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ED 387 826

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AUTHOR

Samuels, Barbara G., Ed.; Beers, G. Kylene, Ed.

TITLE Your Reading: An Annotated Booklist for Middle School and Junior High, 1995-96 Edition. NCTE Bibliography

Series.

INSTITUTION

National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana,

REPORT NO

ISBN-0-8141-5943-5; ISSN-1051-4740

PUB DATE

96
NOTE

386p.; For the previous edition, see ED 362 879.

Foreword by Joan Lowery Nixon.

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DESCRIPTORS

*Adolescent Literature; Annotated Bibliographies;

Childrens Literature; Elementary School Students;

Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; Junior High School Students; Middle Schools; *Reading Material

Selection; *Recreational Reading

IDENTIFIERSAesthetic Reading; Middle School Students; *Trade Books

ABSTRACT

Designed for use by junior high and middle school

students, this annotated bibliography of over 1,100 titles of fiction and nonfiction also serves as a resource for teachers, librarians, and parents in search of titles that might catch the attention of such students. The bibliography presents annotations of books published or reissued in 1993 and 1994. Each entry contains the author, title, name of publisher, publication date, length of book, ISBN number, 7-8-line synopsis of the book. Titles are grouped by subject matter under 7 sections: (1) Growing Up;(2) Imagined Lands; (3) Shudder and Shake!; (4) People, Problems, and Places: Yesterday and Today; (5) Science All around You;(6) Words To Remember; and (7) Facts, Figures, and Fun. In addition to a directory of publishers, and author, title, and subject indexes, the bibliography includes 2 appendixes--a 100-item list of the most notable books published between 1967 and 1992 of young adult literature; and a list of the books included in the annotated list which have won awards.(RS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made

from the original document.***************************************************************i,AAi.**i.A

Your Readin

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Barbara G. Samuels and G. Kykne.Beers, Editors,

and th(? Cointilittee on the Mtddle School and Junior }Ugh Book lkt

Foreword by Joan Lowery Nixon

NCTE Bibliography Series

Your Reading

3 NCTE Editorial Board: Pat Cordeiro; Hazel Davis; Brenda Greene; Richard Luckert; Aileen Pace Nilsen; Karen Smith, Chair, ex officio, Dawn Boyer, NCTE

Staff Liaison

Committee on the Middle School and Junior High Book list

Barbara G. Samuels, Chair

G. KylEne Beers, Associate Chair

Richard F. Abrahamson

Steven D. Bauer

Lois Buckman

Betty Carter

Claudia H. De Shay

Margaret I-1. Hill

Mary Beth Hines

Marvin Hoffman

Be Be Hood

Rosemary Oliphant Ingham

Lee Kobayashi

Karen S. Kutiper

Teri S. Lesesne

Hollis Lowery-Moore

Karen Ferris Morgan

Steven J. Rakow

Judith Romo

Rosemary Smith

Mary Snyder

Marti Turner

Eleanore S. Tyson

Judy Mayne Wallis

Maureen White

Patricia Potter Wilson

MMA Bibliography Series

4

Your Reading

An Annotated Book list for Middle School

and Junior High

1995-96 Edition

Barbara G. Samuels and G. Kylene Beers, Editors,

and the Committee on the Middle School and Junior High Book list of the National Council of Teachers of English

With a Foreword by

Joan Lowery Nixon

National Council of Teachers of English

1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-10%

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the quotation from Poem #1263 by Emily Dickinson on page 267: Reprinted by permission

of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of EmilyDickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of

Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Manuscript Editor: Anne McCrary Sullivan

Production Editor: Rona S. Smith

Interior Design: Doug Burnett

Series Cover Design: R. Maul

Cover Illustration: Victoria Martin Pohlmann

NCTE Stock Number: 59435-3050

© 1996 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a fo-rum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teachingof English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point ofview does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of

Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified.

ISSN 1051-4740

ISBN 0-8141-5943-5

About the NOTE

Bibliography Series

The National Council of Teachers of English is proud to be part of a pro- cess that we feel iS important. It begins when an educator who knows literature and its value to students and teachers is chosen by the NCTE Executive Committee to be a booklist editor. That editor then works with teachers and librarians who review, select, and annotate hundreds of new trade books sent to them by publishers. It's a complicated process, one that can last three or four years. But because of their dedication and strong belief in the need to let others know about the good literature that's avail- able, these professionals volunteer their time in a way that serves as an inspiration to all of us. The members of the committee that compiled this volume are listed on one of the first pages, and we are grateful for their hard work. In our bibliography series are five different booklists, each focused on a particular audience, each updated regularly. These are Adventuring with Books (pre-K through grade 6), Kaleidoscope (multicultural literature,

grades K through 8), Your Reading (middle school/junior high), Books forYou (senior high), and High InterestEasy Reading (middle school,

junior/senior high reluctant readers). Together, these volumes list thou-sands of the most recent children's and young adult trade books.

Although the works included cover a wide range of topics, they all have one thing in common: they're good books that students and teachers alike enjoy. Of course, no single book is right for everyone or every purpose, so inclusion in this booklist is not necessarily an endorsement from NCTE. However, it does indicate that the professionals who make up the booklist committee feel that the work in question is worthy of teachers' and stu- dents' attention, whether for its informative or aesthetic qualities. On the other hand, exclusion from an NCTE booklist is not necessarily a judg- ment on the quality of a given book or publisher. Many factorsspace, time, availability of certain books, publisher participationmay influ- ence the final shape of the list. We hope that you will find this hooklist a useful resource in dis- covering new titles and authors, and we hope that you will collect the other booklists in the NCTE series. Our mission is to help improve the vi

About the NCTE Bibliography Series

teaching and learning of English and the language arts, and we feel the quality of our booklists contributes substantially toward that goal. We think you will agree.

Dawn Boyer

Director of Acquisitions

and Development in Publications vii

Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Foreword: We Have the Power

xi

Introduction

xiii

I. Growing Up

1. Family and Home

3

2. Friendship and Romance

31

3. Problems and Challenges

49

4. Playing the Game: Stories about Sports

69

II. Imagined Lands

5. Myths, Legends, and Folklore

75

6. The Fantastic World of Fantasy

87

7. Science with a Twist: Science Fiction

103

III. Shudder and Shake!

8. Whodunnit? Mysteries

115

9. Occult, Horror, Ghosts, and Unexplained Phenomena

121

10. Staying Alive! Adventure and Survival

135
IV. People, Problems, and Places: Yesterday and Today

11. Looking Back: Historical Fiction

147

12. Understanding the Past: History

167

13. People to Know: Autobiography and Biography

192

14. Customs, Cultures, and Lands

210

15. Analyzing Issues of Today

215
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Contents

V. Science All arm, :1 You

16. Physical Science

231

17. Nature, Ecology, and the Environment

239

18. The Animal Kingdom

248

19. Mental and Physical Health

257

VI. Words to Remember

20. Poetry

21. Short Stories269

278

VII. Facts, Figures, and Fun

22. The Arts! Music, Dance, Drama, Painting, and Crafts

289

23. More about Sports

300

24. How, Why, and What: Fun, Facts, and Trivia

306
Appendix A: 100 Books from 25 Years of "Thung Adult Literature (1967-1992) 317

Appendix B: Award-Winning Books in Your Reading

321

Directory of Publishers

329

Author Index

335

Title Index

345

Subject Index

360

Editors

377

About the Committee

379
ix

Acknowledgments

This edition of Your Reading represents the hard work of a group of dedicat2d colleagues and professionals. Our committee responded enthusiastically to the

challenge of reviewing hundreds of books and creating well-written annotationsthat will stimulate reading by junior high and middle school students. For twoyears, they received the boxes of books we sent them, searched for additional

titles, and contributed their energy and expertise to the project. Each member of

our committee took responsibility for a chapter of the book. They answered ourcries for help and responded with extra annotations and advice whenever wecalled upon them. We cannot thank them enough! These teachers, librarians,and university professors are a unique and special group.

In addition to the members of the committee, a few other people contrib-

uted their time and talent. Catherine Bush Partridge read many of the books inthe sports chapters. Dawn Bradford and Cathy Moore also reviewed books andwrote annotations.

Also, we must offer a special thanks to the publishers whose generosity provided the books that are the heart and lift- of this project. We appreciate their

commitment to the promotion of a population of readers. Without their support,this booklist would not exist.

The NCTE staff, while experiencing changes during our tenure as edi-tors, supported us by answering our relentless questions about format, editing,and organization.

Finally, we could not have done this project without the continuing sup-

port and encouragement from our husbands, Vic Samuels and Brad Beers. Theylugged boxes of books, made trips to the post office, provided advice on word-

processing problems, lived with piles of books and papers cluttering every roomof our houses, prepared dinners, tended to children and other family obliga-

tions, and generally made it possible for us to complete the book.

Barbara G. Samuels and G. Kvlene Beers

xi

Foreword: We Have

the Power

Aladdin had a genie at his command.

"Take me wherever I wish, Genie. Bring me whatever I want. Give me the world, the moon, the stars."

Powerful stuff.. .for those days before books.

Today we don't need to rub a lamp to get our wishes. All we have to do is open a book of our choice and travel wherever our mood takes us. That's real power. Want to have fun being scared? We can join Agatha Christie, pair- ing up with private eyes, or amateur detectives to cleverly solve crimes; or we can use our wits to escape from danger. Have a yen for fantasy? Search for unicorns, wizards, and magic stardust. Slip into the enchanted worlds created by C. S. Lewis and

J. R. R. Tolkien.

Looking for excitement? Turn a book cover and jump into adven- ture to rival anything an. enchanted genie could dream up. Walk on the moon with Neil Armstrong. Pilot a spacecraft and outwit evil forces from another planet. Save a civilization. Delve into history with the courageous Anne Frank and Rosa Parks. Leave our friends and family to join a wagon train heading for Oregon. Fight beside Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett at the Alamo. Search for a brother missing after the Battle of Gettysburg. Dream of love through the sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare. Slip with the fog and Carl Sandburg into the rhythm of Chicago. Let our minds play with the magic of e. e. cummings and T. S. Eliot. Learn of the world around us. Learn of the worlds within us. Read to understand our love, our pain, and our eagerness to find ourselves so we can grow. Step into science. March into math. Explore. Invent. Create new diva ms. Books, books, books. Enjoy them to their fullest. Reading is as im- portant to our quality of life as breathing, sleeping, and eating. Read the old hooks and read the new ones. Gulp them down like popcorn or savor them, tasting with tiny bites. Delight in familiar favor- 2 xii

Foreword

ites, but investigate different flavors. Gobble them down or spit them out and reach for another. Relish the freedom to explore and expand the world we live in. Read to run through the gamut of joy, laughter, excitement, indignation, anger, and even tears. Read about books in the pages that follow. Make choices, then find those books and enjoy!

Read! We have the power.

Joan Lowery Nixon

Joan Lowery Nixon is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe

Best Juvenile Mystery Award for The Kidnapping of ChristinaLattimore, The Seance, The Name of the Game Was Murder,'and

The Other Side of Dark. In addition to her reputation as "the grande dame of mysteries for young readers," she is also known for her histori- cal books, such as the Orphan Train and Ellis Island series. Het vooks, over a hundred titles, combine suspense, drama, and appealing charac- ters.

Introduction

My task which I am trwing to achieve is, by the rower of the written word to make you hear, to make you feelit is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad

Like Joseph Conrad, the NCTE Committee on the Middle School and Junior High Book list wants to help you feel, hear, and seethrough the power of books. Because we believe in the power of words, we, the writ- ers of Your Reading, spent over two years reading, rereading, discussing, sharing, and writing about books we think you will enjoy and-find mean- ingful. The purpose of our book is to connect you with titles that will enhance your reading. Whether you are looking for a book because you need to complete an assignment or project, because you want to learn more about a topic that interests you, or because you are browsing to find something good to read, Your Reading can help you find the right book. Published by the National Council of Teachers of English, the various editions of Your Reading provide an ongoing annotated list for junior high and middle school students, teachers, librarians, and parents. What books are listed in this edition of Your Reading? Thousands of books are published every year. It's impossible to read all of them. To help you find the best books, a committee of teachers and librarians screened books that were published in 1993 and 1994. We also included reissues of older books, so a book that was originally published prior to 1993 but reissued during 1993 or 1994 may be annotated in this edition of Your Reading. Although we can't say we read everything pub- lished in those two years, we tried to identify as many books as possible that junior high and middle school students would find useful, interest- ing, and meaningful. How is the listing of books organized in Your Reading? As we read the books, we found that they seemed to group themselves in a variety of ways. A quick look at the Table of Contents will show you that Your Reading is organized into seven sections and twenty-four chap- ters. Within each chapter, the annotations are arranged alphabetically bythe author's last name. 14 xiv

Introduction

The first section, Growing Up, has four chapters about teens ma- turing into adulthood. Novels in the chapter called "Family and Home" are focused on family issues such as sibling rivalries, divorce, relation- ships with parents and stepparents, or coping with aging grandparents. The other chapters in this section involve friends, romance, school, sports, or tough life situations. Perhaps vou prefer to let your imagination wander in the Imag- ined Lands section. "Myths, Legends, and Folklore" includes versions of stories ha-I-IL-Iown ,o us through the generations. Many wonderful new editions of familiar stories are listed in this chapter, as cyell as tales from cultures around the world. Books '.)f fantasy and science fiction to stimulate your creative thinking are Aso a part of this section. Do You like books with suspense, adventure, or unexplained phe- nomena? Shudder and Shake is the section for you. Mysteries and sur- vival stories, ghosts and horror stories \ill stir your blood and keep You reading to the last page. The hooks annotated in People, Problems, and Places: Yesterday and Today can help you with your social studies projects. The books are grouped together in five chapters: "Looking Back: Historical Fiction," "Understanding the Past: History," "People to Know: Autobiography and Biography," "Customs, Cultures, and Lands," and "Analyzing Issues of Today." In these books, you can get to know fascinating people, places, and events that have shaped history, as \ Yell as issues, people, and prob- lems that are creating history today. I low do You feel about science? Whether you want to know more about the environment and how to save our planet, wonder about the way things work, enjoy studying the stars and planets, find fascinating the habits of animals, or want to know more about your own body, the section titled Science All around You offers many choices. (It might also provide ideas for a science-fair project.) Obviously, some categories overlap. In the section Words to Re- member we grouped all the short stories in one chapter and the poems in another. Short stories include some ghost stories that could also be listed in Chapter 9, "Occult, Horror, Ghosts, and Unexplained Phenom- ena," and other stories about families or growing up. But we chose to list them by genre. One wav you can find books about a subject that might be listed in another category is to look up the topic in the subject index. If you look under "ghosts" in the subject index, for example, you will find a listing of all the books about ghosts, not just those in Chapter 9. We ended this volume of )i)ur Read* with Facts, Figures, and Fun.

Ehis i

the section where you'll find books about how to build or make 15

Introduction

XV things, books about your favorite sports or entertainment, books of jokes, and trivia. Browse through this section. Something is sure to catch your attention. How can I use the different indexes at the end of the book? At the end of Your Reading, you will find three different indexes. Each index directs you to a chapter and annotation number (i.e., 2.22 directs you to Chapter 2, the twenty-second annotation). One index lists the authors of the books alphabetically. Another index lists the titles. The in- dex you may use the most often is the subject index. If you are looking for a book on a particular topic, check here. For example, suppose you want to learn more about Native Americans. If you look under Native Americans in the subject index, you will be directed to Fly Like an Eagle, a novel in Chapter 1, The Choctaw Code, historical fiction in Chapter 11, and Wounded Knee, a history book in Chapter 12. Though each of these books is annotated in a different chapter, the index will lead you directly to them. Can Your Reading help me with a school assignment? Absolutely! We hope you will use Your Reading regularly to help you find books about the topics you are studying in school. Suppose your class is about to begin a thematic unit on the environment. An entire chapter of Your Reading is devoted to books that focus on saving the planet. Brows- ing through that chapter should lead you to several helpful books. In addition, the subject index might lead you to fictional works about teens who worked on environmental issues. Perhaps your assignment is to write a paper about some aspect of World War II. The subject index will point you to specific novels in the "Looking Back: Historical Fiction" chapter; to biographies and autobi- ographies in "People to Know"; and to historical accounts in "Under- standing the Past: History." The sLbject index wili save you the trouble of reading every annotation in those three chapters to find the specific books that will help you collect information for your paper.

Does Your Reading include series books?

Of course. Many of the books published today are organized into series by the book publishers. We annotated at least one book in any series we selected, and we included the titles or subjects of other books in the se- ries that were published during 1993 and 1994. To help answer your ques- tions and guide your research, the subject index will lead you to some of xviquotesdbs_dbs49.pdfusesText_49

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