Reading list

 

Independent reading

 

Mrs. Palafax and the Second Thief.

 

This booking is extremely interesting and has to do with and woman named Mrs. Pallaxfax who has to the figure out who the thief of some painting is. As you reader the author gives you clues to figure it out. Put the clue together and solved with Mrs. Pallaxfax. See if you’re just as surprise as I was when you find out who the thief really is.

 

A Fish Caught in Time

 

This exciting book will teach you a lot. This book is not about fish. But a totally different world that the author creates. If you had a imaginary mind that this book is for you. It is also very scientific. One who wants to learn and loves science fiction this book is for you.

 

 

Edgar Allan Poe

 

This book gets you to realized the pressure and lifestyle that Edgar Allen Poe. You can learn about his horror’s novel that he wrote. The reader can learn about his experience and realize why Edgar was the way he was. This book is a great biography of his life. If your have to learn about him and are interested about him you should read his book.

 

 

The baseball team

 

            The baseball team is an exciting book about the a team named the stinger. They have to mold together to created a team. All the brother is very good however they often lose because they don’t work together. Jim and John is the captain of the team and they are power struggle. They team is able to get to the championship, but they will have to work together to win.

 

Lord of the Flies.        

 

A punch of kids gets plane crash in the middle of the ocean. They swim onto land. There is a power struggle between Jack and Ralph. The author is trying to make a microseism for how life would be today if society was to be recreated. The evil comes out in the boys and instead of being a perfect society. Disaster occurs and the some boys have to fear for their lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  In class books

 

Oedipus Rex

By Sophociles 

New York: Random horse, INC. 1956    

 

This novel is about a Greek tragic. This sick family has some hard time and the word “Weird” and sick can’t even describe the events of the story. Read this short story and learn about a child he was told his fate and he tries to stop it. But by trying to stop it all comes true. The moral of the story is that you can’t stop fate!

 

The Crucible

By: Author Miller

Toronto: bantem Books, 1985   

 

The witch tale story will have your attention for the beginning to the end. It’s about a man name John proctor that has an affair with a girl name Abigail. John proctor tries to the end the affairs but Abigail has a different idea. She plans an getting revenge on him after she realizes that she can’t have him. Read and find out what plan she and her friends have to get back at John Proctor.

 

 

 

 

Catcher in the Rye

By:  Salniger, J. D.

Toronto: Bantem Books, 1951  

 

Holden Caulfeild is a young adult who believes that almost everything is phony. He is a trouble kid who is kicked out of 5 school. Then left for New York. He believes that when your a children everything is new and your so happy and when you grew up things become dull and you loss your “innocence”. When you read this books you might even think like him. At the end book your find out you hope you don’t though. 

 

 

Raisin in the sun

By: Hansberry, Rorraine

New York: Random Horse, Inc., 1994     

 

            This classic novel gets better and betters even time you read it. The Author, Rorraine, writes about a black man who lives in the city.  He wants to put his dad money into beer and make lots of money but his mother won’t let him. This black man wants to follow his dreams but they are crush. This story was influence by the poem written by Langston Hughes called Harlem.

 

Of Mice and Men

By: Steinbeck John

Toronto: Bantem Books, 1965

 

            This is a classic novel that was always influence by a poem.  The two main characters are George and Lennie. The author, Steinbeck, creates these characters through they action with each other. Lennie is a big guy but not smart.  George is small, but very smart. George takes care of Lennie as they work on farms. They have a dream to one day own their own spot of land. But Lennie does something that stops them and George has to make the decision weather he wants to live with his friend or follow his dreams. 

  

 

Julius Caesar

 By:  Shakespeare, William

New York: Pocket Books, 1948  

 

            This story is about fate. Unlike the story The Crucible Shakespeare suggest that one can change his or her fate. Julius Caesar is warned several times about being killed at the Ides of March. Julius doesn’t listen and is kill by the conspirators. The conspirators wanted to prevent Julius from becoming king. Brutus and Cassius were the leaders of the conspirator. After they kill Julius they is a battle at Pompeii were Mark Anthony and Caesar adpoted son will tried to seek revenge against Brutus and Cassius.