ICEBERGS -- Teen Summer Reading List
Friday, July 8, 2016, 8:58 a.m.Staff Picks
ICEBERGS -- Teen Summer Reading List
In partnership with the National Building Museum
Through September 5, 2016, the National Building Museum is a one-of-a-kind destination with ICEBERGS, designed by James Corner Field Operations. Representing a beautiful, underwater world of glacial ice fields spanning the Museum’s enormous Great Hall, the immersive installation emphasizes current themes of landscape representation, geometry, and construction.
Explore these topics and learn more about architecture, climate change, and polar exploration at the National Building Museum and through books! With the help of the National Building Museum, we have compiled several reading lists to get you started.
All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall
Based on a true story, this funny, suspenseful, and engaging novel is about four students' quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron. *fiction
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the “female Robinson Crusoe” by Peggy Caravantes
As the only survivor, Ada spent two years stranded on the frozen continent, alone, avoiding polar bears and trapping foxes and seals. Through a collection of diary entries, telegrams, photos, and maps her story is told. *nonfiction
Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi
This graphic novel wonderfully depicts one of the great Antarctic explorers, Ernest Shackleton, and the men who joined him on his dangerous expedition. *graphic novel, nonfiction
Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye with Phillippe Cousteau and Earth Echo International
Learn about the water crisis without getting bummed out. The authors offers ways you can help your community improve the planet's water system and shares stories of what young people around are doing in their communities. to quash the water crisis. *nonfiction
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
A post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a great earthquake and a disastrous flood. With only a copy of the Odyssey to her company, Penelope goes on a journey to find her family and along the way meets some interesting and sometimes dangerous characters. *fiction
Interested in reading more about icebergs and the environment? Check out these titles:
Find ICEBERGS reading lists for adults, upper elementary, and early elementary children.
Explore these topics and learn more about architecture, climate change, and polar exploration at the National Building Museum and through books! With the help of the National Building Museum, we have compiled several reading lists to get you started.
All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall
Based on a true story, this funny, suspenseful, and engaging novel is about four students' quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron. *fiction
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the “female Robinson Crusoe” by Peggy Caravantes
As the only survivor, Ada spent two years stranded on the frozen continent, alone, avoiding polar bears and trapping foxes and seals. Through a collection of diary entries, telegrams, photos, and maps her story is told. *nonfiction
Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi
This graphic novel wonderfully depicts one of the great Antarctic explorers, Ernest Shackleton, and the men who joined him on his dangerous expedition. *graphic novel, nonfiction
Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye with Phillippe Cousteau and Earth Echo International
Learn about the water crisis without getting bummed out. The authors offers ways you can help your community improve the planet's water system and shares stories of what young people around are doing in their communities. to quash the water crisis. *nonfiction
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
A post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a great earthquake and a disastrous flood. With only a copy of the Odyssey to her company, Penelope goes on a journey to find her family and along the way meets some interesting and sometimes dangerous characters. *fiction
Interested in reading more about icebergs and the environment? Check out these titles:
- Soonchild by Russell Hoban *fiction
- Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick *fiction
- East by Edith Pattou; fairy tale retelling ("East of the Sun, West of the Moon") *fiction
- Far Arden by Kevin Cannon *graphic novel, fiction
- White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean *fiction
- In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers by Deborah Reber *nonfiction
Find ICEBERGS reading lists for adults, upper elementary, and early elementary children.
