I have to paint, like a drowning person has to struggle."
After experiencing various bizarre encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl and had children, and successfully created a series of amazing masterpieces. It was at this time that he was knocked down by a terminal illness and blindness in both eyes, and before he died, he made a decision that shocked everyone...
The human world is long and fleeting, some people see dust, some people see stars. Charles was the one who spent his whole life chasing the stars.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair
Author: [American] Robert M. Posig
On a hot summer day, the father and son and Mr. and Mrs. John rode motorcycles from Minnesota to California, across the continental United States, and the process of traveling was interspersed with the process of a young Feldlow studying science and technology and Western classics, seeking self-liberation, and exploring the meaning of life.
Along the way, in the form of a philosophical Xiao Taokuo, my father combined the natural scenery he saw, the experience of camping in the wilderness, the conversation of the night inn, the locomotive repair technology, etc. with the in-depth exposition and commentary of the rational philosophy of the West since Socrates, and carried out a reflection on the subject-object dualism of the metaphysical tradition, as well as science and art, knowledge and value, classicism and romanticism, spirit and matter, mechanism and mysticism, Thinking on the relationship between things under the division of the West and the East and other Western dichotomies.
《Everything Everything》
Author: Nicola Yoon
Award-winning book in 2017
The heroine Maddy was born with a rare syndrome of immunodeficiency, even if the common virus may be able to resist, she can only live in her home, a sterile ward for the rest of her life.
Maddy has always fantasized about going to see the outside world. It wasn't until I was eighteen that my new neighbor, Olly, a sunny teenager, moved in next door. They started dating, falling in love.
Maddy began to think about what it meant to be really alive, and she was determined to get out of the sterile ward and try her best to live once. For the sake of freedom, for the sake of love, even if you sacrifice everything, you must go to see the splendid world, so as not to waste this short life.
In 2017, the film of the same name, based on the novel, was released in several countries around the world.
《Turtles All the Way Down》
Author: John Green's 2018 Award-Winning Book
Aza, a 16-year-old girl, never thought of going in search of the mysteriously missing billionaire, but in the face of huge prize money and the insistence of her best friend, she embarked on a quest. She had a childhood friendship with the rich man's son, Davis, and seven years later, two sensitive teenagers attracted and admired each other and began a relationship.
Aza strives to be a good daughter, a good student, a good detective... But the emotions of anxiety lead her into the vortex of thought, and like the "Turtle Cycle Theory" as the title of the book, she has been struggling in the "spiral of thought.".
《When Breath Becomes Air》
Author: Paul Kalanithi's 2018 winning book
It's a sadistic book, a book written by a very good neurosurgeon who is about to graduate from a hospital, who has advanced lung cancer and took the time to write it in the 22 months between his diagnosis and his death.
His name is Paul Kalanithi, and he's a typical kid in China. Xueba's thinking is different from ordinary people, and what he has been thinking about but not thinking about is the meaning of life. So I went all the way to Stanford University, studied literature and biology, wanted to explain the meaning of life from a philosophical and scientific point of view, and read until I reached the Master of Arts. During an experience visiting a neurological rehabilitation home, he suddenly realized that the most direct way to explain the meaning of life is to engage in the profession of doctor, the place that is most likely to change the course of life and death, so Paul abandons the text to practice medicine.