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Students Recommended Reading Lists Recommended Reading List Secondary 1, 2 and 3
Recommended Reading List Secondary 1, 2 and 3
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| Recommended Reading List Secondary 1, 2 and 3 |
| General |
| Historical |
| Humour |
| Mystery - Suspense |
| Science Fiction - Fantasy - Horror |
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Nothing but the Truth
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| It's against regulations to hum the national anthem in school. Philip decides to disobey the rule, and the whole nation watches what happens. |  |
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Hobbs, Will.
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Far North
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| Stranded in the Canadian wilderness, two boys endure a brutal sub arctic winter of bear, wolf, and moose attacks while they repeatedly struggle to escape. |  |
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DeFelice, Cynthia
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Weasel
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| Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs into the renegade killer known as Weasel, who has committed unspeakable atrocities in the frontier wilderness. Determined to avenge his father Nathan takes on the Weasel by himself and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. |  |
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Sachar, Louis.
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Holes
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| Stanley Yelnats finds himself digging holes at a Texas detention camp for wayward boys in this great adventure novel about bad luck, justice, friendship, and fate. |  |
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Paulsen, Gary
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Harris and Me
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| When a kid from the city has to spend the summer with distant relatives in a farming community, he doesn't know what to expect. His cousin, Harris, soon leads him into every kind of trouble you can get into on a farm; from wrestling pigs to a daredevil jump out of a barn loft. Farm life turns out to be more than he had ever imagined. |  |
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Philbrick, Rodman
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Freak the Mighty
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| Dumb, stupid, and slow. All Max's life, he'd been called these names, and it didn't help that people were afraid of him. So Max learned to be alone--at least until Freak came along. Together, they became Freak the Mighty, but will this duo be strong enough to fight Max's father, recently escaped from prison? |  |
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Taylor, Theodore
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The Cay
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where they must fine a way to survive until rescue comes…if it ever does. |
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Mikaelsen, Ben
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Touching Spirit Bear
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| After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life |  |
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Pinkwater, Daniel
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The Neddiad
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| The old powers are trying to come back, if they do, the planet will be plunged into chaos, civilization will be destroyed, and everything will get all violent and evil. The old legends tell that a hero, with the sacred turtle will save the world. Well, Neddie Wentworthstein is the guy with the turtle. Sandor Eucalyptus is the guy with the jellybean. Sholmos Bunyip wants the turtle . . . and he''ll stop at nothing to get it. This is the story of how Neddie, three good friends and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world. |
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Koertge, Ron
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Strays
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| Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers - Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta - and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him? |  |