Literature for older boys

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  • November 9, 2011 at 8:05 pm
    Misty
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    I loved the topic on 12 yr olds and reading options.  Now I’m wondering about the little bit older crowd.  The early teens and more advanced readers?  My son has already gone through the 6-8 books he was to read for literature for the year.  It’s only November? AHHH

    He liked the Gary Paulsen series, My Side of the Mtn Series, Shilo, Rascal, (loved) The Giver, likes King Arthur type books, but does not like things that seem childish; animals talking to eachother, things like that.

      He has read this year Canoeing with Cree, The Return of the Indian, Call of the Wild, The Curiosity Shop, Wild Trek, With These Hands..

    So he obviously needs more reading?  What do you suggest?  I’d like to make him

    November 9, 2011 at 9:42 pm
    Monica
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    Has he read Where the Red Fern Grows? That’s another great book for pre-teens. My DS isn’t quite that age, yet, so I don’t have too many recommendations.

    November 9, 2011 at 10:21 pm
    RobinP
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    Stephen Meader books are excellent as are Merritt Parmalee Allen. 

    November 9, 2011 at 10:25 pm
    csmamma
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    Misty, how about?

    • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    • The Bronze Bow 

    • I am David

    • The Green Book

    • The Good Master

    • Snow Treasure

    • Sounder

    • Maniac Magee

    • Dear Mr. Henshaw

    • Nothing to Fear

    • From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil and E. Frankweiler

    • Indian Captive

    All of these my oldest enjoyed. Most are Sonlight suggestions. 

    November 9, 2011 at 10:30 pm
    sheraz
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    One of my friends who is doing a TJEd with her kids, had her 14 yo reading James Fennimore Cooper’s series.  I am not sure what the reading level is, but the series ends with the Last of the Mohicans.  I have not read them, but they sound fascinating.  =)

    November 10, 2011 at 2:34 am
    Leah IL
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    My 14 year old is a reader.  Right now he is reading a lot of short stories- I keep bringing home different collections and we are both reading them.  He has gone through an O. Henry collection of stories, and next I am thinking maybe Tennessee Williams..not sure, I have to preview some things. 

    Other books he has read over the past year or two:

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Huckleberry Finn

    Lord of the Flies

    Night

    The Once and Future King (reading now)

    A Separate Peace

    The Lord of the Rings trilogy

    The Redwall Series

    November 11, 2011 at 3:03 am
    smartypants
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    The Yearling

    Lord of the Flies

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    books by Walter Dean Myers (some of these contain some very rough language as they are based on real people’s lives, including the author)

    Gulliver’s Travels

    Johnny Tremain

    The Giver

    The Chosen

    books by Jules Verne

    Edgar Allen Poe stories

    Frankenstein

    I’ll go check my shelves for more.

    Robin

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