My teacher friend is getting people to buy books for her students. I got the following information for my student and I’d love some recs!
My friend sent:
“She’s a poet and a reader. She loves memoirs and dramatic realistic fiction, in verse or graphic novels.”
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Poet X! There are also lots of great graphic memoirs for middle schoolers–Christina Soontornvat’s The Tryout, Dan Santat’s new book, Shannon Hale’s Real Friends trilogy, El Deafo, The Magic Fish, Where Stars Are Scattered, Honor Girl
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Edit to add Alfred Noyes if they’re into poetry.
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. It’s short and she is a poet, so there’s beautiful writing. It deals with the experiences of childhood cancer and the removal of half her jaw that disfigured her face. This is the real life experience that the book Wonder makes treacle. Many school use it as part of their curriculum.
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (though it’s narrated by Death, which is a bit unrealistic I guess, but the reader is not constantly reminded of that)
Diary of Anne Frank
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (though that might be on the curriculum anyways)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at that age.
Gerald Durrell: my Family and other Animals
Malala Yousoufzai: I Am Malala
Akala: Natives – Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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Sherman Alexie: the Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
Mark Haddon: the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
I really enjoyed the biographies of Annie Oakley and Helen Keller.
i think we read anne franks diary in 8th grade! harrowing read obviously