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Each quarter, you will read an extra book*, usually of your choice. It must be a book you have not read before, and you must have it approved by Mr. Slater or Mrs. Marshall. Upon completion, you will either post about the book on Google Classroom as a comment on a post there.
*You may choose, if approved, to do a Writer's Notebook instead of reading an independent book.
*If you choose an AP book, you will receive an extra entry in our behavior prize drawing.
Gifted Students' Favorite Books and Authors (Davidson Institute)
Abbot, Edwin A.
Asimov, Isaac
Bach, Richard
Bakker, Robert T.
Beagle, Peter S.
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Card, Orson Scott
Christopher, John
Colfer, Eoin
Collodi, Carlo
Cooper, Susan
D’Aulaire, Ingrid & D’Aulaire
Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths
Dickens, Charles
Duane, Diane
Eager, Edward
Fletcher, Susan
Gardner, James Finn
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Golden, Arthur
Grandin, Temple
Heinlein, Robert A.
Henderson, Zenna
Hesse, Herman
Ibbotson, Eva
Juster, Norton
Keyes, Daniel
L’Engle, Madeleine
Levi, Primo
Levine, Gail Carson
Lewis, C.S.
Lightman, Alan
Lofting, Hugh
Milne, A.A. & Shepard. E.
The Complete Poems of Winnie the Pooh
Morgenstern, S. (really William Goldman)
The Princess Bride "Good Parts" Version
Nix, Garth
Orwell, George
Pullman, Philip
Pratchett, Terry
Rand, Ayn
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Rowling, J.K.
Sachar, Louis
Sagan, Carl
Shelley, Mary
Shinn, Sharon
Smith, Dodie
Snicket, Lemony
A Series of Unfortunate Events books
Spyri, Johanna
Steinbeck, John
Stroud, Jonathan
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Wrede, Patricia
Zahn, Timothy
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