Independent Reading Assignment #4
For the next Independent Reading Assignment, you will be reading a nonfiction book. Choose from the list below or talk with me if you have a nonfiction book you'd like to read that is not on the list. After completing the book, answer the following questions in a 2-3 page essay:
Would you recommend this book to another 7th or 8th grade reader? Why or why not? What elements were the most/least successful (voice, plot development, character, humor, suspense, etc)?
Due Tuesday, March 3rd
Albrecht, Kathy The Lost Pet Detective
Bergreen, Laurence Over the Edge of the World
Binney, Marcus The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII
Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights
Bryson, Bill A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Buck, Rinker Flight of Passage
Capote, Truman In Cold Blood
Chang, Jeff Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Croke, Vicki The Lady and the Panda
Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons go to Birmingham
Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed
Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl
Gleik, James Isaac Newton
Greenblatt, Stephen Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Hakakian, Roya Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Hopkinson, Deborah Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York
Kalush, William The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air
Larson, Erik The Devil in the White City
Mealer, Bryan All Things Must Fight to Live
Montgomery, Sy The Good Good Pig
Nuzum, Erik Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America
Pollan, Michael The Botany of Desire
Ralston, Aron Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Roach, Mary Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Rybczynski, Witold One Good Turn: The Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Salzman, Mark True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year in Juvenile Hall
Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Sullivan, Robert Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Traig, Jennifer Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
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Hi Tom! I was wondering if I could use " Walking with the wind" by John Lewis for my independant reading project #4. It is a true story about a young man growing up in the South and the Civil Rights Movement.
Can I read Pele's autobiography?
Tom can i read the mascot. It is by mark kurzem. It is about a child who is jewish and his parents are killed by a patrol of Nazis. After they are killed they take the boy not knowing that he is jewish and raise him as their mascot.
Do you ever answer questions on the blog?
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