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"Kindred" by Octavia E Butler
Julia, Kindred is a perfect book for this prompt! great choice!
Books, Brews & Booze wrote: "With the Fire on High and The Phantom Tollbooth"Good choices. I actually read the second one in school, but I don't think it's widely read in them.
Any Jane Austen or Bronte. They seem to be disappearing from schools
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
If you're looking for non-fiction, I would 100% recommend Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic and Respect by Mick WestLoved this book. It explains how people start believing conspiracy theories and gives tactics for talking to friends and loved ones who have fallen down a rabbit hole. I wish more people would read it.
Rachel wrote: "Any Jane Austen or Bronte. They seem to be disappearing from schools"So true.
Maniac Magee by Jerry SpinelliRedwall by Brian Jacques
Both are for youth maybe grades 6-9.
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Julia wrote: ""Kindred" by Octavia E Butler"
Unfortunately I already read this last year :( but totally agreed, it is a great book.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. This may be read in school but wasn't when I attended.
Books, Brews & Booze wrote: "With the Fire on High and The Phantom Tollbooth"I agree so hard with the Phantom Tollbooth. It's on my list to re-read for this challenge! It fits a couple of prompts; this one and #7, an Author with 1 published book :)
Kristen wrote: "Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic and Respect by Mick WestLoved this book. It explains how people start believing conspiracy theories and gives tactic..."
I am adding this to my read for this prompt! Thanks for the suggestion, I was struggling with what to do for this one.
I read A Soldier's Sketchbook: The illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn - by John Wilson. It is about an 18-year-old who joined the Canadian military and was sent overseas. His sketches of the war are amazing. This book would be good for history or art.
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAmazing mysteries. Gives a look into history.
Completion Post:Just finished reading: "America Is in the Heart" by Carlos Bulosan (★★★★☆), is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Filipino American immigrant poet, fiction writer, short story teller, and activist, Carlos Bulosan. My North American education was rather Euro-centric with the month of February dedicated to Black History. Very little, if any, was spent on East-Asian culture, which is the main reason I thought this book should be read, if not taught.
Bulosan's narrative is an emotionally and esthetically true account of the immigration, spiritual and physical, of the pinoy, the young Filipino with all his village innocence, focused on an America, which, always promised more than it was willing to give. It is the quintessential experience of the pinoy migrant worker in fisheries and fields, up and down the western coast of these United States.
I picked a slightly different approach to the topic that I felt was a book to read in school. This book addresses how people with disabilities are treated by others. This was a great read and I can highly recommend it.
Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcawhttps://titlesurfingwithtraci.blogspo...
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Traci wrote: "I picked a slightly different approach to the topic that I felt was a book to read in school. This book addresses how people with disabilities are treated by others. This was a great read and I can..."I read "Funny you don't look autistic" this year - it was a great summary of a man with autism who is working as a stand up comedian. Interesting and educational.
For me, “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gets the nod. Its portrayal of the absurdity and brutality of communist Russia is stark, educational, eye-opening, and unforgettable.
Dig by A.S. Kinghttps://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021...
This teen novel has so many things to discuss, it would be a fantastic discussion book in high schools.
Sadie Sprocket Builds a RocketIt's a kid's book promoting girls in STEM. I got it as an Amazon Prime First Reads book in January, so it's a recent release. It's a picture book, so it wouldn't be added to the curriculum the way a YA book might, but it would be a nice selection for story-time.
Passing by Nella LarsenThis would be a fabulous addition to any high school reading list. It's short enough to fit into any syllabus (I read it in an evening) but filled with enough complexity and ambiguity to form a lesson series. The prose is easily digestible, but the questions less so. There is plenty of allusion to real people and places of the time period (the Harlem Renaissance) and as a book about race, written by a POC woman, it would fill a gap in many reading lists still populated primarily by white men.
Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing
This is a really interesting look at work being done to revive First Nation culture. It shows how it differs from the standard Western ideals of women.
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn would be an excellent addition to school curriculum (and it's epistolary!!!). The vocabulary is excellent, and the themes of government authority and religious zealotry are great for discussion, as is the way the language changes over the book as people had fewer and fewer letters to use and discovered that their communications were being read by the government.
I did The Freedom Writers diary for this!
Mystery Rider by Miralee Ferrell. I loved the message of accepting people regardless of physical appearance, and of helping people who need it, especially the elderly.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author. So powerful!!!
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn should definitely be read in school. A brutal exposure of the evils of communism.
The Passenger’s by John Marrs 1. things are not always as they appear at first glance
2 are we comfortable trusting technology?
Brianna wrote: "Books, Brews & Booze wrote: "With the Fire on High and The Phantom Tollbooth"I agree so hard with the Phantom Tollbooth. It's on my list to re-read for this challenge! ..."
I LOVE The Phantom Tollbooth! I still have my copy from when I was 7 or 8 (which was a LONG time ago). Read it to my kids and still loved it, which is the sign of a good kids book — if both generations can get something out of it.
The Decameron Project by New York Times
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (other topics)How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (other topics)
The Phantom Tollbooth (other topics)
With the Fire on High (other topics)
Mystery Rider (other topics)
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Nella Larsen (other topics)Mahogany L. Browne (other topics)
Elizabeth Acevedo (other topics)
Olivia Gatwood (other topics)
