Additional+Resources

Here are some additional titles that we found to be valuable:

-The Book Thief -Seedfolks -American Born Chinese -When the Wolves Returned; Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone -The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-TIme Indian -Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison (this is one in a series about significant people in American history/culture; they're all good) - The Power of One - The Peaceful Warrior - Great Expectations - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Catcher in the Rye - To Kill a Mockingbird - The Red Badge of Courage - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Jane Eyre <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Secret Life of Bees <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Diary of Anne Frank <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- This Side of Paradise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- My Sister's Keeper <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Little Women <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Lovely Bones <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Kite Runner <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Year of the Flood <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Atonement <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Juniper Tree Burning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Milkweed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Home of the Brave <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Ashes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Fahrenheit 451 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Jungle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Into The Wild <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Into Thin Air <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Ender's Game <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Thunder Cave <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Sword in the Stone <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Outsiders <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Knucklehead <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Light in the Forest <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Hatchet <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- A Wizard of Earthsea <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Pearl <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Maximum Ride series <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Lord of the Rings <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Golden Compass series <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Ranger's Apprentice series <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- The Lightning Thief series <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">- Harry Potter series <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-American Born Chinese <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-The Chocolate War <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Wicked: The Life and Time of the Wicked Witch of the West <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Red Midnight <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-The Outsiders <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Speak <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Koertge, Ron. //The Brimstone Journals. -Poetry Collection// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Giovanni, Nikki. //My House. -Poetry Collection// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Fences <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Football Genius by Tim Green <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Leviathan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Red Kayak <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Scat <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Stolen Children <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Tiger <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-When You Reach Me <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-The White Giraffe -Two Kinds by Amy Tan