For some reason I decided to try and track down some of the books I read in and out of school from middle school on. Stuff like The Pigman, My Side of the Mountain, A Separate Peace, etc. A lot of it really holds up well. Some of it does not.
Remind me of some other books of this type that may be worth going back over.
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Have you ever read Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep?
A young chinese immigrant moves to San Francisco and searches for his kite-making father, if I remember correctly. I had to read it in 8th grade and I still vaguely remember some of the passages that described the immigrant experience in America.
Actually, I couldn't remember the title for the life of me until recently. For some reason I remembered it to be some Pearl Buck novel but some clever googling proved me wrong.
Also Hatchet and The Giver are most certainly young adult classics.
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Hatchet! That's one title I couldn't remember.
Funny thing, I'm willing to bet every American on RM in their 20's remembers reading that book. When I peruse the books that the junior high kids at my school are reading, a Gary Paulsen novel shows up...but none of them have ever heard of Hatchet. It's strange. They read The River, which I think has something to do with Hatchet...but they have never heard of Hatchet.
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bart d. wrote:
Hatchet! That's one title I couldn't remember.
Funny thing, I'm willing to bet every American on RM in their 20's remembers reading that book. When I peruse the books that the junior high kids at my school are reading, a Gary Paulsen novel shows up...but none of them have ever heard of Hatchet. It's strange. They read The River, which I think has something to do with Hatchet...but they have never heard of Hatchet.
the river is supposed to be a sequel. he goes back to the area he crashed at to recreate the experience for research or something. it wasn't nearly as good
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Haha, Redwall. I read all of those books.
One of my favorites was this book called Death Walk (or Death Watch, something like that) about this dude who witnesses a hunting trip gone wrong and then tries to survive as the hunter tracks him down. Great story.
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