ED 337 804 CS 213 064 AUTHOR Nilsen, Aileen Pace, Ed. TITLE Your Reading: A Booklist for JuniOr High and Middle School Students. Eighth Edition. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-5940-0; ISSN-1051-4740 PUB DATE 91 NOTE 347p.y Prepared by the Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Booklist. For the previous edition, see ED 299 570. AVAILABLE FROMNational Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 59400-0015; $12.95 members, $16.95 nonmembers). PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC14 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Literature; Annotated Bibliographies; *Boots; Junior High Schools; Junior High School Students; *Literature Appreciation; Middle Schools; Reading Interests; Reuding Material Selection; Recreational Reading; Student Interests; *Supplementary Reading Materials IDENTIFIERS Middle School Students ABSTRACT This annotated bibliography for junior high and middle school students describes nearly 1,200 recent books to read for pleasure, for school assignments, or to satisfy curiosity. Books included are divided inco six Lajor sections (the first three contain mostly fiction and biographies): Connections, Understandings, Imaginings, Contemporary Poetry and Short Stories, Books to Help with Schoolwork, and Books Just for You. These major sections have been further subdivided into chapters; e.g. (1) Connecting with Ourselves: Accomplishments and Growing Up; (2) Connecting with Families: Close Relationships; (3) Connecting with Friends and Foes: School and Community Relationships; (4) Connecting with Boyfriends and Girlfriends: Love and Romance; (5) Understanding the Troubled: Problems; (6) Understanding Ourselves: Ethnic Relationships; (7) Understanding the Past: Realistic Books Set in the United States; (8) Understanding Others: People outside the United States; (9) Understanding Competition: Sports; (10) Understanding Wars: National and International Conflict; (11) Understanding Real People: Biographies and Biographical Fiction; (12) Imagining Our Fellow Creatures: Animals; (13) Imagining Excitement: Adventure Stories; (14) Imagining What If: Science Fiction and Fantasy; (15) Imagining Chills and Thrills: Mysteries and the Supernatural; (16) Imaginings from Our Ancestors: Classics, Myths, Legends, and Folklore; (17) Books of Poetry; (18) Collections of Short Stories; (19) Physical Sciences, Math, and Technology; (20) Natural Sciences; (21) Social Studies: Contemporary Lives and Issues; (22) History; (23) Language Arts, Drama, Music, Art, and Architecture; (24) Managing Your Life: Physical and Emotional Health; (25) How-To Books: Crafts, Hobbies, and Future Careers; and (26) Fun and Facts: Entertainment, Jokes, and Interesting Information. An appendix for teachers and librarians, a list of best books for 1988-90, a directory of publishers, and three indexes are attached. (SR) *.CtIL11.111LMI a S' 4. OMRTMENT OF Mon ot, Educator* EDUCATION "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Reemuch and Imomemeht MATERIAL HAS BEEN 0 NTED BY EDUCATtOttk RESOURCESINFORMATION CENTER (ERICT 171 Thaa document hasboon raproctucad as mama from the poisOrt onspnahno orgoortattort r M.hof changes hot,Itmon moat to improvo reindisCISOn QUO* POMO@ WOW at otemena stated MOM do hoe neoeseenlY 112 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES OCRS gemeon es poky Wiesen, dfltiteli INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Book list Aileen Pace Nilsen. Arizona State University, Chair Marie Donelson. Horizon High School. Paradise Valley, Arizona Maryann Eeds. Arizona State Univecsity. Tempe, Arizona Diane Freeman, Barry Goldwate. High School, Phoenix. Arizona June Harris. East Texas State University. Commerce. Texas Beverly Merrill. Mesa Arizona Public Schools. MeN3. Arizona Susan Rakow, Beachwood Middle School. Beachwood, Ohio Anne Sherrill. East Tennessee State University. Johnson City, Tennessee Mary-Lynn Thomas. Waukesha North High School. Milwaukee. Wisconsin C. AnneWebb, Buerkle Junior High School. St. Louis. Missouri Carole A. Williams, Mehlville School District. St. Louis. Missouri rSMABibliography Series Your Reading A Book list for Junior High and Middle School Students Eighth Edition Al leen Pace Nilsen, Editor, and the Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Book list of the National Council of Teachers of English National Council of Teachers of English 1111 Kenyon Road. Urb-..na. Illinois 61801 4 NCTE Editorial Board: Richard F. Abrahamson; Celia Genishi; Joyce Kinkead; Richard Lloyd-Jones; Gladys V. Veidemanis; Charles Suhor, Chair, ex officio: Michael Spooner, ex officio Staff Editors: Marya Ryan and Rona S. Smith Cover Design: It. Maul Interior Design: Tom Kovacs for TGK Design NCTE Stock Number 59400-3050 0 1991 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Your reading: a booklist for junior high and middle school students/ Aileen Pace Nilsen, editor, and the Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Book list of the National Ce-incil of Teachers of English. 8th ed. p. cm.-(NCTE bibliography series, ISSN 1051-4740) Includes indexes. Summary: An annotated booklist of recently published fiction and nonfiction for middle school and junior high students, arranged alphabetically by author under broad topical categories. ISBN 0-8141-5940-0 I. Children's literatureBibliography.2. Bibliography -Best booksChildren's literature.3. Junior high school students-- Books and ref.tding.4. Junior high school librariesBook lists. 5. School children.- - Books and reading.6. Middle school libraries Book lists.[1. BibliographyBest books.]1. Nilsen. Aileen Pace.H. National Council of Teachers of English. Committee on the Junior High and Middle School Booklist.III. Series. Z1037.Y68 1991 [PN1009.A1) 011.62'5 dc20 91-23533 CIP AC 5 Contents Ackrwwledgments vii Foreword ix Introduction for Young Readers xi I Connections 1 1. Connecting with Ourselves: Accomplishments and Growing Up 3 2. Connecting with Families: Close Relationships 12 3. Connect.ng with Friends and Foes: School and Community Relationships 33 4. Connecting with tioyfriends and Girlfriends: Love and Romance 50 II Understandings 59 5. Understanding the Troubled: Problems 61 6. Understanding Ourselves: Ethnic Relationships (Historical and Contemporary) 76 7. Understanding the Past: Realistic Books Set in the United States before 1960 82 8. Understanding Others: People outside the United States (Historical and Contemporary) 93 9. Understanding Competition: Sports 105 10. Understanding Wars: National and International Conflicts 116 11. Understanding Real People: Biographies and Biographical Fiction 124 III Imaginings 139 12. Imagining Our Fellow Creatures: Animals 141 13. Imagining Excitement: Adventure Stories 146 f; vi Contents 14. Imagining What If: Science Fiction and Fantasy 153 15. Imagining Chills and Thrills: Mysteries and the Supernatural174 16. Imaginings from Our Ancestors: Classics, Myths, Legends, and Folklore 193 IV Contemporary Poetry and Short Stories 205 17. Books of Poetry 207 18. Collections of Short Stories 214 V Books to Help with Schoolwork 223 19. Physical Sciences, Math, and Technology 225 20. Natural Sciences 232 21. Social Studies: Contemporary Lives and Issues 242 22. History 252 23. Language Arts, Drama, Music, Art, and Architecture 262 VI Books Just for You 269 24. Managing Your Life: Physical and Emotional Health 271 25. How-to Books: Crafts, Hobbies, and Future Careers 282 26. Fun and Facts: Entertainment, Jokes, and Interesting Information 290 Appendiv for Teachers and Librarians 297 Best Books for Young Teens 1990, 1989, and 1988 301 Directory of Publishers 305 Author Index 312 Title Index 320 Subject Index 333 Contributors 341 Acknowledgments Our first thanks must go to the publishers who over the course of the past three years provided us with so many review copies. Next are the readers and contributors, who range from committee members' colleagues to our students, our spouses, and our children. Anne Sherrill was especially persuasive in soliciting help from these book lovers in Tennessee: Anna Allred, Lisa A. Buchanan, Jean Roeder Darling, Carol Hitchcock, Mary D. Manning, Patti J. Patterson. Kim Salyer, and Charlotte M. Slagle. Susan Rakow's daughter, Rebecca Rakow, from Cleveland Heights. Ohio, both read and wrote for us, as did the following Arizonans: Karen Allen, Mary Beth Ander ly. Nancy J. Baniszewski, Marsha Batterberry. Norma Beauchat, Lisa Bessoff, Paula E. Blackham. Robin D. Bridges. Eliza G. Brunner, Barbara Buchanan, Robyn A. Burnham. Angela R. Calhoun, Mina R. Calvert, Stephen Carter, Catherine Castor. Melissa L. Chaney, Isabel E. Chan ley, Margaret Bird Christiansen, Liana Clarkson, Linda Copus, Mary S. Courtney, Alexa R. Cunningham, Karen Cun- ningham, Phyllis G. Clement, Karen Cure, Myra Dennis, Lisa C. Devine, Wilda Dick, Sally J. Dickman, Michelle Dittface, Mary Ann Eck, Christina Emmons, Faye Williams Fernando, Elaine Fisher, Karen Franevsky, David Gardner, Janice