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1. 에스더 원장님의 각 한년별 추천도서

Grades 3/4

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary 

Ralph is a young mouse who lives with his family in an old hotel. Ralph, like any young one halfway between childhood and adulthood, desires to be more independent from his family. His tale begins when he discovers a toy motorcycle that belongs to a young guest at the hotel. Ralph and the young boy become friends, and soon Ralph is enjoying many adventures, all of which involve the wonderful toy motorcycle.

Grades 5/6

The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson

When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.

Grades 7/8

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Grades 9/10

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Anna Fitzgerald was genetically designed, conceived, and born to be the perfect genetic match for her sister, Kate who suffers from a rare form of childhood leukemia and will die without blood and bone marrow transfusions from Anna. At 13, when her sister now needs a kidney, Anna has had enough. Anna hires an attorney and sues her parents for the rights to her own body. Their father, a firefighter and part time stargazer, is torn between the competing needs of his children. Their mother, an attorney who retired when she had children, struggles to hold the family together and keep Kate alive at all costs."

Grades 11/12

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

A compelling novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. Heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it's like to literally lose your mind.