Dulwich College Seoul Senior School Library says:
Read more books
age 11+: pages 2-4
A selection of suggested books to read. A mixture of old and new with ideas for all ages from Year 7 up.
age 14+: pages 5-7
All the books are available from the Senior School Library and/or on Sora.
age 16+: page 8
This symbol means the book is available to read as an e-book on Sora! soraapp.com/library/dcsl
Compiled by T. Appleton
Newfor2024-25!
May 2024
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Adventure
Patrice Lawrence
Sylvia Liu
Johan Rundberg
Samantha San Miguel
Maximillian Jones
The Elemental Detectives
Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation
The Night Raven
Spineless
The Boy Behind the Wall
History through comics
Nick Abadzis
Shing Yin Khor
Melanie Gillman
Mike Richardson & Stan Sakai
Antonio Iturbe & Loreto Aroca
Laika
The Legend of Auntie Po
Stage Dreams
47 Ronin
The Librarian of Auschwitz
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The World Today
Yeva Skalietska
Ibtisam Barakat
Hadley Dyer & Mitchell Bernard
Mark Kurlansky
Greta Thunberg (ed.)
You Don’t Know What War Is
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
More than Money: How Economic Inequality
Affects Everything
Big Lies: from Socrates to Social Media
The Climate Book
Sora Selection
Natalie Lloyd
Adam Gidwitz
Amy Sarig King
Erin Bow
Roshani Chokshi
Hummingbird
A Tale Dark and Grimm Attack of the Black Rectangles
Simon Sort of Says
The Spirit Glass
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Read Worldwise
María García Esperón
Ying Chang Compestine
Candy Gourlay
Jean Craighead George
Jerry Spinelli
The Sea-Ringed World Morning Sun in Wuhan Bone Talk
Julie of the Wolves Milkweed
MorningCalmBookAward
Voted for by students at international schools in South Korea
Ernesto Cisneros
Ellen Oh (ed.)
Meg Eden Kuyatt
Tyler Page
A. F. Steadman
Falling Short You Are Here
Good Different Button Pusher
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
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Shortlist 2024-25
Elizabeth Wein
Suzy Zail
Ruta Sepetys
Jessica Hernandez
Shawna Yang Ryan
Stateless
I Am Change
I Must Betray You
Fresh Banana Leaves
Green Island
Morning Calm Book Award Read Worldwise
Voted for by students at international schools in South Korea
R. F. Kuang
Gene Luen Yang
Darrin Bell
Seema Yasmin
Chesil
Yellowface
Lunar New Year Love Story
The Talk
What the Fact?
The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart
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Shortlist 2024-25
YA Love Stories
Lynn Painter
Lillie Vale
Malinda Lo
Will Taylor
Ryan North
Better Than the Movies
Beauty and the Besharam
A Scatter of Light
The Language of Seabirds
Romeo and/or Juliet
History through comics
Mirranda Burton
H. G. Oesterheld
Brian ‘Box’ Brown
Steven Nadler & Ben Nadler
Steve Sheinkin & Nick Bertozzi
Underground
Life of Che
Tetris: the Games People Play
Heretics! : the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of modern philosophy
Bomb: the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon
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Fight the Power
Holly Bourne
Leta Hong Fincher
Bryan Stevenson
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Maria Ressa
Sora Selection Shatter Me Once Upon A K-Prom Don’t Go To Sleep The Bone Witch Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words
7 You Could Be So Pretty Betraying Big Brother: the Feminist Awakening in China Just Mercy This Place: 150 Years Retold How to Stand Up to a Dictator soraapp.com Tahereh Mafi Kat Cho Bryce Moore Rin Chupeco
Herriot & Kate Fry (eds.)
Lindsey
Tim Marshall
Jordan Ellenberg
Gabrielle Zevin
Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West
Karen Blumenthal
The Future of Geography
How Not to Be Wrong
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Calling Bullsh*t
Jane Against the World
Years 11 to 13
These books can help you learn about the world... which will enable you to have grown-up conversations... so that you can pretend to be a well-rounded human!
Danny Dorling
Mary Beard
Oliver Burkeman
Neil Shubin
Henry Petroski
Malcolm Gladwell
Atul Gawande
Slowdown
Women & Power
Four Thousand Weeks
Your Inner Fish
To Engineer is Human
Outliers
Being Mortal
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