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I will do my best to give you your first novel choice, but please be aware that the four novel groups must have relatively equal numbers of students and I will arrange things accordingly.
Your books will be available for sign out on Thursday in the library during our class time.
Tuesdays with MorrieBy: Mitch Albom
Based on a True Story
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of Mitch and Morrie’s time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Fallen AngelsBy: Walter Dean Myers
Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There’s no way he can afford college, and the streets are just too hard. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death, he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner. They’re all here for different reasons, but now they share a single dream – getting out alive.
Finding FishBy: Anwone Fisher
A True Story
Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, Antwone enlisted in the U.S. Navy – a decision that would ultimately save him. There, he became a man and discovered a loving family he never had. Through it all, Antwone refused to allow his spirit to be broken and never gave up his dreams of a better day.
Keeper N Me
By: Richard Wagamese
Fiction
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.
Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family.
The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway--both ancient and modern--by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people’s ways.
