05-10-2011, 04:58 AM
The books I grooved on as a middle schooler have too much sex and violence, but make great (edited) read alouds. Truly, students I run into after many years ask if I still read these two out-of-print books to my class:
The Overman Culture (Edmund Cooper)
This Perfect Day (Ira Levon)
Kinda fun to get them into non-made-for-youth action fiction, though there is always the chance of a sex scene making in in:
Dan Browne (Digital Fortress, has sex scene; Deception Point, DaVinci Code)
Jame Rollins (Ice Hunt, Subterranean, Amazonia, Deep Fathom)
Ender's Game (series) some language
More sanitized "youth fiction" include:
The House of the Scorpions (Nancy Farmer)
Stargirl, Crash, Wringer (Jerry Spinelli)
Scat, Flush (Carl Haaisen)
Uglies, Pretties, Specials, etc. (Scott Westerfeld, girl main characters, but hooks boys too)
You'll have to get non-fiction from someone else.
Cheers,
Kirt
The Overman Culture (Edmund Cooper)
This Perfect Day (Ira Levon)
Kinda fun to get them into non-made-for-youth action fiction, though there is always the chance of a sex scene making in in:
Dan Browne (Digital Fortress, has sex scene; Deception Point, DaVinci Code)
Jame Rollins (Ice Hunt, Subterranean, Amazonia, Deep Fathom)
Ender's Game (series) some language
More sanitized "youth fiction" include:
The House of the Scorpions (Nancy Farmer)
Stargirl, Crash, Wringer (Jerry Spinelli)
Scat, Flush (Carl Haaisen)
Uglies, Pretties, Specials, etc. (Scott Westerfeld, girl main characters, but hooks boys too)
You'll have to get non-fiction from someone else.
Cheers,
Kirt