I hope you are enjoying the long weekend! Wednesday, 9/19, your independent reading books are due in class. Below is a list of Young Adult Literature options you can choose for your independent reading book. You can go to http://www.scholastic.com/home/ to research books that you might be interested in and check the reading level for each book. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at msmacchio141@gmail.com
See you on Wednesday!
-Ms. Macchio :)
YOUNG ADULT
LITERATURE OPTIONS
“Teen Issues ” (Outcast and Identity)
1. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
2.
When I Was a Puerto Rican by
Esmeralda Santiago
3. Forged by Fire by Sharon
Draper
4. Holes by Louis Sachar
5. The House on Mango
Street by Sandra Cisneros
6. Scorpions by Walter
Dean Myers
7.
Stargirl- Spinelli
8.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid -Kinney
Disability and Mental
Illnesses
- Joey Pigza Swallows a Key by Jack Gantos
- Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
- Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time -Haddon
Issues around Class and
Poverty
1. Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan
2. Asphalt
Angels by Ineke Holtwijk
3. Tyrell
by Coe Booth
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5.
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
6. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
7.
Buried Onions -Soto
Science Fiction, Mystery,
Horror, and Fantasy
- House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Hunger Games Trilogy-Collins
Race, Culture, Ethnicity
1. Born in Sin by Evelyn
Coleman
2. The Circuit by
Francesco Jimenez
3. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
5.
Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman
6.
A
Step from Heaven by An Na
Religion/Spirituality
- Habibi by Naomi Shihib Nye
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- Ms. Isabelle Cornell Herself by Carol Farley
Historical Fiction
- Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
- Fallen
Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Farwell
to Manzanar by Jeanne W. Houston and James
D. Houston
- Before
We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
- Book Thief –Zusak
- Night -Weisel
