forum Books You Read For School

Started February 09, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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You love them or you hate them, but EVERYONE read books for school.

Some favorites of mine:

• The Westing Game
• The False Prince
• Ella Enchanted
• Frankenstein
• Hamlet
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Petey
• THE OUTSIDERS!

Only done two. Both by my own volition.
Ella Enchanted, from a friend recently, and surprisingly good.
Frankenstein, cause I felt like it. A little hard back then, but I loved it.
To Kill a Mockingbird was for school. And I liked it.
Les Miserables. Cause I felt like it!

Here's some I hated

• Misty of Chicatinque (or something like that. It was a horse book)
• Abel's Island
• THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ELLA ENCHANTED!

• THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ELLA ENCHANTED!

Feel ya. I watched like ten minutes, but I know it was nothing like.
_{Though Cary Elwes will always have a special place in my heart.}

I'm really jealous of all you guys who were able to enjoy assigned reading. I enjoyed most of the ones that I had to read in elementary school, but absolutely hated pretty much all except for 2 novels I had to read in high school.
Some highlights:

• The Kite Runner was actually really good. I wasn't expecting to like it, but I think it may have been one of my favourite novel study books.
• The Chrysalids was alright. It was kinda more up my alley, but I don't really remember much other than that I didn't hate it.
• 1984 was also one that I kinda enjoyed, but like half that enjoyment was being a huge Muse fan at the time and catching all the references in their Resistance album. Still an interesting read though.
• Bridge to Terabithia was good but I'm an idiot and spoiled the ending (there's 200 pages and the one that I randomly flipped to just happened to be the one with a massive spoiler. I've been really careful about flipping though pages ever since then).

I'm probably going to come back and talk about all the books I hated later, otherwise this post is going to be like super long.

• Bridge to Terabithia was good but I'm an idiot and spoiled the ending (there's 200 pages and the one that I randomly flipped to just happened to be the one with a massive spoiler. I've been really careful about flipping though pages ever since then).

OH MY GOSH SAME!

Here are just some I have read for my english class

• Of Mice and Men
• To Build a Fire
• The Odyssey
• Speak
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Chocolate War, Fahrenheit 451, The Time Machine, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Persepolis
They were for this class called "Reading and Writing for college and beyond" also, The Great Gatsby we read in English class

• Of Mice and Men

This books is SO HECKING DEPRESSING!

• The Outsiders
• The Hunger Games
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Book Thief
• Wonder
• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
• Notes from the Midnight Driver
• Stargirl (there's a sequel called Love, Stargirl, but we didn't read it in class.)
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

That's all I can remember right now

The Light Between Oceans
Jekyll and Hyde
Call of the Wild (twice)
The Whipping Boy (twice)
The Odyssey
The Cay
The Invisibles Man
Treasure Island
The Maltese Falcon
Fahrenheit 451
The Trumpet Of The Swan
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Oh, yeah, we read a bunch of short stories too.

I had to read A Land Remembered last year…

in 7th grade I read Blindsided with a group

Here were mine I guess. Some of them I didn't really like.

• The Outsiders
• Frankenstein
• The Lord of the Flies
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Great Gatsby
• Nickel and Dimed
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello

I dunno
Just throwing stuff out there.

Yesterday my teacher read to us The Crayon Box that Talked

…
How is that even a thing?

Look it up

I did.
But…. What the heck?

It is equality month at my school.

Oh.
I only had a surface-level glimpse at it and I was like. "….why tho."

I just looked it up and um

Yeah. we have to go to groups with teachers and do activities every thursday. We had to read it, because the guidance
counselors set up some activities.

We are a highschool and we read that.

Yeh that's sorta…. Hm.

Y'all read some interesting books. I read these and there's probably more that I can't remember

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor
• Unwind by Neil Shusterman
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park