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Class V   2000


You are required to read a total of five books from this list which was compiled by members of the English Department. Since you will be asked to write about these books in September, you must take notes on all five books. Use the format provided, and expect that these notes will be collected by your teacher.

Adoff, Arnold, ed.  I Am the Darker Brother
Alexander, Lloyd  Westmark
Arnothy, Christine  I Am Fifteen and Don't Want to Die
Auel, Jean   The Clan of the Cave Bear
Barrett, William E.  Lilies of the Field
Bennett, Lerone J.  What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King
Blinn, William  Brian's Song
Blos, Joan  A Gathering of Days
Bonham, Frank  Viva Chicano
Brown, Dee  Creek Mary's Blood
Childress, Alice  Rainbow Jordan
Clapp, Patricia  Dr. Elizabeth: The Story of the First Woman Doctor
Collier, James  My Brother Sam Is Dead
Crawford, Olivia  Four Women in a Violent Time
Daly, Maureen  Seventeenth Summer
Demetz, Hana  House on Prague Street
Dumas, Alexander  The Three Musketeers
Fox, Paula  The Slave Dancer
Gordon, Sheila   Waiting for the Rain
Greene, Bette  Summer of My German Soldier
Guy, Rosa   And I Heard a Bird Sing
Hamilton, Virginia  Anthony Burns
Hentoff, Nat  Jazz Country
Hinton, S. E.  That Was Then, This Is Now
Holman, Felice  Slake's Limbo
Hudson, Christopher   The Killing Fields
Hunt, Irene  No Promises in the Wind
Kroeber, Theodora  Ishi, the Last of his Tribe
Kinsella, W. P.  Shoeless Joe
Kipling, Rudyard  Captains Courageous
Lee, Mildred  The People Therein
Lester, Julius  To Be a Slave
Lipsyte, Robert  The Contender
Magorian, Michelle  Good Night, Mr. Tom
Morison, Samuel Eliot  Christopher Columbus, Mariner
Naidoo, Beverly  Journey to Jo'Burg
Newton, Clarke  Famous Puerto Ricans
O'Dell, Scott  Sing Down the Moon
O'Neal, Zibby  The Language of Goldfish
Parks, Gordon   Choice of Weapons
Paterson, Katherine  Jip, His Story
Platt, Kim  The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear
Reiss, Johanna  The Upstairs Room
Sanders, Dori  Clover
Sharpe, Mitchell  It Is I, Sea Gull or Valentine Tersshkova
Sleator, William  Into The Dream
Taylor, Theodore  The Cay
Thomas, Joyce C.  A Gathering of Flowers
Thomas, Piri  Down These Mean Streets
Verne, Jules  Around the World in Eighty Days
Watkins, Yoko  So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Wells, H. G.  The War of the Worlds
Wong, Jade Snow  Fifth Chinese Daughter
Yep, Laurence  Child of the Owl or Sweetwater
Zindel, Paul The Pigman's Legacy

NOTES ON SUMMER READING

Use this format for recording your notes on each of the five books you read this summer.

Title:

Author:

Setting:

Major Characters: 

Plot Summary (limited to three sentences):

Theme: 

Personal Reaction/Evaluation:

 


 


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