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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might ask for an alternate book just to avoid reading a novel in verse, which my kid hates as much as I do.

I'm very left wing, but I'm actually a little disappointed that the schools are trending so hard away from reading the classics.  I feel like kids will have lots of opportunities to read the controversial new lit-crit darling books.  But when will they read The Grapes of Wrath, or The Crucible, Slaughterhouse Five, or Long Day's Journey Into Night, or anything by Hemingway or Wharton?  (Seems like some of the classics, like Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Toni Morrison continue to be popular among schools.)  I subscribe to the "Make New Friends, But Keep the Old" theory of literature -- I feel like we are tossing out all the old friends.  It would be easier to mix in the new ones if kids read 6 novels a year, but it seems like a lot of classes really only have 2-3, plus maybe some poems or short stories.
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Have them read these classics on their own. 
This summer, my ninth grade child read [i]Scarlett Letter, As the Bell Tolls, [/i] and [i] The Crucible.[/i]  Last summer, she read [i] Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, Old Man and the Sea, [/i] and [i]Of Mice and Men.[/i] She likes to shop the bookshelves in our family room, and she found most of these on our shelves. We only had to download one.[/quote]

List.  If you had such books around you would know the actual titles.  Such as For Whom the Bell Tolls.  Not to mention your dislike of “The.”[/quote]

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