Hit: Novel Suggestion

[Becky Smith <bsmith@LCC.NET>]

I asked for suggestions for a novel for a 9th grade U.S. History class,
preferably one which spans several years or decades.  I also asked for a
novel with a theme of overcoming adversity.  As usual, you guys came
through!  Thanks to all who replied.  P.S.  I put an asterisk by my
teacher's choices.

Becky

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Novels with themes involving overcoming adversity:
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Gary Paulsen:  Transall Saga
Gary Paulsen:  Hatchet
Avi:  True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Ji Li Jiang:  Red Scarf Girl
Call of the Wild
Humbug Mountain
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Indian in the Cupboard
Sing Down the Moon
Zlata's Diary - Kids like this because it is written by a girl who lived
through the terror of the Bosnia war.

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten-Boom - would be good for advanced class.
How can you forgive a people who held you in a
concentration camp during the Holocaust???  Corrie did.  Read how she
miraculously survived.

Liddy by Katherine Patterson - Industrial Revolution -women factory
workers.  Told from Liddy's point of view.  Very well written for
the AVID class.

Louis Sachar:  Holes*

Try "Holes" by Louis Sachar
He should read the first few chapters to them to get them hooked and to
get
past the 'stuff.' The rest is a super book with a super message about
overcoming anything in life with persistance and patience.  One by one,
little by little, things get done!  The old work ethic, but there is
more.
What we do always becomes a part of the big picture.  It always
impacts.....
We make choices and we pay for them.    This book offers a lot to
discuss--to get them thinking 'beyond themselves.'

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Novels for U.S. History classes (9th grade)
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Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman  (Civil War to Civil Rights)*
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Ann Rinaldi:  Mine Eyes Have Seen
Katherine Ayres:  North By Night
The Glory Field*
Caddie Woodlawn
A Family Apart
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildren Taylor (depression era, black
family copes with prejucices of the deep South)  Told from
Cassie's p.o.v. is a 9 year old girl and her 13 year old brother.
WONDERFUL!

Charlie Skedaddle by Beatty   Charlie is excited to leave the bowry
section of NY to join a company of the Civil War - runs from
battle and is now fearing for his life if caught.  How he overcomes this
situation provides the reader with a compassionate view of
the children who fought in the Civil War.

Other titles suggested:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)  by Herman Hesse
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Centennial by James Michener


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Becky Smith             District Librarian
Rusk ISD             mailto:bsmith@lcc.net
Rusk, Texas  75785
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