From: Bob_Pettapiece@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Northern H.S., Detroit, Mi.
For those interested in my book list:
This is my updated version! The one transmitted to a few of you earli er had only half the entries. Again, the reading level varies, but almost all w ere suggested for use in class- in whole or in part. The authors w/o a title were suggestions of mine not chosen by my students in my Master's class. Enjoy!!
Achebe, Chinua; Man of the People, A
Achebe, Chinua; Things Fall Apart
Adams, John G. ; Without Precedent
Allen, Frederick; Only Yesterday
Angelou, Maya; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ashe, Arthur; Days of Grace
Bachmann, Steven; US Constitution for Beginners
Bell, Leland V.; In Hitler's Shadow, The Anatomy of American Nazism
Bennet, Jack; Gallipoli
Blassingame, William; Slave Community
Bleoins, Winfred; Charbonneau, Man of Two Dreams
Boiler, Paul F. ; A More Perfect Union-Documents in US. History
Bosch, Martin; Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
Brecher, Childs, Cutler; Global Visions, Beyond the New World Order
Brent, Linda; Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Brown, Flaven, Postel; Saving the Planet
Brown, Larry; Dirty Work
Caputo, Philip; A Rumor of War
Carter, Jimmy; Talking Peace
Cisernos, Sandra; The House on Mango Street
Clancy, Tom;
Clapp, Patricia; Witches Children
Coerr, Elanor; Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes
Colgrove, Melba, etal.; How to Survive the Loss of a Love
Collier, James; My Brother Sam is Dead
Collier, Peter; Fords
Cook, Blanche Wiesen; Eleanore Rooseveldt, Vol.I
Cox, Charles; Young Man in Vietnam
Crane, Stephen; The Red Badge of Courage
Crichton, Michael;
Davis, Burke; Black Heros of the Am. Rev.
Davis, Kenneth; Don't Know Much About History
Delsman, Mary A.; Everything You Need to Know about ERA
Douglas, Frederick; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.
Douglas, Frederick; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Eisenberg, Lisa; The Story of Sitting Bull, Great Sioux Chief
Fast, Howard; April Morning
Fast, Howard; April Morning
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Coney Island of the Mind, A
Finney, Jack; Time and Again: An Illustrated Novel.
Forbes, Esther; Johnny Tremain
Force, R.; The American Indians
Forman, James; Horses of Anger
Freedman, Russell; Cowboys of the Wild West
Ginsburg, Eugenia; Whirlwind Journey into the World
Green, Hannah; I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Grisham, John; A Time to Kill
Gross, Robert A.; The Minutemen and Their World
Haley, Alex; Malcolm X
Harlan, L.R.; Making of a Leader, Booker T. Washington
Harrington, Michael; New American Poverty, The
Harris, Eddy; Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey . . .
Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Scarlet Letter
Hayden, Robert C.; Seven African American Scientists
Hershey, John; Hiroshima
Hurmence, Belinda (Ed.); Before Freedom
Jackson, Kenneth; Crabgrass Frontier
Jensen, Oliver; B. Catton's America
Johnson, James Weldon; Ex-Couloured Man
Katz, William; The Black West
Katz, William Loren; The Black West
Kennealy, Thomas; Schindler's List
Kennedy, Robert F.; Thirteen Days, a Memoir of the Cuban Missle Crisis
Kirst, Hans; Soldier's Revolt
Krass, Peter; Sojourner Truth, Antislavery Activist
Lester, Julius; To Be A Slave
Levitin, Sonia; Journey to America
Limbaugh, Rush; See, I told You So
Livesay, Harold; Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
Mac Gregor, James; Roosevelt the Lion and the Fox
Machiavelli, Niccolo; Prince, The
Machivelli, Nicols; The Prince
Manchester, William; World Lit Only By Fire, A
Maruki, Toshi; Hiroshima No Pika
May, Elaine Tyler; Homeward Bound
Maya, Angelou; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
McCullough, David; Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Mcluhan, T.C.; Touch the Earth: Self-Portrait of Indian Experience
McSwigan, Marie; Snow Treasure
Michener, James A.; The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Miklowitz, Gloria; The War Between the Classes
Miller, Robert; Reflections of a Black Cowboy
Miller, Sudish; Saddam Hussin & Crisis in the Gulf
Miriam, Makeba; Makeba, My Story
Morgan, Edmund S.; The Puritan Dilemma
Morimoto, Junko; My Hiroshima
Morrison, John; Boris Yeltsin-From Bolshevik to Democrat
Niane, D.T.; Sundiata, Epic
Nichols, Roy F. ; Stakes of Power: 1845-1877, The
Orwell, George; Animal Farm
Padover, Saul (Ed.); Thomas Jefferson on Democracy
Peterson, Jacqueline; The People In Between
Rink, Paul; In Defense of Freedom: Story of the Monroe Doctrine
Rosenberg, Charles; The Cholera Years
Roth, David; Sacred Honor
Rouverol, Jean; Juarez: A Son of the People
Rowen, Carl; Dream Makers, Dream Breakers
Sampson, Anthony; The Seven Sisters
Shaara, Michael; The Killer Angels
Sillitoe, Alan; Sunday Morning, Saturday Night
Sinclair, Upton; The Jungle
Smith, Wilbur; River God
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Steinbeck, John; The Grapes of Wrath
Stern, Ellen Morman; Elie Weisel & Witness for Life
Sterne, Emma G.; The Slave Ship
Stiles, Bert; Serenade to the Big Bird
Stoessinger, John; Crusaders and Pragmatists
Stowe, Harriet B. ; Uncle Tom's Cabin
Szasa, Margaret Connel; Between Indian & White Worlds
Tannen, Deborah; You Just Don't Understand
Taylor, A.J.P.; War Lords, The
Terkle, Studs;
Tuchman, Barbara; Zimmerman Telegram
Tyrthall, J.W.D.; El Caudillo-A Political Biography of Franco
Van Duyn Southworth; Monarch and Conspirators: Wives . . . of Henry VIII
VanDevanter, Lynda; Home Before Morning
VanSertima, Ivan; They Came Before Columbus
VanSertima, Ivan (Ed.); African Presecence in Early Am.
Washington, Margaret; Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Weisbrot, Robert; Father Divine
Weisel, Elie; The Forgotten
Wheeler, ; Immigrant Experience, The
Wickens, James F.; Themes in United States History
Wiesel, Elie; Night
Wolf, Stephanie; As Various as Their Land
Worth, Richard; Israel and Arab State
Wright, Richard; Black Boy
Yool, George M.; 1692 Witch Hunt
Please forgive a few double entries. This is the unedited version.
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