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SIGN OF THE MF'n BEAVER!!!When I was super little: Where The Wild Things Are
Pre-Teen/Teen (no order)
1984
Lord Of The Flies
Lord Of The Rings
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Sign Of The Beaver
Tuck Everlasting
The Hobbit
The Once And Future King
Also in terms of books I read about African American experiences/characters and recommend for parents on The Coli looking for something your kid can read:
M.C. Higgins The Great
Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home.
M.C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he sees it -- two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered.
Scorpions
The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence in the inner city. Pushed by the bully, Dwayne, to fight, and nagged by the principal, Mr. Davidson, Jamal is having a difficult time staying in school. His home life is not much better, with his mother working her fingers to the bone to try to earn the money for an appeal for Jamal's older brother, Randy, who is in jail. The leader of the Scorpions, Randy wants Jamal to take his place until he is free, but the other gang members, especially Angel and Indian, don't like the idea. Only Mack thinks Jamal should be the leader, and it is Mack who gets Jamal a gun.
Jamal wants to do the right thing and earn the money to free his brother by working, but he is afraid to go against the Scorpions. He longs to get rid of the gun, but part of him just can't bring himself to do it. As things heat up within the gang, everything comes to a boil when Mack kills Angel and Indian is thrown in jail. Jamal eventually pulls free of the gang's bad influence, but only through the narrowest of escapes.
Five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, Walter Dean Myers has written a chillingly real depiction of the inverted values of poverty-stricken teens. The relationship between Jamal and Tito sensitively explores the loyalty and love between best friends faced with some hard choices. This Newberry Honor Book will challenge young men to consider their own decisions as they come of age in a complex and often frustrating society.
Yo I had a Conan choose your own adventure book. shyt was dope.This thread reminded me of a bunch of others
Alex Rider aka the James Bond for kids
The Choose Your Own Adventure books were the shyt. In elementary school our teacher would read them out loud and let us decide what to choose. I miss elemtary school
The I Spy books in my library were damn near impossible to find. They were always checked out
