Great Books for High School Readers*
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The list(s) below are not meant to be lists of "books you must read before you go to college", nor are they required reading for my class.  Simply, these are books that high school students have enjoyed -- some of them are funny, some deep.  The lists contain groupings of books on a common subject or topic.  I will try to add  new lists when I can. 

Read them if they sound interesting to you; read them if you dare.  Some of the books contain mature content.  Your parents should be aware of and approve of what you are reading.
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Alvarez, Julia.  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Alvarez, Julia.  In the Time of the Butterflies.
Anaya, Rudolfo.  Bless Me, Ultima.**
Boyle, T.C.  Tortilla Curtain.
Burciaga, Jose Antonio.  Drink Cultura.
Castellanos, Rosario.  The Nine Guardians.**
Castillo, Ana.  So Far from God.
Cisneros, Sandra.  House on Mango Street.**
Cisneros, Sandra.  My Wicked, Wicked Ways.
Escandon, Maria Amparo.  Esperanza's Box of Saints.
Esquivel, Laura.  Like Water for Chocolate.**
Galeano, Eduardo.  Memory of Fire.
Galeano, Eduardo.  Open Veins of Latin America.
Galeano, Eduardo.  Soccer in Sun and Shadow.
Hernandez, Jaime.  The Death of Speedy.
Katzenberger, Elaine, ed.  First World Ha Ha Ha.
Kingsolver, Barbara.  Prodigal Summer.
Krich, John.  El Beisbol.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia.  One Hundred Years of Solitude.**
Neruda, Pable.  Selected Poems.
Nichols, John Treadwell.  Milagro Beanfield War
Rodriguez, Richard.  Hunger of Memory.
Rodriguez, Luis.  Always Running.
Santiago, Esmeralda.  When I Was Puerto Rican.
Soto, Gary.  Living Up the Street.
Straight, Susan.  Highwire Moon.
Tramble, Nichelle.  The Dying Ground
Traven, B.  The Jungle Novels (The Cotton Pickers, The Bridge in the Jungle, The General from the Jungle, The Rebellion of the Hanged).
Traven, B.  Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Valdez, Luis.  Los Vendidos.
Valdez, Luis.  Zoot Suit.
*The lists and book synopses are from Great Books for High School Kids, edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford.
**Books that Mrs. Wheaton has read.
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