Category: book Nook
OK. Well, of course, this is like the worst books topic, but I wanted to see what were y'all's best ones, to make it even. *smiles*
Leilani
In college (which I'm not actually done with), mine were Catcher in the Rye, and Huck Finn. In high school, they were The Canterberry Tales, The Crucible, The Miracle Worker, the poems by Walt Wittman, and some other poems by Edgar Allan Poe. And in middle school, I liked The Raven, The Diary of Ann Frank, and The Phantom Tollbooth.
Leilani
I haven't found any books that I like in college yet. But in high school, I enjoyed "To Kill A Mockingbird." In middle school, I liked "The Outsiders" and in elementary, I liked "Fourth Grade Nothing." hahahahahah Oh and in Pre-school, my most favorite book was "The Three Billy goats Gruff" because we got to march on a makeshift bridge. hahahahaha That was awesome!!!
*sexy*
Maniac Magee, Number the Stars, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Walk Two Moons, To Kill a Mockingbird, And Then There Were None, The Giver, and Little Women.
Ooh. I forgot about Number the Stars. I don't remember if we had to read it though, but it was in my 4th or 5th grade reading book, so I read it anyway, as well as a lot of other short stories. I also liked The Kaye. And in summer school (I don't remember what years exactly but both ones I'm talking about were during my elementary years), they read us Zloteh's Diary (about a Serbian girl and her family during the war), and I liked it because we got to make a kind of cake from there. They had also read us the Indian in the Cupboard, which I also liked.
Leilani
You got to study The Phantom Tollbooth? I'm so jealous! For my part, I loved To Kill a Mockingbird before I ever studied it, and more afterwards, same with Pride and Prejudice. I never appreciated the various Shakespear plays and Greek dramas at the time, but I'm grateful in hindsight, since I'm sure I would never have got my hands on a braille copy otherwise, and I love having texts in hard-copy. I had a fantastic ancient history teacher, who arranged for me to get a few Mary Reynault novels and some Ovid translations in braille, which weren't technically on the syllabus but were just the most fantastic things... I did pretty well really.
That's cool that your teacher found those books for you. *smiles* I like reading in Braille most of the time also. Yeah, we had to read the Phantom Tollbooth, and watch some of the play, although I don't remember the movie as much as the book. I wasn't into Shakespeare all that much either, although in middle school we did read a shortened version of it, wich I think was somewhat changed to modern English (because they just changed the thou and thy and those things.) And that was pretty cool to read. And we had to change it again to reflect how we might tell the story, same story of course but in different words. So That was fun. *smiles*
Leilani
Lord Of The Rings is the only book I can remember
In high school my favorites have been Mockingbird, Red Sky at Morning, Huck Finn, The Crucible, The House on Mango Street, The Catcher in the Rye, some of the Poe poems and stories, and Julius Caesar. my friend and I actually wrote an adaptation of that setting in modern times with a bunch of supermodels. And in middle school I liked The Giver, The Miracle, and The Pigman which we got for summer reading one year. Oh yeah, and I got to read The Hobbit in one of my classes this year so that was pretty cool.
Lord of the Rings... hmmm. I loved it in highschool, but to write essays on it? just seems wrong somehow.
My favourite book I had to read was in my English class. It was called "love me blindly" and was about a boy who wanted a girlfriend and did even a real impossible and crazy thing for it - he acted blind because he saw a girl helping a blind boy. I love that book!!
My favorite book I read at school was ‘Tuesday’s with Marie” I barrowed it in the library and this book has lots of lessons in life that’s really valuable. This book inspired me to be someone better.
Oh that's supposed to be really good. The pre-college English class at my school has to read that.
Well my favorite book I had to read in high school was the story of my life by helen keller. I liked Julius Caesar more than I thought i would, but I don't like reading plays. I think the only time plays should be read is if you're going to act in it. I like the miracle worker too, but again, I prefer the movie to the play. I had to read the story of my life as assignment when I had to read biographies, and Julius caesar for a literature assignment. I remember the literature book I had was voices in literature.
wonderwoman
Helen Keller? I would like to read that, but we didn'T. Oh, another good book which I didn't read in my own school but during my exchange was in a french class, "a bag of bibles" by Josef Joffo.
Okay, I have a ton. strangely enough, I love everything we read except the giver, so here's the list, excluding elementry, since I didn't pay attention! Lol!
Well, there is a few, but yeah.
preschool and kindergarten
The little engine that could
I think of this very often. It gives me encouragement.
elementary
James And The Giant Peach By Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web By E. B. Wite
Shiloh
middle school
Where The Red Fern Grows
Anne Frank
Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry
High school
Great Expectations
To Kill A Mocking bird.