Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009)
[Some of these books are used as class sets in our 7TH, 8TH and 9TH grade English classes. Others may be considered by our English department teachers to be too “young” for you, or otherwise inappropriate as homework for a junior high class.]
Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009)
A Tale of Two Cities
And Then There Were None
Animal Farm
Boxcar Children, any of the series
Bud, Not Buddy
Captain Underpants, any of the series
Charlotte’s Web
Diary of Anne Frank
Getting Away with Murder
Goosebumps, any of the series
Great Brain, any of the series
Great Gilly Hopkins
Gregor the Overlander (#1 and #2)
Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009), cont.
Harriet the Spy
Holes
Ice Story
Invention of Hugo Cabret
Mississippi Trial 1955
Phineas Gage
Regarding the Fountain
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Romeo and Juliet
Stand Tall
Tom Sawyer
The Giver
The Outsiders
The Whipping Boy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Words By Heart
Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009), cont.
Authors:
Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary
Katherine Patterson (most)
R.L. Stein (all)
Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009), cont.
Literature Class books:
Stargirl
Witness
Esperanza Rising
Road to Memphis
Princess Bride
Gathering Blue
Pudd’n Head Wilson
Trouble Don’t Last
Keylock Man
Storyteller’s Daughter
Hoot
Surviving the Applewhites
The Dark is Rising
The Martian Chronicles
The Hobbit
Books Not Allowed for Class Book Assessments (for spring 2009), cont.
Also not accepted:
Any book that is too "young" for you, or too far below your lexile reading level (usually not more than 50 points below). Also, if you find a book is too difficult for you to comprehend, please abandon that book and find on you can understand. Have it approved by parent and teacher.
Books you read for reading skills or literature classes (or other classes), comic books, cartoon books, scriptures.
Please do not select books you have previously read.
The consequence for doing a book assessment on books “not allowed” will be a zero (no points) on the assignment.
Your teacher reserves the right to add or delete books on this list at her discretion.
Have your book approved by your teacher and parents before you start reading.
