I homeschool my 13-year-old daughter and her two good friends in English. This is what I handed them on the last day of school:
SUMMER READING INVITATION
I know you’ve just finished the hardest year of your schooling to date, and your work and obligations are technically over until after Labor Day. However, summer is a wonderful time to read, and there are so very many good books out there! I invite each of you to select and read one book from Column A and one book from Column B over the next three months. And to make it fair, I will, too. Enjoy!
Column A
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Column B
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Holes by Louis Sachar
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
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I finished Holes by Sachar last night. I don't have a great head for following twisty plots and making connections in made-up stories. I get bored with it. I'm more of a language, mood, inter-personal drama, and visual person, myself. I like the idea of Holes, but it leaves me with too many questions at the end. Huh? Who's related to whom? And how did these characters end up meeting each other when their ancestors had such a tangled history? Again, I like the idea of Holes, but it's too contrived for me to care about it. Kind of like a tall tale. Wonder what my eighth graders will think if they read it?
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