[8th Gr Books]    [9th Gr Books]     [10th Gr Books]     [11th/12th Gr Books]                   [Title Index]     [Difficulty Levels]    [Genres]

 

IJ

 

Poetry ] [ A ] [ B ] [ C ] [ D ] [ E F ] [ G ] [ H ] [ I J ] [ K ] [ L ] [ M ] [ NO ] [ P ] [ QR ] [ S ] [ T ] [ UV ] [ W ] [ XYZ ] 

 

10

 For Advanced Readers 

«««««

Jacobs.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.  

««««« Morgan, 11th grade 

Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813. Her struggles as a slave and a mother have torn her. Divided by her desire to run away and to protect her children led her to live in an attic for seven years. This book takes you on a journey through the hardest and most painful times of her life to the happiest and joyful times in this woman’s’ life.  This book was an okay read; if you like non-fiction books and history then try reading this book. It only received two stars because there were too many characters to keep track of and it seemed very slow at times. 

 

4

  Very Easy 

376 pgs 

Jacques, Brian.  Mossflower.  New York: Avon Books.

ÙÙ Mr. Greenlee

 I put off reading this book for a long time because the characters were animals, but it had a great reputation as a well-written book, a classic of animal fantasy.  I finally started it, but I gave it up, not because the characters were animals, but because they were phony.  Both the thief and the warrior as heroes reminded me of RPG characters, and while they both had histories sketched out, the portrayal of their characters seemed contrived: the constant "matey" and exuberance of the thief was especially overdone, and the unrelenting bravado of the warrior was the same fault to a lesser degree.  

4

  Very Easy 

351 pgs, 800L 

Jacques, Brian. Redwall.  New York: Avon Books.

1170L

ÙÙÙÙÙ

James, Henry.  The Turn of the Screw. 

6

Fairly Easy

 

ÙÙÙÙÙ

 

Troubled Teens

Jenkins, A. M.  Breaking Boxes.  New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf. 

ÙÙÙÙÙ Jason P., senior

Charlie is a teenager that doesn’t have any friends.  His parents are both gone and he lives with his brother.  One day at school, he gets in a fight with another teen named Brandon, and they both get in school suspension.  While in detention they begin to realize that they don’t really hate each other, but could actually be good friends.  The problem is Brandon hangs out with the rich kids.  When they begin to hang out, Charlie finds Brandon to be a real person, despite his social mask.  They shoot hoops, drive around in Brandon’s Corvette, and check out chicks.  Just as they begin to become close friends Brandon learns something about Charlie’s family that questions what he believes in.   

7

 Moderately difficult 

271 pgs 

ÙÙÙÙÙ

Teen historical

Jiang, Ji li. Red Scarf Girl.  

ÙÙÙÙÙ Mr. Greenlee

What a horrible cover!  No wonder so few people choose this.  It reads, however, like an Anne Frank of Communist China - a pretty good book.  It begins as she graduates sixth grade, when her society starts falling apart.  pretty soon, people are after her parents and even her. 

National Book Award

Winner / Most Honored

Jin, Ha.   Waiting.  

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young—a humble and touchingly loyal woman.   A man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.

 

National Book Award

Winner / Most Honored

Johnson, Charles.  Middle Passage.  

It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a daring voyage of horror and self-discovery. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative, and philosophical novel.

 

National Book Award

Winner / Most Honored

Jones, Edward P.  The Known World.  

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor—William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia’s Manchester County.  Under Robbins’s tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation—as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one…

 

National Book Award

Winner / Most Honored

Jones, James.  From Here To Eternity.  

Set in the summer and autumn of 1941 at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, former bugler Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, an infantryman from Kentucky and a self-described "thirty-year man", struggles with his superiors.  Because he blinded a fellow soldier while boxing, the stubborn Prewitt refuses to box for his company’s outfit and then resists the "Treatment," a daily hazing ritual in which the non-commissioned officers of his company run him into the ground.  The story also follows several other members of G Company, including Captain Dana “Dynamite” Holmes and First Sergeant Milt Warden, who begins an affair with Holmes's wife Karen.

 

 

  Ireland, autobiography

Joyce, James.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.    

 

[8th Gr Books]    [9th Gr Books]     [10th Gr Books]     [11th/12th Gr Books]             [Favorites]   [New]    [Genres]   [Title Index]   

 

IJ

 

Poetry ] [ A ] [ B ] [ C ] [ D ] [ E F ] [ G ] [ H ] [ I J ] [ K ] [ L ] [ M ] [ NO ] [ P ] [ QR ] [ S ] [ T ] [ UV ] [ W ] [ XYZ ]