Extra Credit Recommendations--You can earn up to 20 extra points:(Non-Fiction):
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg (20 points The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (7 points) Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom (7 points) Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (Contemporary Literature): The Pact by Jodi Picoult (24 points)* Three by Ted Dekker (14 points) The Help by Kathryn Stockett (23 points) Sekret by Lindsay Smith (13 points) She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick (7 points) (Modern Classics--AP Worthy): The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri(18 points) * The Road by Cormac McCarthy (8 points) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (13 points) **Please note: some of the above books contain slight mature content, that is why I have given you numerous choices.Many of the above books are linked to their Common Sense Media review (some for the corresponding movie) if you want to see the breakdown of their age-appropriateness** |
Ms. Hall's Recommended Reading List for Quarter 1Louisa May Alcott- Little Women (33)
Pearl S. Buck- The Good Earth (19) Chris Crow- Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (5)* Daphne DuMaurier- Rebecca (26) C.S. Lewis- The Screwtape Letters (7) Jon Krakauer- Into the Wild (12)* John Knowles- A Separate Peace (10) Erich Maria Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front (10) John Steinbeck- The Pearl (4) August Wilson- The Piano Lesson (4) *Non-fiction selections |