Hello,
While it is not YA, our student book club read No One is Coming to Save Us
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/books/review/a-gatsby-reboot-traces-a-black-familys-fortunes.html>
by
Stephanie Watts and it stimulated some interesting conversations.
Robin
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:09 AM Sarah Murphy <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Folks,
one of my wonderful english teachers is requesting current YA titles that
reflect some of the themes of The Great Gatsby. I am so excited, and have
come up with some great reads that I think will get my girls excited. But
I want to use the hivemind here to see if there are titles I have missed or
am not aware of.
Out of the 30 or so books I have pulled the books I am most excited by are
Turtles all the way down,
Little Fires Everywhere,
We were liars - Lockhart,
House of Sand and Fog - Dubus III
Pride - Zoboi
Scythe - Westerfeld
The Lie Tree - Hardinge
You can see they do not have to be precise in any way- obsession, love
across classes, dubious government, women's place as a romantic object -
there is so much in Gatsby to bounce off this could be a long list - But if
you have time and would enjoy the analysis I would be grateful for
suggestions.
Thank you to everyone - Sarah
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Sarah Murphy
Mercy High School Burlingame
Library Co-ordinator
650-762-1162
www.mercyhsb.com
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