Great books for high school kids: a teacher's guide to books that can change teens' lives

Overcoming childhood

Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina

Amy Crawford : great books about childhood stories

Amy Crawford : great books about abuse and recovery

Can you find your future in your past?

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Dean Blase : great books about legacies : the identities we inherit from the past

Dean Blase : great books about the political struggle for freedom

How dangerous can a book be?

Mark Twain's The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Emily Donaldson : great books about talking back : making moral choices in an immoral world

Emily Donaldson : great books about journey to adulthood

Suffering unto truth : do you think your future is fated?

Aeschylus's Oresteia

Rick Ayers : great books about Hubris and Nemesis

Rick Ayers : great books about is your future fated?

Rick Ayers : great books about the cycle of violence

Spiritual journeys : what is the path to enlightenment?

Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima

Bonnie Katzive : great books about spiritual journeys

Bonnie Katzive : great books about fathers and sons

Culture and survival

Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues

Sarah Talbot : great books about history reimagined

Sarah Talbot : great books about gotta laugh to keep from crying

Sarah Talbot : great books about cultural survival

True war stories : how do you know what happened if all you did was see it?

Tim O'Brien's The things they carried

Lauren Jackson and Alan James : great books about true war stories

Lauren Jackson and Alan James : great books about parallel universes of human experience

Lauren Jackson and Alan James : great books about the Rashomon effect : fiction and nonfiction told from shifting perspectives

Recommended great books for high school kids.