(Those books in blue have mini-review accompaniment reflecting community reviewers’ comments from July 1998 and some other sources. Plus some include questions for family discussion or other resources.
Books used but unreported in a specific classroom:
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Dispatches - Michael Herr*Newly adopted on September 8
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In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien*Newly adopted on September 8
Medea - Aeschylus
Never in a Hurry - Naomi Shibab Nye*not yet applied for adoption
Yellow Glove - Naomi Shihab Nye*not yet applied for adoption
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
(DA)One Day in the Life - Ivan Solzhenitsyn
Beat Queen - Louise Erdich*not yet applied for adoption
Love Medicine - Louise Erdich *not yet applied for adoption
Tracks - Louise Erdich*not yet applied for adoption
Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman *not yet applied for adoption
Faust - Goethe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Antigone - Sophocles
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan *not yet applied for adoption
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy*not yet applied for adoption
Unfinished Business - Jack McCallum*not yet applied for adoption
Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley*not yet applied for adoption
Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Elliot*not yet applied for adoption
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water - Michael Dorris*not yet applied for adoption
Twelfth Graders choose from Elective classes:
Mythology
The Odyssey
The Trojan Woman
The Iliad
Power of Myth
The Business of Fancy Dancing - Sherman Alexie*not yet applied for adoption
Old Skins, New Skins - Sherman Alexie*not yet applied for adoption
The Summer of Black Widows - Sherman Alexie*not yet applied for adoption
The Last Indian on the Moon - Sherman Alexie*not yet applied for adoption
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie *Adopted - Sept. 8
Indian Killer - Sherman Alexie*not yet applied for adoption
What we talk about when We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)Please Be Quiet, Please - Raymond Carver*not yet applied for adoption
Aquamarine - Raymond Carver*not yet applied for adoption
Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver*not yet applied for adoption
River of the West - Robert Clark*not yet applied for adoption
(DA)Ricochet River - Robin Cody *Newly adopted on September 8
Voyage of a Summer Sun - Robin Cody*not yet applied for adoption
The Trail Home -John Danie*not yet applied for adoption
A River Runs Through It - Norman MacLean*Newly adopted -September 8
Young Men and Fire - Norman MacLean*not yet applied for adoption
River Walking: Reflections on Moving Waters - Kathleen Dean Moore*Newly adopted on September 8>
Skid Road - Murray Morgan*Newly adopted on September 8
At the Field's End - Nicholas O'Connel
Deer in the Haystacks - Dixie Partridge *Newly adopted on September 8>
River of Life, Channel of Death - Keith C. Peterson*not yet applied for adoption
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson*not yet applied for adoption
Having Everything Right
Locksa Road
The Grannary
Wind and Waves
A Fine and Pleasant Misery - Patrick McManus
This House of Sky - Ivan Doig*not yet applied for adoption
Of Men and Mountains - William O. Douglas *Newly adopted - Sept. 8
(DA)The River Why - David James Duncan*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)The Brothers K - David James Duncan*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)River's Teeth - David James Duncan*Newly adopted on September 8
Snow Falling on Cedars - Daniel Guterson*Newly adopted on September 8
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind - Daniel Guterson *Newly adopted on September 8
The Dune Series - Frank Herbert
The Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert
The Lazarus Effect - Frank Herbert
Triggering Town - Richard Hugo*not yet applied for adoption
Making Certain it Goes On - Richard Hugo*not yet applied for adoption
Aiee!
War on War - Lowell Jagger*not yet applied for adoption
Hope Against Hope - Lowell Jagger*not yet applied for adoption
Nothing Lasts Forever - Lowell Jagger*not yet applied for adoption
Middle Passage - Charles Johnson*not yet applied for adoption
(DA)Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey *Newly adopted - Sept. 8
(DA)Demon Box - Ken Kesey*not yet applied for adoption
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer*Newly adopted on September 8
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer*not yet applied for adoption
Winterkill - Craig Leslie*Newly adopted on September 8
River Song - Craig Leslie*Newly adopted on September 8
The Sky Fisherman - Craig Leslie*Newly adopted on September 8
Edge Walking on the Western Rim - Mayumi Tsutakawa*Newly adopted - Sept. 8
The Death of James Loney - James Welch*not yet applied for adoption
Fools Crow - James Welch*not yet applied for adoption
(DA)This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolf *Newly adopted on September 8
Childhood's End - A.C. Clark
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Ectopia Emerging
Ender's Game (and other Orson Scott Card's writings) *Newly adopted – Sept. 8
Dune - Frank Herbert
Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
(DA)With These Girls Hope is a Muscle - Madeline Blais*Newly adopted on September 8
Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn *not yet applied for adoption
For the Glory - Ken Denlinger*not yet applied for adoption
A March to Madness - John Feinstein*Newly adopted on September 8
Play Ball - John Feinstein*Newly adopted on September 8
The Dark Side of the Game - Tim Greene*not yet applied for adoption
The Best and the Brightest - David Halverston *not yet applied for adoption
Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella*Newly adopted on September 8
The Natural - Bernard Malamud*Newly adopted on September 8
Hoop Dreams - Ben Joravsky
Men at Work - Will George*Newly adopted on September 8
A Good Walk Spoiled - John Feinstein*Newly adopted on September 8
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston*Newly adopted - Sept.8
Dead Man Walking - Sister Helen Prejean*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)In these Girls, Hope is a Muscle - Madeline Blais*Newly adopted - Sept. 8
Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mamoody*Newly adopted on September 8
Silk Stockings and Other Stories - Kate Chopin*Newly adopted on September 8
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The
Awakening - Kate Chopin*Newly adopted on September 8
One Child - Tory Hayden
Ellen Foster - Kate Gibbons*Newly adopted on September 8
(DA)Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi*Newly adopted on September 8
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan *Newly adopted on September 8
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Emma - Jane Austen
Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton*not yet applied for adoption
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