Reading+Lists

=Reading list for Human Rights=

Overview
This is a supplementary reading list to complement Theme 5. We have a great selection of books for you, from mystery, adventure and historical to some of the latest contemporary fiction. Books that are also on the reading lists for High School have been marked by an asterisk (*).

Books have been organized according to the difficulty of the book. Level 3 is the most challenging level. We have included films that can serve as additional background and text. Before choosing a book we suggest that each student does a little research about the book so that they make sure it is appropriate for them both in reading level and interest. As education is a team effort, we would like to encourage parents to be a part of this process.

We want to remind students that you should be reading a variety of different genres and levels. Books at Level 1 have just as important a message as books at Level 3. For Level 3 non-fiction books, students might find certain chapters easier than others. It is okay to read 1 or 2 chapters within a book and to come back to the book when you are older.

Level 1 - Expanding (expanding vocabulary, ideas and concepts) Level 2 - Bridging (age appropriate language, some familiar concepts) Level 3 - Reaching (sophisticated vocabulary, making connections with new ideas, reaching beyond what you know and exploring new concepts)

FILM

 * [|Gandhi] (India)
 * [|Cry Freedom] (South Africa)
 * [|Remember The Titans] (USA, Civil Rights)

Level 1
//Farewell to Manzanar//, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston //Holes//, Louis Sacher //Last Summer with Maizon//, Jacqueline Woodson //The Liberation of Gabriel King//, K.L. Going //Maniac Magee//, Jerry Spinelli //The Night Journey//, Kathryn Lasky //The Stone Goddess//, Minfong Ho //When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit//, Judith Kerr //Sadako and the Thousand Cranes//, Eleanor Coerr

Level 2
//The Acorn People//, Ron Jones //Shattered//, Eric Walters //After the War//, Carol Matas //Among the Hidden// (Book 1 of the Shadow Children series), Margaret Peterson Haddix //Ask me no Questions//, Marina Budhos //Broken Song,// Kathryn Lasky //Biko//, Donald Wood //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time//, Mark Haddon //Danger Zone//, David Klass //The Ear, the Eye and the Arm//, Nancy Farmer //Eyes of the Emperor//, Graham Salisbury //[|Fire-Us: The Kindling]// (Book 1), Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher //The Freedom Writers Diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change// //themselves and the world around them//, Zlata Filipovic //The Girls,// Amy Goldman Koss //Jip: His Story//, Katherine Paterson //Journey of the Sparrows//, Fran Leeper Buss //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//, Maya Angelou //The Land//, Mildred Taylor //The Mississippi Trial//, Chris Crowe //Monkey Island//, Paula Fox //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry//, Mildred Taylor //The Scorpion//, Nancy Farmer //The Shimmershine Queens//, Camille Yarbrough //Slake’s Limbo//, Felice Holman //Somehow Tenderness Survives//, (collection of short stories set in Africa) //Stargirl//, Jerry Spinelli //Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Deathcamps//, Andrea Warren //The Wave//, Morton Rhue

Level 3
//Animal Farm,// George Orwell * //Anthem//, Ayn Rand //A Lesson Before Dying//, Ernest J. Gaines //Cry, the Beloved Country// (South Africa), Alan Paton //Fahrenheit 451//, Ray Bradbury * //Lord of the Flies//, William Golding * //Night//, Elie Wiesel * //The Power of One//, Bryce Courtenay //1984//, George Orwell *