Homeschooling Online - Top 20 Young Adult Books
(Source) The Seattle Public Library in Seattle, Washington has compiled a list of the top 20 young adult books of the 20th century. Homeschoolers can check their own local libraries for similar lists and help their children read through them. Be sure to discuss the books (you’ll have to read them yourself) and have your children explain why they liked, or didn’t like, the books, what they learned from them, what the major themes were, why the characters did what the did, and whether or not they were moral or immoral, and why. The Seattle Public Library’s list is below:
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
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