A few years ago I had a phase of Classics and other books on the High School reading lists since I never had to read any when I was in HS.
So I had an employee of mine who was in AP classes print me out a copy of her list from the last few years.
I proceeded to read these:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen ChBoskey
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Rebecca by Daphine Du Maurier
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
A Chiled Called it by Dave Pelzer
The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
A man Named Dave Pelzer
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (before the movies were around LOL)
The Lord of the Rings-Fellowship of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Something Wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury
1984 by George Orwell
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
I listed them in order to how I liked them, but I do have to tell you about the first few :)
Watership Down will forever remain one of my favorite books... This is a story told through the eyes of the rabbits in the story. Richard Adams created a whole world complete with a language and all! This is the kind of story that you will remember forever...
Flowers for Algernon was an amazing book of human nature, it tells the story in the form of a journal of a mentally retarded man who has brain surgery which makes him a genius, we feel for this character as if we truly know him. I give this book a 5 star rating!
The Perks of being a Wallflower was such a good book that I read it in 24 hours time! This story was in the form of letters from a 15 year old high school boy. You laughed and cried with him through all his ups and downs, it was almost impossible to put down till you've read the last page.
Every high schooler in America wants to know: How'd you get out of summer reading books in high school? Seriously, some of those are wonderful books. I read Tuck Everlasting in 7th grade, and I fell in love with it. Where the Red Fern Grows was one of my favorites from grade school....so sad, but I loved it. I'm glad to see The Scarlet Letter at the bottom, not one of my favorites either. At least you didn't read A Tale of Two Cities...it was the worst book I was ever forced to read in school.
ReplyDeleteHow did I get out of reading them?? hmmmmm you know I really have no idea! We read Edgar Allen Poe my freshman year and Greek Mythology my Jr. year and nothing at all the other 2 years!
ReplyDeleteI didn't understand Hawthorne at all... I tried to read The house of seven gables as well and got all most all the way through it before I got bored enough to give it up. I like the stories, it's just that I don't like the way they are told in the mind of the character rather then actual interaction of characters. It seems that Hawthorne does it to a bigger degree then other authors from his time.
I actually had A Tale of Two Cities on my list to read.. just never got to it. I attempted to make a Yahoo group to have some people to read the classics with and be able to discuss it as we go.. thought it would help with the understandings of some parts to have opinions, but no one joined the group so I closed it down after a few months.
ahh well I tried, I guess everyone would rather read the mysteries and love stories..