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Thanks for all your suggestions! The English teacher and I are splitting up some reading already. Here they are: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (English) "Battle Dress" by Amy Efaw. It's about a girl going through the 1st weeks of training at West Point. I couldn't put it down. I read about 20 books this summer and thought what a depressing bunch of stories for young adults, probably one reason I liked this book. How about Julia Alvarez? Toni Morrison? Isabel Allende? Laura Esquivel? Willa Cather Pearl S. Buck The story of the Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp Just off the top of my head, "Charms for the Easy Life" or anything else by Kaye Gibbons, "The Broke Diaries" by Angela Nissel and, of course, To Kill a Mockingbird. I am using a great anthology with my English 11 students entitled Discovering Fictioned. by Hans P. Guth and Gabriele L. Rico. It has a diverse and modern selection of male and female writers. The questions are thought provoking and there are wonderful lessons on how to write about fiction. It also includes student examples of writing which are of a very high quality. If you can't find it here are a few suggestions: Alice Munro (Canadian) short story Boys ands Girls. She has many other stories as well and novels. Joyce Carol Oates, Tillie Olsen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper (depressing but very good), Ursula K. LeGuin (science fiction), Alice Walker, Dorothy Parker The Standard of Living, Toni Cade Bambaram, Margaret Atwood, Will Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Jeanette Winterson The World and Other Places. Barbara Kingslover is another who comes to mind. How about THE ROAD TO COURAIN (sp.), Look at books by Joan Bauer, also see Lowry's GATHERING BLUE from Helen Dittmer Toni Morrison Kaye Gibbons Jill McCorkle A great reference source for women writers and a summary of their works is the series titled Masterplots II--Women's Literature Series. Whaley, Liz. Weaving in the women : transforming the high school English curriculum / Liz Whaley & Liz Dodge. -- Porthsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, c1993. xvii, 300 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index. ISBN 0867093277 (acid-free paper) 1. Women and literature--Study and teaching (Secondary). 2. English literature--Women authors--Study and teaching (Secondary). Alcott wrote some, Joyce Carol Oates has some with an edge to them, Mary Higgins Clark, Fransesca Block,.. Sarah Katz Library Media Specialist Fox Lane High School Bedford, New York 10506 skatz@bedford.k12.ny.us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=