Teen Reads

www.insideadog.com.au

http://www.kidsreads.com/coming_soon.asp

http://www.teenreads.com/coming_soon.asp

www.queenslandbooks.com/schools.


BOYS POINT OF VIEW

James Moloney (Have only read Dougy and Gracey)
'Bridge to Wiseman's Cove 3
Lost Property 3 (started last night)
Touch Me 2

Marcus Zusak's
Underdog,2
Ruben Wolf,
The Messenger 2

David Metzenthen's books
Boys of Blood and Bone 2

David McRobbie,
Fergus McPhail
Tyro -

Micahel G. Bauer
The Running Man
Don't Call Me Ishmael

Nick Earl, 28 Shades of Brown (Good choice with movie)
'Doppelganger' by Michael Parker
Archie Fusillo's The Dons
'Clay' by David Almond
Scot Gardner's books, eg Burning Eddy
JC Burke's 'The Story of Tom Brennan', 4
A little piece of ground by Elizabeth Laird
Will by Maria Boyd 2 (Might buy this next week!)
Malorie Blackman's Nought's and crosses
Shadows in the mirror" by Cameron Nunn
Daredevils by Bill Condon
Scott Monk, Raw
Morris Gelitzman's 'Once' (Very good with Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Fredrick,
Elli, Hitler's Daughter, Anne Frank in Lit Circles)


AUTHOR TREASURE HUNT

New treasure hunt:
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/t_hunts/treasure_hunts.htm

On-line worksheet- an improved version of the clickable worksheets with a printable worksheet for students
http://www.lakemunmorah.ps.education.nsw.gov.au/onlineworksheets/stage_3/govt&federation.htm

Summer Activities - ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/
Activities arranged by grade level to keep kids reading, writing, and
following their curiosity - and there's no need to limit that to
summertime.

Here's a great reading website for JP students. The Starfall
learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service.It is US based
and 4 sections from ABC to learn to read aand I'm reading.

www.starfall.com


READING ALOUD TO TEENS

Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker
who chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the
boys love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape
Bram Stoker - Dracula


Parts of the Read aloud Handbook are available online
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_intro_p1.html

And some other quotes on research
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/aai.html

Another source of information
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr213.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml
http://www.toread.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0STR/is_8_110/ai_74826102
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3722/is_199910/ai_n8869711
http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rrq/v32/i2/abstracts/RRQ-32-2-Rosenhouse.html
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/dnd/ps24_AR_02.shtml
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/schoolimprovement/effective/briefs/readaloud
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/reading/10048
http://www.carla.umn.edu/immersion/acie/vol1/Feb1998_StudentsRead.html
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip59.html


AFTER HP

"Harry Potter. What Next?" You can download it from http://www.cbc.org.au/vic/harrypotter.pdf.
You could try this list and the link it also contains.
http://www.consultpivotal.com/higher_harry_potter.htm



FILM/BOOK TIE INS

http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/

A wrinkle in time;

Anne of green gables.

Babe (the sheep pig) by Dick King-Smith

Because of winn-dixie by Kate Dicamillo

Bridge to terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Charlie and the chocolate factory

Charlotte's Web

Ella enchanted,

The Enormous crocodile (Dahl)

Hating Alison Ashley

Howl's moving castle

The Indian in the cupboard

James and the giant peach

Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh

The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Lockie Leonard (TV series)

Mary Poppins

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Millions (Boyce)

Nancy Drew

Playing Beatie Bow

Polar express

A series of Unfortunate events

Storm boy,

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

The BFG

The borrowers (TV series?)

The iron giant

The secret garden

The snowman (Briggs)

The thief lord

The witches (dahl), ,

Treasure planet

Tuck everlasting

The Roman mysteries

Willy Wonka


SCIENCE FICTION

Blackman, Malorie Noughts and crosses series
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the sower (series)

Bujold, Lois McMaster Vorkosigan series
Carmichael, Claire Originator and other titles in the series
Farmer, Nancy House of scorpion
Fforde, Jasper Eyre affair and rest of series
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never let me go
James, P.D Children of men
Le Guin, Ursula K. The left hand of darkness and other titles
McCaffrey, Anne Dragon series
Shinn, Sharon Novel of Samaria series
Westerfeld, Scott Uglies series
"Galax arena" - Gillian Rubenstein -good young teenage protagonist
"A wrinkle in time" Madeline L'Engle - an oldie but a goody
"The ship who sang" Ursula Leguin - one of my favourites
"Rocannon's world" Leguin

Some fantasy
"The tombs of atuan" which is the second in the "Wizard of Earthsea
series - again teenage girl main character
"The Golden compass" or "Northern Lights" (in Australia) Phillip Pullman
- I love the girl character in this
"Dragonsong" and "Dragonsinger" by Anne McCaffrey
"The blue sword" Robin McKinley
"Three children and it" E. Nesbit - again - an oldie but a goody
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut Jr (Slaughter House 5, Cats Cradle)
1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
War of the Worlds HG Wells
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Madagranda David McRobbie
The last book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick
Phillip Pullman's trilogies


BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=616

http://www.delanylibrary.com/ChoosingBooks.html .

PHILIP PULLMAN
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (or other good anonymous ballads)
First Book of Samuel, Chapter 17 (the story of David and Goliath)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A good collection of myths and legends
A good collection of fairy tales

J. K. ROWLING
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

ANNE FINE
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Stiff Upper Lip (or any other Jeeves book) by P.G. Wodehouse
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles (or another Sherlock Holmes story) by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Shame to Miss, 1, 2 & 3

ANDREW MOTION
The Odyssey by Homer
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

MAGGIE GEE
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley
High Windows Philip Larkin
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood

VICTORIA GLENDINNING
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra by William
Shakespeare
Far from the Madding Crowd or Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Some poems by W.B.Yeats , T.S.Eliot and Philip Larkin
A novel by Ernest Hemingway
A novel by Graham Greene
A novel by J.G. Ballard
A novel by Evelyn Waugh
A novel by Martin Amis
A novel by Margaret Atwood
(c) The Royal Society of Literature 2006.

BEN OKRI
10½ Inclinations
There is a secret trail of books meant to inspire and enlighten
you. Find that trail.
Read outside your own nation, colour, class, gender.
Read the books your parents hate.
Read the books your parents love.
Have one or two authors that are important, that speak to you;
and make their works your secret passion.
Read widely, for fun, stimulation, escape.
Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later,
cautiously.
Read what you're not supposed to read.
Read for your own liberation and mental freedom.
Books are like mirrors. Don't just read the words. Go into the
mirror.
That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That's where the gods
dream, where our realities are born. 10½) Read the world. It is the most
mysterious book of all.
(c) Ben Okri 2006. All rights reserved.


RIGHTS OF THE READER

http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Downloads/The-Rights-of-the-Reader-poster


READING CIRCLES

www.roxanneciddor.com


TEEN SHORT READS

CHERUB series, especially the first part of chapter 10 of The Fall
Alex Rider series, especially, the prologue to Eagle Strike
The Braves (aka The Home of the Braves) by David Klass, chapter 2
James Riordan's When the Guns Fall Silent
Night Rise (Horowitz)
Raw (Scott Monk) - Year 9 up
Andrew Daddo - Dacked (the scene where Fergus and Kelvin go tubing on
Sydney Harbour - with fairly disastrous results)
Markus Zusak - The Underdog (The first chapter and dream)
Henry Lawson - The Loaded Dog (it might be an oldie, but the boys love it)
Charlie Higson - Silverfin (the first chapter)
Steven Herrick - The Simple Gift (the boys are amazed it is poetry)
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (true story of the hiker who
chopped his hand off with his Leatherman after becoming trapped - the boys
love the pictures!)
Homer Hickam - October Sky (the early part where Homer and his mates test
their first rocket and blow up his mother's fence and rose garden. This is
the amazing true story of a mountain boy in Virginia who aspired to build
rockets and work for NASA... and he eventually did!)
Anthony Horowitz - The Devil and his Boy (the first chapter... this is a
good one to read in conjunction with the study of Shakespeare)
Deborah Ellis - Diego Run! (the scene where Diego and Mando escape - am
reading this at the moment and it is going down well)
Bram Stoker - Dracula (I just love doing the accent for this one!!)

Classic Short Stories
http://www.classicshorts.com/


BOYS

http://boysblokesbooks.edublogs.org/


7/8/9 READING LISTS

Don't call me Ishmael! Bauer, Michael Gerard Comedy M
Mister Monday Garth Nix Fantasy
Number 8 Fienberg, Anna Adventure M/F
Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong Kirsty Murray F
One son is enough Peggy Woodford Historical M/F
Faking Sweet J.C. Burke
Love is a UFO Spillman, Ken Relationships M
Barefoot Kids Hawke, Steve Racism F
My Big Birkett Lisa Shanahan F
Juggling with Mandarins by V.M. Jones
Starseeker by T. Bowler
Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 by A. Heiss
The Lake at the End of the World by ááC. Macdonald
Stargirl by J. Spinelli
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by A. Y. Mah
To the Boy in Berlin by E. Honey
The Dons by A. Fusillo
The Cursed áby M. Panckridge
Augustine's Lunch by L. Budd

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AUTHOR VISIT REVIEWS

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