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| Author: | Joseph Heller |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1961 |
Comedy about why war is not funny. | |
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| Author: | JD Salinger |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1951 |
Not a fat book, but required reading for all teenagers who become frustrated with pretention. My brother's favorite teenage angst novel. | |
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| Author: | Eric Hansen |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | non-fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1988 |
About dealing with people and environments that are not like what you're used to. | |
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| Author: | Louise Erdrich |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | For grown-ups |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | For grown-ups |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1984 |
Set of interlocking short stories that combined help us understand many things about life on Native American reservations. One has to do with the devastating effect of alcohol on family life. | |
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| Author: | Karen Armstrong |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | Non-fiction: Autobiography |
| Year of publication: | 2004 |
Thoughtful autobiography of a former nun turned writer about religious thought. | |
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| Author: | Donald McQuade |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | College-prep |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | College-prep |
| Genre: | non-fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
The Seeing and Writing book is a very different book. It too is a book for the entry level college (or perhaps advanced high school?) writer. The over all premise of the book is that we live in a real world where visual text messages have as much, if not more, sway than a full page of text. Certainly, it is a much more interesting book to read and look through and does not pretend to hold the act of writing to a separate standard... a higher standard... than visual images. Rather, the book attempts to have the reader ponder the significance of visual images, text images, and the power of linking the two. | |
The "voice" of the text is much more savvy. Perhaps a tad too trendy for my country bumpkin kids. I am being somewhat selective on which subjects/essays I will have my two work with in the text. There are several exercises in the book that I think my highly visual kids will respond to. The book is also linked to a website which nicely extends the text. | |
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| Author: | Simon Winchester |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | non-fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1998 |
Fascinating but depressing story of the life of the murderer who worked on the OED (one of our favorite dictionaries.) | |
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| Author: | Susan Orlean |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | biography |
| Year of publication: | 2000 |
Study of a man obsessed with orchids. | |
The language is rough, but the book is well worth reading because of its fascinating descriptions of the orchids and the man and life in this particular stratum of Floridian society, which spans Seminole tribe members to British nobility. | |
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| Author: | Mark Helprin |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1983 |
New York-state-based magical realism. One of our favorite books. | |
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