which book(s) should i read for this class......?

Question

ok for ap junior english they gave us a list of summer books & we can pick a few to read, any of these you would suggest?:
Autobiography of Malcom X
October Sky
Black Boy
The Hunger of Memory
Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Nickel and Dimed
All the President's Men
A Hole in My Life


also, we can choose our own as long as they apply in some way to "The American Dream" and is comparable in merit to the other books on the list. any others you would suggest besides ones on the list that deal with this same topic?

thank you! : ]

Answer 1

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic novel that deals with the American dream. If you haven't read it already, your teacher would definitely approve it.

If I had to choose one from your list, I would pick Autobiography of Malcolm X. He lead a short but meaningful life and his biography is quite interesting. If you like the civil rights movement and everything that entails, I think you will enjoy reading about Malcolm X.

Answer 2

I examine maximum of those btwn seventh and eleventh grade. I dont comprehend what point they are, yet i comprehend that they are all fantastic!! the infants of the pink King with the aid of Jenny Nimmo: lifeless night for Charlie Bone Charlie Bone and the Time tornado Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy/the Blue Boa Charlie Bone and the fortress of Mirrors Charlie Bone and the Hidden King Charlie Bone and the Beast/the desert Wolf Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock Charlie Bone and the pink Knight Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The lightning thief the sea of monsters The Titan's Curse The conflict of the Labyrinth The final Olympian CHERUB with the aid of Robert Muchamore: The recruit type A optimum protection The Killing Divine insanity guy VS Beast the autumn Mad dogs The Sleepwalker dark solar the final Brigands MC Shadow Wave Henderson's Boys with the aid of Robert Muchamore: The escape Eagle Day the secret military Artemis fowl with the aid of Eoin Colfer: Artemis fowl The Arctic Incident The Eternity Code The Opal Deception The lost Colony The Time Paradox Atlantis complicated The Spiderwick Chronicles: the sphere instruction manual The Seeing Stone Lucinda’s secret The Ironwood Tree The Wrath of Mulgrath Alex Rider with the aid of Anthony Horowitz: Stormbreaker component sparkling Skeleton Key Eagle Strike Scorpia Ark Angel Snakehead Crocodile Tears His dark ingredients: The Golden Compass the gentle Knife The Amber Spyglass Lyras Oxford starvation video games with the aid of Suzanne Collins: starvation video games Caching hearth Alosha The Saktra The Yanti The CERUB sequence is the suitable with the aid of far even though it has some sexual content cloth and swear words. Its approximately an enterprise of youngster spies yet earlier you examine it first examine Henderson's Boys that explains how CHERUB all began it!! Alex rider is likewise approximately youngster spies yet in this sequence there is just one youngster secret agent: Alex Rider. Its all action and no romance in any respect. Artemis fowl is youngster criminal MasterMind. Percy Jackson is a demi God Charlie bone can shuttle with the aid of pictures! satisfied interpreting 8D! satisfied interpreting 8D

Answer 3

There are some wonderful books on your list. In a class by itself, I think, is Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. You'll learn about nature and yourself and, perhaps best of all, you'll enter the stimulating and comfortable world of author Annie Dillard.

Here, to tempt you, is the First Line: "I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest."

Answer 4

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Spectacular Fall of Enron, was a fantastic book about hubris and the capitalist system.

Answer 5

You've got to given Nickel and Dimed a try! It's a great book- Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover in various minimum-wage jobs to show how the working poor in America can never really attain the "American Dream,"
Here's the link to Wikipedia's synopsis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_And_Dimed

Answer 6

October Sky and All the President's Men were awesome. I haven't read the rest.

Answer 7

Sula by Toni Morrison

Answer 8

All the presidents men and October Sky are two I'm glad I've read.

Answer 9

October Sky sounds good, you may also look at Sea biscuit or any novel that a good movie like that is based on.

Answer 10

Read Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" or the "bible"