GT ELAR Required Reading List 2014-2015. First Semester Quarter 1: Choose any of the following books: The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida Bad Boy by.

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GT ELAR Required Reading List

First Semester Quarter 1: Choose any of the following books: The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida Bad Boy by Walter Dean Meyers Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro by Eduardo Calcines This novel will have separate response questions. Quarter 2: If you chose this, then read that: Uchida- read Journey to Topaz Meyers- read All the Right Stuff or another choice novel (must have parent and teacher approval) Calcines- read The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzales This novel choice will also have separate response questions.

Second Semester Quarter 3: Choose one of the following novels: Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Quarter 4: Choose one of the following novels: Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura al- Windawi Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang

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