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Okay, I thought I would share some of the books that I've read in school and what I think and rate them. Let me know if you've read any of these. Now I'm going to start with 7th grade because I can't remember what we read before then and I only know what I've read since then because we had to start buying the books ourselves then.

7th Grade

- Something Upstairs by Avi -- 5 out of 5

- Tangerine by Edward Bloor -- 4 out of 5

- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry -- 1 out of 5

8th Grade

- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens -- 4 out of 5

- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton -- 4.5 out of 5

- Anne Frank (the play version) -- 4.5 out of 5

- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix -- 4 out of 5

9th Grade

- The Giver by Lois Lowry -- 4 out of 5

- Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare -- 1 out of 5

- After the First Death by Robert Cormier -- 2.5 out of 5

- Chew On This by Eric Schlosser and Charles wilson -- 1 out of 5

10th Grade

- Night by Elie wiesel -- 5 out of 5

- The Pearl by John Steinbeck -- 1 out of 5

- I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier -- 4 out of 5

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -- 4 out of 5

- Julius Caesar by Shakespeare -- 3 out of 5

11th Grade

- Ordinary People by Judith Guest -- 3 out of 5

- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck -- 1 out of 5

- The Crucible by Arthur Miller -- 4 out of 5

- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain -- 3 out of 5

- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- 3 out 5

- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -- 5 out of 5

12th Grade

Of course I haven't read all of these yet because I'm still doing this school year, but here are the books we are reading. The ones with ratings are the ones we've read at this point in time of me typing this, by the time I post this I'll probably have read more.

- 1984 by George Orwell -- 3.75 out of 5

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey -- 4 out of 5

- Bewulf by Unknown -- 4.5 out of 5

- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer -- 3 out of 5

- Mythology: Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton -- 4.5 out of 5

- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

- Hamlet by Shakespeare

- Antigone by Sophocles

- Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck

- Beloved by Toni Morrison

- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom





Yeah, I'm taking AP English Literature this year that's why there's about 3 times the amount of books/plays for my senior year compared to any other year.

So which of these have you read? For school? For fun? what would you rate them compared to mine?

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