Holly Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 What are your favorite novella length books for high school (or even short stories)? I'd like to add a couple shorter novels for DD's 9th grade year. Quote
Penguin Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 One of my favorites is Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). I have it on my son's reading list. Quote
plansrme Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 Heart of Darkness. I just read this again for the first time in 20 years. I liked it a lot better this time. It was bound with a couple of other of Joseph Conrad's novellas that I also enjoyed: The Secret Sharer and Amy Foster. A boy probably wouldn't enjoy Amy Foster, but The Secret Sharer might appeal--it was quite suspenseful. Quote
Carol in Cal. Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 "The Moon Is Down" by Steinbeck. Awesome book with lots to discuss about what it is like to live in a free society. Quote
Corraleno Posted February 19, 2016 Posted February 19, 2016 The reading list for this Teaching Co course, which covers nearly three dozen novellas, might spark some ideas. Quote
Lori D. Posted February 20, 2016 Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) novellas good for 9th grade: Animal Farm (Orwell) The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) The Pearl (Steinbeck) Call of the Wild (London) A Christmas Carol (Dickens) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) The Invisible Man (Wells) Farmer Giles of Ham (Tolkien) The Little Prince (de Saint-Exupery) Murder on the Orient Express (Christie) you might also consider counting some short YA novels as novellas: The Giver (Lowry) Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt) The King's Fifth (O'Dell) The Bronze Bow (Speare) I Am David (Holm) The Great and Terrible Quest (Lovett) good short stories for 9th grade: The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs) Rikki Tikki Tavi (Kipling) The Open Window (Saki) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) Story Without an End (Twain) The Red-Headed League (Doyle) A Scandal in Bohemia (Doyle) The Lady or the Tiger (Stocken) -- the famous first "you decide" story ending The Most Dangerous Game (Connell) Lamb to the Slaughter (Dahl) There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury) A Sound of Thunder (Bradbury) The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe) The Ransom of Red Chief (Henry) The Open Window (Saki) a Wooster and Jeeves short story (PG Wodehouse) Flowers for Algernon (Keyes) Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Crane) Lamb to the Slaughter (Dahl) The Happy Prince (Wilde) The Necklace (de Maupassant) Edited February 20, 2016 by Lori D. 1 Quote
Holly Posted February 20, 2016 Author Posted February 20, 2016 These all look great! I tried a few google searches, but didn't quite come up with what I wanted. Quite a few of these I've never even heard of, so I think I'll be busy reading through some of these myself! Quote
TN Mama Posted February 22, 2016 Posted February 22, 2016 This year for 9th grade, dd is reading the novellas Animal Farm & The Pearl. Short stories she's reading include Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Edgar Allen Poe, The Bet - Anton Chekhov, Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving, and The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe. Quote
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