Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Summer Reading List

I got my reading list for the Adolescent Lit class I'm taking during the second half of the summer.  I have to read a different book for every class period (3x per week) but most of the books look good so I'm not unhappy.  In fact, I like having a stack of books just waiting to be read.

Go Ask Alice- Sparks
Walk Two Moons – Creech
Out of the Dust – Hesse
Nightjohn – Paulson
Watsons Go to Birmingham – Curtis
Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
Graveyard Book – Gaiman
any Harry Potter book
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World – Armstrong
Hitler Youth – Bartoletti
Touching Spirit Bear – Michaelsen
Breathing Underwater – Flinn
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes – Crutcher
Stuck in Neutral – Trueman
American Born Chinese – Yang
Higher Power of Lucky- Patron
Seedfolk – Fleishman
Rules – Lord
Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
Forever – Blume

I've read 7 of these books before.  I decided to start with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (since it's easily the longest book on the list) and I'm loving it.  What a great book series!  Fahrenheit 451 is another I'm looking forward to re-reading.  And the third Hunger Games book comes out in August, which I will definitely make time for.   I'm least excited about Forever by Judy Blume.  I read it in middle school, where it was known for having the "good" scenes dog-eared for easy reference.  And by "good" I mean "inappropriate for a twelve-year-old."

How about you?  What are you planning on reading this summer?  Have any fond (or not so fond) memories of any of the books on the list?

5 comments:

ashley coslett said...

Emily!
are you taking this from Kay Smith? she's amazing! i took this class a few years ago, and the reading load is a little hefty but not heavy, if that makes sense. it was such a fun class for me to take... it's like jumping back to junior high and high school all over again. haha. i think you will love this!

Emily said...

Yeah, it's Kay Smith. I'm really looking forward to it - I love reading and having an excuse to buy a dozen books. :) Was there a lot of writing, i.e. papers and stuff? A final exam?

Dad said...

I tried doing Catcher in the Rye and found it just irritating, though Dennis Miller loved it so much that one of his boys are named Holden. I love reading lists even if they aren't books I'd read. Last time we did this I read F 451 and loved it.

ashley said...

kay is amazing and doesnt really believe in final exams, only final projects. you basically have to do one project per book, which gets a little hectic. i dont know if that will be the case for a summer class though. Projects consist of anything your heart desires that would represent the book you read. its awesome! but not so awesome if you're not much of a "hands on" type of gal.

Sarah S said...

Didn't like the Graveyard Book. In fact, I still don't get why it won the Newbury. Of course, this year's Newbury is just as weird. Most of these books I have never heard of. Tell me which ones are good and I'll read them.