Thanks so much for all of your suggestions: Here is the complete list
below; some are repeated more than once!
Our 9th grade is now doing Farewell to Manzanar. Some schools are doing
Slaughterhouse Five.
Secret Life of Bees (Monk) is fabulous. It is funny and paints many
pictures. It explores topics of which some students today are not
overly familiar. (black versus white) It has themes and then more
themes.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
After by Francine Prose
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
The newest book that was just adopted for the freshman here is Speak by
Laurie Halse Anderson
Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey and one of the following:
Cold Sassy Tree
House on Mango Street
The Chosen
The Good Earth
Great Expectations
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Little Prince
The Mayor of Casterbridge
My Antonia
Silas Marner
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson My freshman teachers are doing this one
and the students love it.
Our rising 9th graders read Speak by Anderson and Monster by Myers as
summer reading.
Depending on what subjects they want,
try "House of Scorpion" by Farmer
or "Sherman's March" by Bass - a powerful retelling of his march through
GA in the CW.
Return to Manzanar
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Wrecked by E.R. Frank
Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oats
I've had success with
Burns: Cold Sassy Tree
Westerfeld: Uglies
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
How about Uglies by Scott Westerfield? It's the first in the series.
Fascinating discussions could be had!
love Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. We used in w/grades 7-12 for a One
book program last year.
Lots of cross curricular themes and worked well for a wide range of ages
and abilities, as well as both boys and girls.
We're looking at Sherman Alexie's new book, Diary of a Part Time Indian.
I think it will work well and have been campaigning strongly for it.
On My Honor by Marion Bauer.
We're using Al Capone does my shirts. The teacher really likes it.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I think it should be required reading!
Enter Three Witches
Song of the Sparrow
Olive Anne Brown's Cold Sassy Tree and Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird come to me right off the cuff....they might like Allende's
City of the Beasts......
I suggest that they go with Sherman Alexie's national Book Award winner,
"Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian." His website
http://www.fallsapart.com/ . Plenty of fun, issues and support material.
Kathy J. Berg
Library Media Specialist
ND SLAYS Chair
Horizon Middle School
(701) 323-4561
http://library.educ8.org/horizon/
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