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book recommendations for middle schoolers please

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cateyemm
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book recommendations for middle schoolers please

My mom has to purchase a book for all the kids in her law club that she mentors. Most of them don't really even own many books. In the past, she did To Kill a Mockingbird and the Constitution. It needs to be $8 since she basically ends up paying for it herself.
Any suggestions?
TIA

Posted 11/27/12 3:48 PM
 

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Inherit the Wind...........great book. Teacher was on trial for teaching evolution. Such a good book, one of my favs from school. Chat Icon

Posted 11/27/12 4:15 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

A Time to Kill by John Grisham. He also writes a series for younger reads, Theodore Boone, that might be good.

Posted 11/27/12 4:48 PM
 

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Posted by Bluechristmas

A Time to Kill by John Grisham. He also writes a series for younger reads, Theodore Boone, that might be good.



they did theodore boone last year
thanks!

Posted 11/27/12 5:10 PM
 

cateyemm
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Posted by Hofstra26

Inherit the Wind...........great book. Teacher was on trial for teaching evolution. Such a good book, one of my favs from school. Chat Icon


do you think that will be too advanced for them? they are from very low income families, although very bright, they dont have the opportunities and family to read with them like, say, I did growing up.
thanks

Posted 11/27/12 5:11 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

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Posted by Hofstra26

Inherit the Wind...........great book. Teacher was on trial for teaching evolution. Such a good book, one of my favs from school. Chat Icon


do you think that will be too advanced for them? they are from very low income families, although very bright, they dont have the opportunities and family to read with them like, say, I did growing up.
thanks



Probably no more difficult than To Kill A Mockingbird........although its been a long time since I read it so I can't say for sure. I think I read it around 8th grade.

Posted 11/27/12 6:40 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

The Outsiders

Posted 11/27/12 9:07 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

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The Outsiders



I used to teach in an inner city middle school and my students really liked The Outsiders. And it's paperback, which helps money-wise.

Other books my kids have liked, all in paperback:
The Giver by Lois Lowry (though there are some disturbing and controversial aspects to this book, it's thought-provoking and well-written.)

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis- Depression-era historical fiction, but it's almost an adventure story, and Bud is a great character. (He also wrote The Watsons Go To Birmingham, which I never read, but many of my kids read it after Bud, Not Buddy, and liked it.)

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti- not sure if this is in paperback but it should be- it's about a 17 year old who circulated anti-Hitler newsletters and was executed. Really interesting and sad story.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko- about a kid in the 1930s who goes to live on Alcatraz with his dad, a prison guard. Lots of great characters, including the narrator's sister, who had autism during a time when it wasn't called autism.

Posted 11/28/12 10:03 AM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

Posted by MrsProfessor

Posted by firsttimer

The Outsiders



I used to teach in an inner city middle school and my students really liked The Outsiders. And it's paperback, which helps money-wise.

Other books my kids have liked, all in paperback:
The Giver by Lois Lowry (though there are some disturbing and controversial aspects to this book, it's thought-provoking and well-written.)

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis- Depression-era historical fiction, but it's almost an adventure story, and Bud is a great character. (He also wrote The Watsons Go To Birmingham, which I never read, but many of my kids read it after Bud, Not Buddy, and liked it.)

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti- not sure if this is in paperback but it should be- it's about a 17 year old who circulated anti-Hitler newsletters and was executed. Really interesting and sad story.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko- about a kid in the 1930s who goes to live on Alcatraz with his dad, a prison guard. Lots of great characters, including the narrator's sister, who had autism during a time when it wasn't called autism.




I LOOOOOOVE "The Giver". Phenomenal book and really lends itself to some interesting discussions. I read it with my 5th graders one year and they loved it. Great book!

Posted 11/28/12 2:32 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

Robbie has enjoyed most of these.. others are on his 'to read' list this year. He is in Middle School.


A Ring of Endless Light or The by Madeline L'Engle
Carlos is Gonna Get It by Kevin Emerson
A Wrinkle In Time - Madeline L'Engle
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Shane by Jack Schaefer
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Wizard of EarthSea by Ursula LeGuin
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
His Dark Materials by Phlllip Pullman
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Power - Patrick Carman
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier

Posted 11/28/12 2:46 PM
 

cateyemm
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great recommendations, thank you everyone!

Posted 11/28/12 6:46 PM
 

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Re: book recommendations for middle schoolers please

Phantom Tollbooth one of my FAVORITE books from middle school years.

Posted 11/28/12 7:54 PM
 

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Posted by Kris

Phantom Tollbooth one of my FAVORITE books from middle school years.



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