October
28
ELA 20 Independent Novel Reading – Book Options
In the past for ELA 20, we’ve read one novel together as a class – To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a great story and young readers become easily attached to the one supportive character, Boo Radley, but there are so many great books to choose from and such diverse interests, so last year we developed a collection of book titles that would fit our course theme of “transition from youth to adolescence”.
These are the book options you can choose from this year and, if you know of another title that would fit, run it by me and we could maybe add it to this growing list!
Each selection is linked to a novel summary page that includes other reviews and includes the visual summary as well.
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Husseini) – the female story
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Husseini) – the male story
- Medicine Walk (Richard Wagamese) – Canadian text
- My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
- The Book of Negros (Lawrence Hill) – Canadian text
- The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
- An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)
- The Beginning of Everything (Robyn Schneider)
- Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell)
- Throwaway Daughter (Ting-Xing Ye) – Canadian text
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
- Shine (Lauren Myracle)
- The Glass Castle
- April Raintree
- A Quality of Light
- The Pact
- All the Bright Places
- Educated
- From the Ashes (Sask. author)
- Beartown
- Born a Crime -Trevor Noah (nonfiction)
- Is Everyone Hanging out Without me? – Mindy Kaling (nonfiction)
- Lion – based on a true story
- Ready Player One -sci fi
- Memoirs of a Geisha
