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This is a reading intensive course, and students will be reading an entire book every two weeks between classes (i.e. one full novel every two weeks) at home prior to our class meetings.
1 - 2 每週課外時間
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The book "content age ratings" are listed below with each of the book titles. Grown ups are encouraged to check out each of the book's rating content on "common sense media," prior to enrolling their student to ensure they are comfortable with the books we will be reading. All of the books rate in the 11+ to 14+ age range depending on the book.

Books that will need to be borrowed from the library or purchased for class are as follows:

1)  "Pirates!" Celia Rees (10+)
2)	“Fever 1793” Laurie Halse Anderson (10+) 
3)  "A Spy in the House," Y.S. Lee (13+)
4)	“The Witch of Blackbird Pond” Elizabeth George Speare (9+) 
5)	“Woods Runner” Gary Paulsen – (12+) 
6)	“Dread Nation” Justina Ireland – (13+) 
7)	“Dark Water Rising” Marian Hale   (11+)  
8)	“Uprising” Margaret P. Haddix – (11+)    
9)	“Luck of the Titanic” Stacey Lee – (12+) 
10)	“When the World Was Ours” Liz Kessler – (13+) 
11)	“The Book Thief” Markus Zusak (13+) 
12) "We Are Not Free," Traci Chee (13+)
13) "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two," Joseph Bruchac (12+)
14)	“The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963” Christopher Paul Curtis (10+) 
15)	“The Wednesday Wars” Gary D. Schmidt (10+) 
16) "For What it's Worth," Janet Tashjian  (12+)
17)	“Towers Falling” Jewell Parker Rhodes  (10+)
18) "An Emotion of Great Delight," Tahereh Mafi (13+)