Scarsdale Public Schools

The author's first novel, a New York Times bestseller, is both a murder mystery and a coming-of-age story. Set in the 1950s in North Carolina, the story revolves around an abandoned child known as the Marsh Girl, who lives in relative isolation along the desolate coast.

"Lab Girl ...a beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees. Terrific." - Barack Obama
"Engrossing. . . . Thrilling. . . . Does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology." - The New York Times

This fiction about an eccentric and regimented loner speaks to the importance of friendship and human connection as the plot follows how her life unfolds beautifully after a chance encounter with a complete stranger.

"A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, Jell-O Girls is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love and loss and the Jell-O curse." -- Goodreads

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding in conjunction with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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