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The Giver

Lowry, Lois


NOV 8-IMC. (Gr. 8) Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth and there is no turning back.
Date Published:1993

NOV 8-IMC. (Gr. 8) Jonas' world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth and there is no turning back.

Date Published:1993

The Outsiders

Hinton, S.E.


NOV 7-IMC. (Gr. 7) Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive beneath his bold front. Since his parents death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging long-haired boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend kills a member of a rival gang a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.
Date Published:1967

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dahl, Roald


NOV 3-IMC. (Gr. 3) They are the three meanest farmers you'd ever hate to meet - and they'll do anything to get Mr. Fox. That clever fox has been stealing their farmyard fowl for years, but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces. Together they'll shoot, starve or dig him out. Unfortunately for the farmers, Mr. Fox and his fine family have other plans.
Date Published:1970

Holes

Sachar, Louis


NOV 8-IMC. (Gr. 8) Stanley Yelnats is under a curse the has followed generations of Yelnats. Stanley has been unjustly sent to Camp Green Lake. A boys' detention center where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep.
Date Published:1998

Night

Wiesel, Elie


NOV 30-1-IMC. (Eng. 30-1) When Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, having also been in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Buna, he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews. This auto-biography is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family and the death of his innocence. Elie was born in Romania.
Date Published:1960

NOV 30-1-IMC. (Eng. 30-1) When Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, having also been in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Buna, he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews. This auto-biography is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family and the death of his innocence. Elie was born in Romania.

Date Published:1960

Touching spirit bear

Mikaelsen, Ben


NOV 9-IMC. (Gr. 9) Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Coles life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting, stealing, and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between prison and Native American Circle Justice, Cole chooses Circle Justice: He'll spend one year in complete isolation on a remote Alaskan island. In the first days of his banishment, Cole is mauled by a mysterious white bear and nearly dies. Now there's no one left to save Cole, but Cole himself. The native mythical bear changes Cole's life as he returns to the island to complete his year long sentence.
Date Published:2001

NOV 9-IMC. (Gr. 9) Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Coles life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting, stealing, and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between prison and Native American Circle Justice, Cole chooses Circle Justice: He'll spend one year in complete isolation on a remote Alaskan island. In the first days of his banishment, Cole is mauled by a mysterious white bear and nearly dies. Now there's no one left to save Cole, but Cole himself. The native mythical bear changes Cole's life as he returns to the island to complete his year long sentence.

Date Published:2001

The Dragonling

Koller, Jackie French


NOV 3-IMC. (Gr. 3) Sixty page fantasy book is a delightful story of a young boy's perilous rescue and return of a baby dragon after finding it in the pouch of a slayed Great Blue. The women of the village find a way to restore peace between the dragons and the dragon slayers.
Date Published:1990

Lord of the flies

Golding, William


NOV 20-1-IMC. (Eng. 20-1) Describes the disintegration of shipwrecked young boys' untried and precarious civilization under the pressure of raw nature that ends in bloody climax.
Date Published:1954

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Galloway, Steven


NOV 30-1-IMC. A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, The Cellist of Sarajevo poignantly explores how war can change one's definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory. Elsewhere, a young man leaves home to collect drinking water for his family and, in the face of danger, must weigh the value of generosity against selfish survivalism. A third man, older, sets off in search of bread and distraction and instead runs into a long-ago friend who reminds him of the city he thought he had lost, and the man he once was. As both men are drawn into the orbit of cello music, a fourth character - a young woman, a sniper - holds the fate of the cellist in her hands. As she protects him with her life, her own army prepares to challenge the kind of person she has become.
Date Published:2009

NOV 30-1-IMC. A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, The Cellist of Sarajevo poignantly explores how war can change one's definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory. Elsewhere, a young man leaves home to collect drinking water for his family and, in the face of danger, must weigh the value of generosity against selfish survivalism. A third man, older, sets off in search of bread and distraction and instead runs into a long-ago friend who reminds him of the city he thought he had lost, and the man he once was. As both men are drawn into the orbit of cello music, a fourth character - a young woman, a sniper - holds the fate of the cellist in her hands. As she protects him with her life, her own army prepares to challenge the kind of person she has become.

Date Published:2009

The Breadwinner

Ellis, Deborah


NOV 6-IMC. (Gr. 6) Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel, The Breadwinner, is trapped inside her family's one-room home. That is, until the Taliban hauls away her father and Parvana realizes that it's up to her to become the "breadwinner" and disguise herself as a boy to support her mother, two sisters, and baby brother. Set in the early years of the Taliban regime, this topical novel for middle readers explores the harsh realities of life for girls and women in modern-day Afghanistan.
Date Published:2000

NOV 6-IMC. (Gr. 6) Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel, The Breadwinner, is trapped inside her family's one-room home. That is, until the Taliban hauls away her father and Parvana realizes that it's up to her to become the "breadwinner" and disguise herself as a boy to support her mother, two sisters, and baby brother. Set in the early years of the Taliban regime, this topical novel for middle readers explores the harsh realities of life for girls and women in modern-day Afghanistan.

Date Published:2000

Tales of a fourth grade nothing

Blume, Judy


NOV 4-IMC. (Gr. 4) Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher had a terrible problem - his little brother, Fudge. Peter was finding his brother harder and harder to take and when Fudge got at his pet turtle, Dribble, that was the end. Peter's parents try to help with some delightful results.
Date Published:1972

To kill a mockingbird

Lee, Harper


NOV 10-1-IMC. (Eng. 10-1) A novel of childhood in a sleepy Southern town during the depression and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. It is the story of a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. His compassionate but doomed defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect of his two motherless children.
Date Published:1960

Bridge to Terabithia

Paterson, Katherine


NOV 5-IMC. (Gr. 5) This touching story allows students to experience laughter, excitement and sorrow as they observe the personal growth of two fifth grade students. The friendship of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke leads them to create a magic kingdom, Terabithea, where they reign as king and queen. A shocking tragedy occurs and Jess is forced to understand how Leslie's strength and courage has changed him.
Date Published:1977

NOV 5-IMC. (Gr. 5) This touching story allows students to experience laughter, excitement and sorrow as they observe the personal growth of two fifth grade students. The friendship of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke leads them to create a magic kingdom, Terabithea, where they reign as king and queen. A shocking tragedy occurs and Jess is forced to understand how Leslie's strength and courage has changed him.

Date Published:1977

Macbeth with related readings


NOV 20-1-IMC. (Eng. 20-1) Student's text with readings for Macbeth. (Out of print - lost copies cannot be replaced).
Date Published:1997

A Streetcar named desire

Williams, Tennessee


NOV 30-1-IMC. (Eng. 30-1) One of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed.
Date Published:1947

Dinosaurs before dark

Osborne, Mary Pope


NOV 2-IMC. (Gr. 2) A climb into a mysterious treehouse filled with books take Annie and her brother Jack back 65 million years to the time of the dinosaurs and some wonderful adventures.
Date Published:1992

Tuck everlasting

Babbitt, Natalie


NOV 6-IMC. (Gr. 6) The story of an isolated child, Winnie Foster, and her discovery of the Tuck family secret. A powerful story that students won't be able to put down. Deals with the basic dilemma of immortality and all it's implications for the human race.
Date Published:1975

Murder on the Canadian

Wilson, Eric


NOV 5-IMC. (Class set but may be used as part of the Grade Five mystery unit.) The agonizing sound of a woman's scream hurls Tom Austen into the middle of a murder plot on board the sleek passenger train "The Canadian". There are plenty of suspects to lay false trails and the action moves as fast as the train.
Date Published:1983

And then there were none

Christie, Agatha


NOV 9-IMC. (Gr. 9) Ten people are invited by U.N. Owen to Indian Island for a "vacation". Each is hiding something from their past. As time progresses, the story of each unfolds. However as the poem "Ten Little Indians" foreshadows, each person dies. Who is U.N. Owen? Who is really responsible for the deaths? Why is this happening? A very accessible novel that deals with truth, deception and justice.
Date Published:1939

NOV 9-IMC. (Gr. 9) Ten people are invited by U.N. Owen to Indian Island for a "vacation". Each is hiding something from their past. As time progresses, the story of each unfolds. However as the poem "Ten Little Indians" foreshadows, each person dies. Who is U.N. Owen? Who is really responsible for the deaths? Why is this happening? A very accessible novel that deals with truth, deception and justice.

Date Published:1939

Speak

Anderson, Laurie Halse


NOV 10-2-IMC. (Eng. 10-2) Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. Her safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth.
Date Published:1999

NOV 10-2-IMC. (Eng. 10-2) Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. Her safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth.

Date Published:1999