ProudGrandma Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I am still trying to put together a good book list for my daughter to read for school. I like to put things on the list from a variety of genres. She like realistic fiction and historical fiction. She also like mysteries. We don't like her to read about vampires or similar things. So PLEASE if you would help me delveop a good list I would greatly appreciate it. Oh, she reads at her age level or a little above. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Mine is reading The Book Thief today. The main character is a German girl during the Holocaust. Very well done. The movie that came out this year was pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Oh, that's not for school, but it's a good book anyway. For assigned lit she's reading Pilgrim's Progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 What period is she studying in history? We just choose from the books and plays and poems written in the time and place that we're studying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudGrandma Posted September 6, 2014 Author Share Posted September 6, 2014 revolutionary war time is what we are studying in History. But she is also interested in WWII....the people who lived through it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Have you read the WTM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidbits of Learning Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I have 8th and 9th grade dd's. My 8th grader is reading Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Yearling, Lord of the Flies, A Tale of 2 Cities, Romeo and Juliet, and The Diary of Ann Frank. She is doing 8th grade k12. My 9th grade dd is in public school Pre-Ap English. She is reading To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, and Of Mice and Men this term. Those are the assigned reading for the class and they have intense projects to go with the reading as well as Socratic discussion in class. She also reads other books for English but they are not assigned and they choose them. Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, The Hunger Games, Maximum Ride, and those type of novels are her free reads. Enders Game is also a good one. My dd13 still reads the Warriors Cat series and Seekers. My 8th graders choices for novels this year were To Kill a Mockingbird, A Separate Peace, Jane Eyre, The Yearling, Anne Frank, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Animal Farm, and Lord of the Flies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Yours might like The Hiding Place (about Corrie Ten Boom and the Holocaust). Mine had to read several books for school this summer (entering high school), including A History of The World in 6 Glasses Funny in Farsi A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier She's also just about to read the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM-MAMA Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 ... for school right now she's has these ... Girl with a Pearl Earring The Sound of Wild Snail Eating The Celtic Fairy Tales ... not sure what else might be stacked by her bed, on her desk, tucked in to her totes as her own reading selections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 For revolutionary times DD will read Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Common Sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 For school she's reading The Iliad. For fun she's reading Hollow City (second in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 For fun, some of the girls' favorites are: The Fault in Our Stars Life as We Knew It The Divergent Series Harry Potter The Maze Runner Maximum Ride For school this year they are reading a lot of Shakespeare, The Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and whatever else I can throw in there if they get through that list. *I don't know what you are comfortable with your 14 year old reading, so some of those books may be more mature than you'd like. For free reading I don't really censor much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 The Mortal Instruments and Tom Sawyer Selected chapters of Genesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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