Not classics but great.
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds anything by Jacqueline
Woodson...Her latest* Harbor Me *is wonderful
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:04 AM Cressida Hanson <chanson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Also, Sunrise Over Fallujah.
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. It's an "easy" read technically
(I read it in an hour) but it will bring up *much* conversation. Black
Lives Matter, Emmett Till, and so forth.
- I adore "Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler but that's better suited for
HS.
*Cressida Hanson*
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:46 AM Bernie Morrissey <
Bernie.Morrissey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any suggestions on a seminal piece of literature by an African-American
author that would be accessible to 8th graders of varying ability levels
and also somehow be considered a classic? I have the entire Mildred Taylor
oeuvre under consideration, but hope to have as many options as possible.
This would potentially replace To Kill a Mockingbird in our curriculum.
Thank you for your help.
Bernie Morrissey, Librarian
Pronouns: He/ him/ his
The Harker School, Middle School Campus
3800 Blackford Ave
San Jose, California 95117
408.553.0310 direct phone
408.248.2502 fax
Bernie.Morrissey@xxxxxxxxxx
http://library.harker.org/middlelibrary
