Thank you to all of the people who made suggestions for a contemporary addition to
our freshman honors English list. I appreciate your help so much.
My target was:
"One of our English teachers has asked me to give her the name
of two fiction books that the department might consider for our 9th grade
honors English reading list .I suggested "Speak" by Laura Halse Anderson,
and she has added that, but they are trying to update the list and want two
more contemporary titles. Do you have suggestions that we might consider?"
One person said that it is her recommendation to stick to the classics for advanced
placement classes because those books will prepare students for SATs, college, and
life. She also pointed out that the people who read SATs will have read the
classics and references to characters in them is impressive whereas they may not
have read contemporary novels.
Our lists are mostly classics but we are thinking that it would be good to add two
more contemporary selections to them.
The suggestions I got were
House of the Scorpion by Frances Farmer
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn x2
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson x2
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Lovely Bones and Lucky by Alice Sebold
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Acceleration by Graham Macnamee
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman
Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
Comfort by Carolee Dean
The Maze by Will Hobbs
Petey by Ben Mikaelson
Eva by Peter Dickinson
Camouflage by Miklowitz
Princess: A true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson
Forged by fire by Draper
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Skellig by David Almond
Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
"What can I say? Librarians rule."
...Regis Philbin
Marilyn L. Johnson
District Library/Media Specialist
Holbrook Unified School District
POB 640
Holbrook AZ 86025-0640
928-524-6411 Ex 603 Ex 711
mjohns@holbrook.k12.az.us
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