Here's the list. Thanks for all of your recommendations. By the way,
she chose PEACE LIKE A RIVER by Leif Enger.
ORIGINAL REQUEST:
Our 11th grade English teacher is looking for suggestions for a class
novel for the last six weeks. We were thinking about Into Thin Air, but
that possibility was nixed because of expletives. We'd like to find a
contemporary work, fiction or nonfiction, that is relevant, not too
complicated, and a good read. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
RESPONSES:
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Morenson (3) - current & plenty of topics to
discuss & research
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Jennifer Armstrong
The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (also Nineteen Minutes & The Tenth
Circle)
The Firm,
Beantrees,
Feed
The Things They Carried (2)
My Sister's Keeper.
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (one book?)
The Great Gatsby
Night by Elie Weisel
Scarlet letter
Glass Menagerie
Raisin in the sun
Old man and the sea
The Secret Life of Bees
Bless Me Ultima
The Chosen
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Good Earth
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Ethan Frome
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Bluest Eye
Of Mice and Men
Monster
Witness
Speak
The Grapes of Wrath
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
The Joy Luck Club
Native Speaker
Native Son
Invisible Man
The Color Purple
China Boy
Black Boy
On the Road
Reservation Blues
Third and Indiana
If Beale Street Could Talk
Peace Like a River
Having Our Say, by the Delany sisters
Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
BOY'S LIFE by Robt. McCammon
We Beat the Streets
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone
Barbara C Massey, Librarian
Winston School San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
massey@winston-sa.org
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