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[Paula Galland <paula@FREENET.SCRI.FSU.EDU>]

These are the ONLY two replies I received to my pleas for help in
updating our high school supplemental reading lists.  I am trying to
encourage my high school English teachers to choose some contemporary
titles for the list and would like to have more ideas than just mine
and the two listed here.

I would really appreciate any additional suggestions you may have.
Thanks!

Received so far...


From: Kay Peterson <ckpeters@teleport.com>

How about  ..?
The Chosen       by Potak
The Chocolate War    Cormier
Canyons          Gary Paulsen
Foundation (Trilogy)  Asimov
Watership Down        Adams
Briar Rose            Jane Yolen
Ender's Game or
The Seventh Son       Orson Scott Card
Anything written by Sue Ellen Bridgers
Killing Mr. Griffin   Lois Duncan
The Outsiders         S.E. Hinton

I tried to choose those that IMHO were well crafted, as well as good
reads.

From:     ******************************************************
     * Jan Weeks, Librarian @ North Knox High School      *
     * Box 187, Bicknell, Indiana  47512                  *
     * email: jweeks@ideanet.doe.state.in.us              *
     ******************************************************
I decided to reply to the list on this one as it is the second request
for *good reading lists* this AM on this list.  I don't have the list
here but our college-bound English classes must read 6 'classics' a
year and take an 'Electronic Bookshelf" test in the library and write a
paper on each book, each book deals with a different topic, such as character
descriptions, themes, etc.  We purchased the beginning tests from
Electronic Bookshelf, (I'm at home and don't have address but will send
if anyone wants it)  and I found a gold mine in old Perfection book
tests.  To mention just a few titles on computer test: *Les Miserable*,
*Lord of the Flies* *McTeague*, *The Promise*, most of Edith Wharton,
several Faulkner, *Dr. Zhivago*, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky <?>, Willa Cather,
several plays by Shaw, Williams, Ibsen, O"Neill.
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I hope that others of you will have more suggestions to add to the
list. I'll post other replies when I receive them.

Thanks in advance.

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Paula Galland - Glynn Co. Schools - St. Simons Isl., GA
                     paula@freenet.fsu.edu
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