Re: Need suggestions for novels

["Karen Sinning" <ksinning1@comcast.net>]

How about To Kill a Mockingbird?  Or Karen Hesse's Witness?
Karen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen McGill" <gr7rm14@yahoo.com>
To: <middle-lit@interversity.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:36 PM
Subject: [middle-lit] Need suggestions for novels


> This year, I'll be teaching 8th grade reading and
> language arts.  The social studies teacher and I would
> like to coordinate reading with the American history
> units.  We have books for every major unit except the
> 1920's and the 1930's.  I need titles and/or a web
> address where I might find titles by theme or
> historical period.
>
> The novels we have already are
>
> The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
> My Brother Sam Is Dead
> Slave Dancer
> Across Five Aprils
> The Devil's Arithmetic
> Anne Frank (the play)
> The Outsiders
> The Giver 
>
> Any other suggestions?  These are average-to-above
> students in a private school.  I really need books
> that take place in the 1920's and 1930's.  Thanks.
>
> Karen in Ohio
>
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