Anonymous
Post 10/17/2023 09:36     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Flowers for Algernon is excellent
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2023 09:11     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
A separate peace one of my favs.

Look at the reading lists of some Catholic girls high schools (oakcrest, visitation, etc) for ideas
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2023 21:49     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:Oh I still love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! What about Age of Innocence?


These don't seem like they would be appropriate for the same reader
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2023 22:27     Subject: Re:Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:At that age, I loved the following classics:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Dracula by Bram Stoker (I had a copy with extensive footnotes of historical and literary info when I was 14 and I loved the book so much)

The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer (technically two books, but it's all one story and I had a copy that was just both stories back to back)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I also liked books by Kurt Vonnegut at that age.


Wow, I live so many of these books, but I struggled with the Odyssey in college.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2023 13:18     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Oh I still love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! What about Age of Innocence?
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 22:44     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:Ethan Frome


Please do not give this to a 14 year old. Soooo depressing!
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 22:43     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gatsby is a bit racy and gory.


I have read this book several times. I still do not understand why it is in the running for best American novel. It was profoundly boring in high school. I can't imagine a girl that age truly enjoying it. Fitzgerald's stories are far more captivating.


I was a HS English teacher at a title one high school and the kids loves reading the great gatsby. It took us a long time to get through but they loved the rich excess and throwing money around.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2023 17:19     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Going off of

Witch of Blackbird Pond (great pull)
I remember also reading

Julie of the Wolves
The Steppe
Island of the blue dolphins
The Keeping Days

Will try to think of others. They may be neweberry award winners and not classics


The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Julie of the Wolves, and Island of the Blue Dolphins are novels my 5th grade AAP students were reading. Recommending these for an advanced 8th grader is beyond ridiculous.

+1 I read The Island of Blue Dolphins in 5th grade.
Anonymous
Post 10/07/2023 23:18     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet are commonly taught to younger readers.
also Julius ceaser if you dont want to explore all the sex/sexual innuendo in the other 2.
Anonymous
Post 10/07/2023 13:25     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Wuthering Heights, This Side of Paradise, Gone With the Wind, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I liked these around that age.
Anonymous
Post 10/07/2023 13:21     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:Going off of

Witch of Blackbird Pond (great pull)
I remember also reading

Julie of the Wolves
The Steppe
Island of the blue dolphins
The Keeping Days

Will try to think of others. They may be neweberry award winners and not classics


The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Julie of the Wolves, and Island of the Blue Dolphins are novels my 5th grade AAP students were reading. Recommending these for an advanced 8th grader is beyond ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2023 21:33     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
The Outsiders is what the 8th grade honors class I subbed in recently was reading.
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2023 21:26     Subject: Re:Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
At that age, I loved the following classics:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Dracula by Bram Stoker (I had a copy with extensive footnotes of historical and literary info when I was 14 and I loved the book so much)

The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer (technically two books, but it's all one story and I had a copy that was just both stories back to back)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I also liked books by Kurt Vonnegut at that age.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:52     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Anonymous wrote:Going off of

Witch of Blackbird Pond (great pull)
I remember also reading

Julie of the Wolves
The Steppe
Island of the blue dolphins
The Keeping Days

Will try to think of others. They may be neweberry award winners and not classics


Sarah Bishop. I loved this book. I also love The Steppe as a kid/teen. Still remember the red sweater she knit for the rich lady in town.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2023 11:39     Subject: Can you suggest four CLASSIC books for a 14y old girl, 8th grader?
Including some "new classics" which a lot of middle schoolers read for school or independently and your daughter should read if she hasn't...

A Wrinkle in Time
Wonder
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Hunger Games
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Little Women
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Fault in Our Stars
I Am Malala
The New Kid
Ghost
The House on Mango Street