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HYR Legend (Legend, Book 1) by Marie Lu
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HYR No Right Turn* by Terry Trueman
? *I am reading this book with a small group in one of our sections of English 10. The group is all boys, who don't usually like to read, but they are all gearheads and love this book.
It sounds like a great book for these guys! HNR No Right Turn. Probably won't, but I'm glad you found it for them.I quite liked Jackaby, but I'm also a fan of Sherlock Holmes, (not just Benedict Cumberbatch's 'Sherlock,' but all incarnations of the character) Doctor Who and stuff like that...
Reading is reading, have you tried graphic novels with these young men like Saints and Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
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HYR Game* by Walter Dean Myers
*I am reading this novel with a group of boys in a different section of English 10. No gearheads in that section, but a small group of dedicated basketball fans.
FYI, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher and Catherine Gilbert Murdock all write often about teens defined by their sports...HYR picking randomly Chris Crutcher's Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, nice because it's short stories...
?Ron Koertge has written poetry about a baseball mad boy
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For myself, I read fantasy, urban fantasy, scifi, and mysteries mostly or I read the various books that are part of the curriculum. We read some short stories in English 11 and those are often stories by the romantic writers such as Edgar Allan Poe. A sip from the The Cask of Amontillado?
HYR Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
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No, but it looks fun!HYR This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
? It's pretty great!
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HYR Frenchtown Summer* by Robert Cormier
?*I am in the middle of it. Its text is written as poetry and I am finding it very engaging.
Yes, I have. I went through a Robert Cormier phase some years back and read everything of his I could find. But I don't think I ever taught him, as I did Chris Crutcher, Walter Dean Myers and aLois McMaster Bujold novella.HYR Witness by Karen Hesse
? It's also a YA novel written in poetry.
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HYR The Winter Horses* by Philip Kerr
?*There is a small group in one of our English sections who is reading this book. The students are raving about how good it is.
HNR. I've never heard of The Winter Horses, it looks like one I'd like, thanks!HYR Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey
?It's a tiny little novel, as I remember it, about how King Arthur's knights got their great big horses, when Britain had only ponies.
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HYR God Went to Beauty School* by Cynthia Rylant
?*It is another book in which the text is written as poetry.
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HYR The Paladin Prophecy (The Paladin Prophecy, Book 1) by Mark Frost*
?Mark Frost was a co-creator of the Twin Peaks television series.
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HYR In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
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HNR In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, but I think I'd really like it ---in July or August. I have a rule that I don't read books set in the cold, when it's cold outside. It just makes it seem colder and lonelier and like rescue and warmth is less likely.HYR Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
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HYR Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
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No, I haven't. It's one of those I intend to read.HYR The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
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HYR Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, Book 1) by Joseph Delaney
HNR, but it looks like one I might like.HYR Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri
?It may be one your young readers might be interested in.
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HYR Stargirl (Stargirl, Book 1) by Jerry Spinelli
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Yes I HR, I really liked it, but so long ago that Goodreads doesn't know it, so I guess I need to reread it!HYR Define "Normal" by Julie Anne Peters
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HYR The Red Pyramid* (Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan?
*Based on the Egyptian pantheon.
HNR.HYR Temping Fate by Esther M. Friesner
?It's about teens who work as temps for the Fates, gods and other folks. Everybody needs a vacation sometimes. It's a hoot!
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HNR, but it sounds like something that I would read.
HYR Foundation* (Razorland, #0.5) by Ann Aguirre
*Background to the Razorland series.
HNR, but it looks like one I might like.HYR the Vorkosigan series that can start with Cordelia's Honor or The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
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HYR The Scarlet Letter* by Nathaniel Hawthorne
?*This is the current book in our English 11 class.
I've seen various movies based on it. Maybe I read it, when it was first out, but I need to reread it.HYR The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It was first published in 1850.
Think I read The House of the Seven Gables in high school.
HYR The Sound and the Fury* by William Faulkner
?*One of my favorite classics.
Oh yes, I liked this one by Tennessee Williams.HYR or seen A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
?*(Kathleen, I was kidding when I said I read
when it first came out.)
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Hey, didn't know if you were acquainted with any fangy members of society who may have assisted you with a longer than average life span.
A Doll's House is another of my all time favorite classics.
HYR The Canterbury Tales* by Geoffrey Chaucer
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I am certainly acquainted with certain extremely long-lived folks, but they are not acquainted with me. Nor am I of Duncan MacLeod's "Highlander" or Henry Morgan's "Forever" lines.I know the stories of The Canterbury Tales, but if I've read it, it was a very long time ago. So we'll call that a 'no.'
HYR Highlander: Zealot by Donna Lettow
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Yes! In high school and in the last ten or so years, too.HYR For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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HYR The Maze Runner* (Maze Runner, Book 1) by James Dashner
?*Recently saw the movie, but have not yet read the book.
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HYR Twilight (Twilight, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
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Yes, I did. After this series I started being a lot pickier about what I read, I think.HYR Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
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HYR The Casual Vacancy* by J.K. Rowling
?*I actually found it boring and quit have a few chapters. I loved the Harry Potter series and wish that she would have continued in the same universe. There were so many places in the same world that I would have liked to more fully explore.
HNR, on purpose. I didn't like Harry Potter until book #4 or maybe #3, so I didn't fell the need. Also, my husband who loves HP, didn't insist.HYR Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
?It won the National Book Award last year, plus other awards, it looks like. It's another YA or adult memoir told in verse. I think it'll be my next book after the one I'm reading now.
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The Miracle Worker* by William Gibson
?*I enjoy reading this play more than viewing the film version. It is part of the English 9 curriculum.
Yes, certainly in high school, but possibly not since. Have you looked to see if there's a more recent version of The Miracle Worker available? I'd be surprised if there's not.HYR The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Wendy Kesselman
? This is an update of the one I read and saw in high school.
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HYR Bronze Gods* (Apparatus Infernum, Book 1) by A.A. Aguirre
?*I just started it.
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