Kaitlyn W.
5-21-09
8 Green
“Favorite Books”
6. Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
Rosanna came to stay with her widowed sister and is best friends with her cousin Lizzie, but when the Civil War breaks out Rosanna, a true supporter of the south at the time, is swept up in the emotion and her love for a confederate officer. She leaves to go back to the south and along with her, Lizzie’s older brother and father leave to fight for the union cause. It will take one of the bloodiest battles ever fought to bring them back together again.
5. Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer with her Aunt Dulcie and her cousin in Maine Ali and her cousin are met by a girl or should I say ghost named Sissy who claims that their mothers are the reason she is dead.
4. The Ear. The Eye, the Arm by Nancy Farmer
After General Matsika’s children are kidnapped Ear, Eye, and Arm are hired to find them. The children are put in many hands from the She Elephant to the Masks, with whom the children’s only fate would most likely be death or becoming a Mask themselves. Will Ear, Eye, and Arm be able to save them or will they be too late?
3. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton- Jackson
This is an autobiographical story of Elli l. Friedmann telling the story of her family’s, a Jewish family living in Nazi-occupied Hungary, horrible account in the Holocaust and how they survived. Though treated cruelly and separated from her family Elli, her mother, and older brother, Bubi, manage to come out of the Holocaust alive, which unfortunately many Jews were unable to do.
2. Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
Living in a world where everyone is pretty at one point may sound great, but it really isn’t. Especially when Tally Youngblood, who has had her surgery to become ‘pretty’ put on delay, finds out that during the surgery your body is not only is your body tampered with, but so is your brain.
1.13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Shortly after his crush, Hannah Baker, commits suicide Clay Jensen receives a box containing 13 cassette tapes. On the tapes is Hannah telling the 13 reasons why she decided to end her life and here’s the catch- Everyone who receives the tapes has a part in her story and reasoning and will have to listen in order to be able to pass it on to the next person in line. If they don’t somebody has a second supply of the tapes and will release them to the public. This book, though fictional, shows the horrible things that bullying, horrible accidents, and unforgettable mistakes can drive someone to do.
*Honorable Mentions- To Kill a Mockingbird and Number the Stars
5-21-09
8 Green
“Favorite Books”
6. Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
Rosanna came to stay with her widowed sister and is best friends with her cousin Lizzie, but when the Civil War breaks out Rosanna, a true supporter of the south at the time, is swept up in the emotion and her love for a confederate officer. She leaves to go back to the south and along with her, Lizzie’s older brother and father leave to fight for the union cause. It will take one of the bloodiest battles ever fought to bring them back together again.
5. Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer with her Aunt Dulcie and her cousin in Maine Ali and her cousin are met by a girl or should I say ghost named Sissy who claims that their mothers are the reason she is dead.
4. The Ear. The Eye, the Arm by Nancy Farmer
After General Matsika’s children are kidnapped Ear, Eye, and Arm are hired to find them. The children are put in many hands from the She Elephant to the Masks, with whom the children’s only fate would most likely be death or becoming a Mask themselves. Will Ear, Eye, and Arm be able to save them or will they be too late?
3. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton- Jackson
This is an autobiographical story of Elli l. Friedmann telling the story of her family’s, a Jewish family living in Nazi-occupied Hungary, horrible account in the Holocaust and how they survived. Though treated cruelly and separated from her family Elli, her mother, and older brother, Bubi, manage to come out of the Holocaust alive, which unfortunately many Jews were unable to do.
2. Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
Living in a world where everyone is pretty at one point may sound great, but it really isn’t. Especially when Tally Youngblood, who has had her surgery to become ‘pretty’ put on delay, finds out that during the surgery your body is not only is your body tampered with, but so is your brain.
1.13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Shortly after his crush, Hannah Baker, commits suicide Clay Jensen receives a box containing 13 cassette tapes. On the tapes is Hannah telling the 13 reasons why she decided to end her life and here’s the catch- Everyone who receives the tapes has a part in her story and reasoning and will have to listen in order to be able to pass it on to the next person in line. If they don’t somebody has a second supply of the tapes and will release them to the public. This book, though fictional, shows the horrible things that bullying, horrible accidents, and unforgettable mistakes can drive someone to do.
*Honorable Mentions- To Kill a Mockingbird and Number the Stars
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