[LM_NET] MID: required reading list feedback

[Robie Martin <rmartin@VIKINGNET.NET>]

I'd appreciate opinions on this required reading list for 6th through 8th graders 
in a middle school 
gifted program.  Students are required to choose one of the following titles.  I 
would like to visit with 
the teacher about expanding the available choices for these intelligent, but quite 
young, students.  
I'd appreciate feedback on individual titles or the list as a whole.  Thanks--

STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES by Max Cleland
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME by Margaret Craven
ICE CASTLES by Leonore Fleischer
THE MIRACLE WORKER by William Gibson
I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN by Joanne Greenberg
ORDINARY PEOPLE by Judith Guest
DEATH BE NOT PROUD by John Gunther
SUSAN'S STORY by Susan Hampshire
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
CANNERY ROW by John Steinbeck
THE PEARL by John Steinbeck
ON GOLDEN POND by Ernest Thompson
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN by E.G. Valens
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder



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Robie Martin, Library/Media Specialist
Parsons USD 503
Parsons Middle School  •  Parsons High School
2719 Main  •  3030 Morton Ave.  •    Parsons, KS 67357
620-421-4190  •  620-421-3660  •   (fax) 620-423-8822
rmartin@vikingnet.net
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into 
the other room and read a book.
--Groucho Marx

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