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VirginIslander · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan

Many of my advanced students are bored with ESL books they have been studying for years and my coworkers find English Literature like Dickens and Shakespeare too difficult. So, I'm going to order some of my favorite books from my childhood and teenage years.

What were you favorite books, elementary school to high school?

Here's my list so far. Please add to the list.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Bridge to Teribithia
Tuck Everlasting
The Hatchet
Sea of Dolphins
Indian in the Cupboard
Flowers for Algernon
White Fang
Call of the Wild
To kill a Mockingbird
Into the Wild
Catcher and the Rye
Brave New World
1984

Thanks

VI

VirginIslander · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan

Trivia. What famous English author did the computer just beep out?

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

It bleeped out Dickenson.

And I recommend Shel Silverstein books like Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.

Tokki1 · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:39 am Post subject:

Where the Wild Things Are

Then when I got older it was porn and Lord of the Rings, various fantasy.

Then Dostoevsky and existential angst in high school.

shantaram · Joined: 10 Apr 2007

Dickens?
D-I-C-K-E-N-S

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:04 am Post subject:

Hardy Boys! Nancy Drew! and one of my favs

I have an elementary school aged class (advanced Grade 6ers at the hagwon) studying Jack London short stories.

Adventure, animals, mystery, danger... the kids love it!

VirginIslander · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan

Van Islander

Jack London. He's great for children and graduate students. I reread many of his stories while I studying for the GRE's and came across a lot of GRE vocabularly.

formerflautist · Joined: 30 May 2006

Anything by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Ditto for Avi
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Newberry Award winner)
Sarah Plain and Tall
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Number the Stars
The Diary of Anne Frank
Little Women
Lisa's War and its sequel Jesper
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
The Princess Diaries books
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Anne of Green Gables
A Wrinkle in Time

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:49 am Post subject:

georgiadawg · Joined: 04 Dec 2004

Anybody remember "Choose Your Own Adventure" books? They were awesome!!

Mary-Jane · Joined: 22 Mar 2006

I really liked the 'Redwall' series by Brian Jacques when I was younger. I spotted them (albeit with horrible bookcovers) in the Coex mall bookstore. They're fantasy-adventure stories, maybe a bit too childish for kids over 14.

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

The Giver by Lois Lowry

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Maniac McGee
The Giving Tree
Summer of the Monkeys
Charlotte's Web

crsandus · Joined: 05 Oct 2004

I loved reading the Hardy Boys, Rifles for Watie, and The Laura Ingalls books (I know, kind of girly but I really like historic fiction books when I was in elementary school). I'm not sure these books (other than the Hardy Boys) would be good for ESL lessons since the dialogues used in historic fiction differ from what we normally use today.

I also read Hatchet, Doctor Doolittle, Greek mythology books, and bible story books a bunch of times. I swear I know the book of Ruth by heart. (I won't go into the obvious bible/realistic fiction angle in this post).

edit: (I have a feeling I'll be adding to my list every 15 minutes or so)

Beverly Clearly books
Reading Rainbow program books
Indian in the Cupboard series
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

Dune and Ender's Game.