Lewis, Michael. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.         Print. The Blind Side tells the story of an astounding football player named Michael Oher, who grew up in a ‘hood in Memphis, Tennessee and spent most of h

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All-American Meal. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Print. Schlosser begins the book by giving the history of fast food restaurants. The fast food industry started out in Orange County Cali

Frey, Darcy. The Last Shot. New York: Simon 8 Schuster, 1994. Print. In the Inner city of Coney Island, New York there is a lot of crime and poverty. For the students at Abraham Lincoln High School, which was once considered one of the top academic schoo

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper             Perennial, 1991. Print. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a psychologist who has done decades of research on positive aspects of human experience and

Simontacchi, Carol. The Crazy Makers. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 2000. Print. Carol Simontacchi, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and professional member of the International and American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists, used data colle

Mills, George. A View From the Bench: The story of an Ordinary Football Player on a         Big-time Football Team. Chicago: University of Illinois. 1991. Print. George Mills was a football star from Omaha, Nebraska. He was recruited by the Universi

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Holloway, Monica. Cowboy 8 Wills: a Remarkable Little Boy and the Dog That Changed     His Life. New York: Gallery, 2009. Print. This story is about a young boy and his struggle with autism. He first gets diagnosed with autism at the age of three. To c

Barbara Ehrenreich, a journalist, goes out to lunch with a co-worker and this is where she thinks of her book, Nickel and Dimed. She leaves her job, house, and husband for a year to write a story about low wage life in America. She starts searching in Key

Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. New York: Penguin Group, 2005. Print. Everything Bad Is Good For You is a book that explains how popular culture such as video games, TV, Films,