What is one book you think everyone should read before they turn 16?
For July 19th: What is one book you think everyone should read before they turn 16?
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For July 19th: What is one book you think everyone should read before they turn 16?
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
This is the first one to pop into my head too ?
I still have never read this- I often wonder why…
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Outsiders
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
Barbara, I am curious how you will use all this information you are collecting from the group? Do tell, I’m curious.
These are just questions I got from an Amazon Reading Challenge several years ago….I’ll just use the answers to add to my TBR list!
@Barbara I am enjoying your questions….
@Jill me too
@Jill They’ll go to the end of July–
The hate u give
Animal Farm
It happened to Nancy.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bible
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Jane Eyre. A tree grows in Brooklyn.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I read it after high school but I wish I’d read it sooner.
The Diary of Ann Frank
Go ask Alice… But they should read it AT 16.
If Warren Buffett was in this group, he would say Benjamin Graham’s Intelligent Investor.
Nothing wrong with that, maybe then they wouldn’t spend money on things they will only want for a moment or just to impress others.
Arthur Ashe memoir, Days of Grace. His perspective on overcoming obstacles and facing death with infinite composure. Helps the young realize there is bigger drama than SATs and breakups but there is a way to face it gracefully.
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare.
You are my book soulmate! ?
I’m not sure I think there’s a timeline to reading… I think the books come to you when you are ready for them…
Go Ask Alice
Anne Frank
sophie’s world by justin gardner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Our bodies ourselves
Wonder
Dear Martin
Forever by Judy Bloom
Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl
THE 5 people you meet in heaven -MITCH ALBOM , sorry if I mix the title also good in audio
This picture book Dreams of Freedom that explain to children what their human rights are. Published by Amnesty International. Jimmy Carter says the biggest barrier to people not achieving their human rights is people don’t know what they are. No matter where you live, I would not assume the young people you care about know what they are.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.
Ask Alice
Here’s another great book explaining human rights to young people. Every Human has Rights; Published by Nat Geo, it has terrific tough vocabulary new to their daily lives.
THE INVISIBLE CROWD ELLEN WILES
Just one? Wonder, Out of My Mind, Because of Winn-Dixie, The One and Only Ivan, The Outsiders, A Wrinkle in Time, Narnia…..I could go on and on and on..
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Hop on Pop
The Giver. The Clowns of God.
Tuesday’s With Morrie. When Breath Becomes Air.
Financial Peace
Deenie by Judy Blume
Where the Red Fern Grows
Silent Songbird
Healers Apprentice by Melanie dickerson
Yertle the Turtle
The little prince
David Copperfield, The Catcher in the Rye, 1984. (and ditto many mentioned above)
The Diary of Anne Frank
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