Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme created and hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week's Top Ten Tuesday is about the top ten books I was "forced" to read.
Required reading, recommended reading; anything like that goes, right? In middle school there were things that required/highly recommend that we read 10 books though I can't remember it that well. I remember starting the Charlie Bone series because of it and reading Milkweed so I'll start the list!
- Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Discovery by Gordon Korman
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
- Blue Fingers by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
Sadly, this is all I can remember having to read throughout middle and high school. Charlie Bone, Blue Fingers and The Discovery really inspired/motivated me to read more. I read a lot in middle school but stopped in high school. Did anyone else have to read some of these.. less known titles?
I finally got my hands on Midnight for Charlie Bone! =O Remember when I was talking to you about reading the books? Soon I'm gonna~
ReplyDeleteI need to read Stargirl by Spinelli. I've read some good things about it. I also need to get Animal Farm at some point. My brother had a copy for required reading in high school, but he gave it to the school for extra points in that class (boo! =[).
Heck yeah! I love the Charlie Bone series. It gets a lot of shade for being like Harry Potter, but now that I've read Harry Potter I can say the only big similarities are that they're both about really young magical boys. As far as I know, Charlie Bone is a lot lighter... HP seems kind of dark..
DeleteI don't think I've heard of Stargirl! I read Loser (though I can't remember it) and Milkweed and I really, really enjoyed Milkweed. I used to read a lot of historical fiction when I was younger.
Oh, we had school copies to read and a lot of it was summarizing and then we watched a movie and /sigh. School really doesn't understand how important books are!