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Books for You: a Reading List for Senior High School Biographies DOCUMENT RESUME ED 083 595 CS 200 743 AUTHOR Wilson, Jean A.; And Others TITLE Books for You: A Reading List for Senior High School Students. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill. PUB DATE 71 NOTE 343p. AVAILABLE FROMThe National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, Ill. 61801 (Stock No. 42402, $0.95 non-member, $0.85 member) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$13.16 DESCRIPTORS American Literature; *Annotated Bibliographies; Biographies; Classical Literature; *English Instruction; English Literature; Fiction; Literary Genres; *Literature; Literature Guides; Novels;- Reading; *Reading Materials; *Secondary School Students; Short Stories; Twentieth Century Literature ABSTRACT Prepared by an expert committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, this book represents the recommendations of scholars, teachers, librarians, and informed students as to what is of prime value to teenage readers. Over 2,000 titles in 45 different categories and subcategories are covered, together with brief commentaLy and annotation. Also included are two indexes, by title and by author, and a list of publishers' addresses. See ED 027 329 for original (1964) edition. (This document previously announced as ED 057 329.) (Author/DB) U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN Cr% ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE Lr%l SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF Pr.\ EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY co rz) BOOKS tz) FOR. YOU A Reading List for Senior High School Students JEAN A. WILSON Editorial Chairman and the Committee on the Senior High School Book List of the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS POCKET BOOKS NEW YORK FILMED FROM BEST AVAILABLECOPY BOOKS FOR YOU WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS edition published May, 1964 New, revised WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS edition published December, 1971 3rdprinting July,1972 Published by POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS editions are distributed in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 13320 and in Canada by Simon & Schu- ster of Canada, Ltd., Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Standard Book Number: 671-47840-0. Copyright,.:),1964,1971, byNationalCouncilofTeachers of ENglish. 911 rights reserved. Published on the ,nine day in Canada by Simon & SchusterofCanada,Ltd.,Ki,:mindHill,Ontario, Printed in the U.S.A. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPY- RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED By National Council o.0 Teachers of English TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NATIONAL IN- STITUTE OF EDUCATION. FURTHER REPRO- DLIC-;ON OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM RE- QUIRES PERMISSION OFTHE COPYRIGHT OWNER" ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editors and publishers wish to thank the following publishers, agents, artists, and authors for permission to use drawings and quotations in this book: Magazine Cartoonists Guild, Inc. for assistance in tracing rights and ownership of re- printed materials. Publishers-Hall Syndicate for permission to reprint a Reginald Smythe drawing from Meet Andy Capp, published by Fawcett Publica- tions, Inc. Pyramid Publications and the artist for permission to reprint a drawing by Joseph Serrano from Teen Power, Phil Hirsch, editor. Saturday Review, Inc. and the artists for the drawings by Ed Fisher, Sam Gross, Dave klufFuae, Burr Shafer, and James Weaver. Evelyn L. Shafer for permission to reprint drawings from the Burr Shafer series, "Through History with J. Wesley Smith." Teachers College Press for the quotations from This Is Reading by Frank G. Jennings. Arad all other publishers and agents who helped to trace rights and ownership to materials considered for reprinting. Credits appear on the page with the material used. National Council of Teachers of English Committee on the Senior High School Book List JEAN A. WILSON Oakland {California) Unified School District, Chairman MAXINE DELMARE- Texas A & I University, Associate Chairman JOHN W. CONNER University of Iowa BARBARA KAY DAVIDSON Pelham (New York) Memorial High School ROZANNE KNUDSON York College of the City University of New York ELENA R. LE BLANC Louisiana State University GENEVA HANNA PILGRIM University of Texas at Austin ANDREW J. PORTER Great Neck (New York) North Senior High School BETTY HARRELSON PORTER Arlington (Texas) High School STUART L. SHEELEY Indianapolis (Indiana) Public Schools HELEN HAMILTON SMITH Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri SISTER IMMACULATA, S.S.J. Victory Academy, Lackawanna, New York JOSEPHINE SWANSON Astoria (Oregon) High School MARION L. TRAHAN Oakland (California) Public Library, representing the Ameri- can Library Association JOHN C. MAXWELL Upper Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Minneap- olis, Minnesota, ex officio National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Publications ROBERT F. HOGAN NCTE Executive Secretary, Chairman 1 CHARLOTTE S. HUCK Ohio State University HENRY W. SAMS Pennsylvania State University MILDRED E. WEBSTER St. Joseph (Michigan) Senior High School ENID M. OLSON NCTE Director of Publications, 1960-1969 FOREWORD TO THE STUDENT 04hr4PO Book lists are promises. They promise to take the guess- work out of hunting for a good book. They promise to give the opinion of other readers about a book. They promise to steer you to the book you want for the purpose you have in reading. They promise to cut the waste time when you get hold of the wrong book. Book lists are promises of greater excitement and enjoyment in what you read. Book lists are personal. They represent the judgment of their compilers about books. They represent the taste of their compilers. The user has to learn what to expect from a list and to use it as it fits him. He may discover that the recommendations about the maturity level of a book are too high or too low for him. He may find a bias in the list toward romanticism, or toward realism, or toward existen- tialism. He may find the list more helpful for nonfiction than for fiction. It may be a list good for finding plays but not very good for finding poetry. Book lists are organized. So are libraries. Libraries are organized in large, broad categories. A book list is organized on a more personal and individual scale. Book lists bring together materials in new patterns. They try to guess the patterns in which people are apt to read. They make it pos- sible to find everything on a subject such as religion or the generation gap whether it is fiction, poetry, drama, or non- fiction. They cut across the divisions set up by libraries. Book lists are not reading. Anyone who uses book lists a great deal becomes familiar with a great number of titles of books that he has not actually read. If you thumb through this list over and over, titles become old friends. They be- come a part of your knowledge of the world of books. It is easy tv slide into thinking that you have read the books you have only read about. But the reality of a book is always different from someone's description of it. 1;ook lists are static. They are frozen at a given point in publishing history. The world of books is dynamic. It is ix x FOREWORD TO THE STUDENT constantly moving forward and changing. Tens of thousands of new books are published year by year. Beforea book list is in print, it is somewhat out of date. Don't confine your reading to any lict. Make discoveries and explorations on your own. Book lists are provocative. The reader always carrieson a silent debate with the compilers of the list. "Why did they ever put that title on the list? Why didn't they include this book?" This very process forces the readerto crystallize his own understandings of what he has formerlyread. Often the appearance of a title in a strangecategory on a book list gives the reader a new insight into the bookthat he has formerly missed. Book lists are made to serve the reader. Maythis one serve you. Let it become your slave. Don't becomea slave to it. G. ROBERT CARLSEN Iowa City, Iowa CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS V FOREWORD TO THE STUDENT EDITOR'S NOTE Xlll My.slety and Adventure 2 Family Circle . 15 Interesting People 23 Love and Romance 36 The Sea 43 The Sky 51 Sports 55 Under Twenty 63 Humor 73 What Is Important? 8o Man and Society 93 War 109 Science 116 Space and Time 121 Songs and Singers 126 Theater 143 Short Stories 151 Africa 161 Asia 167 I. THE FAR EAST 167 II. SOUTHEAST ASIA 171 III. SOUTH ASIA 173 IV. THE MIDDLE EAST 177 The Polar Regions 180 xi xii CONTENTS Canada 183 Latin America 186 Europe 191 I. WESTERN EUROPE 191 II. NORTHERN EUROPE 195 III: CENTRAL EUROPE 197 IV. SOUTHERN EUROPE 198 V. EASTERN EUROPE 200 Australia and the Islands of the Pacific 204 I. AUSTRALIA 204 IL THE ISLANDS OP THE PACIFIC 205 Continental United States 209 I. WONDROUS NEW LAND 209 IL FREEDOM'S FURY 212 III. WESTWARD 214 IV. NATIONAL DISAGREEMENT 219 V. FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA 224 VI. TWENTIETH CENTURY 228 Man's Yesterdays 237 I. THE DAWN OF THE WORLD 237 II. BIBLICAL TIMES 241 III. ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME 243 IV. FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD 246 Man's Language 253 AFTERWORD FOR THE TEACHER 263 NOTES 271 ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHERS 273 INDEX OF TITLES 281 INDEX OF AUTHORS 317 EDITOR'S NOTE The tasks of the Committee on the Senior High School Book List were the same as those for past committees: to determine which of the thousands of new books to add and which of the titles in previous list's to retain; to annotate and categorize the entries; to identify certain titles as being for the more mature reader (indicated by an asterisk); and to classify certain titles as being of marked literary quality (indicated by a dagger).
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