Hello!
My fiancé is graduating with his degree in English Education this Friday and is hoping to find a job teaching high school English. (Ages 14-18ish)
I am looking for suggestions of books we should get to stock his classroom library! I have no idea what is popular with teenagers right now at all so we are a bit stumped. We also aren’t sure what things are appropriate to put in his library because we definitely did not stick to Young Adult books at that age.
He is also getting certified to teach middle school english as well as a fallback so suggestions for that are helpful too! (Ages 11-13ish)
Thanks for any help!!!
by thedevilgamer0
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Did you all have classroom libraries in middle/high school ages? If so, I’m majorly jealous. I loved having classroom libraries in elementary school in addition to just the school libraries.
The only books that were classroom-provided for me in middle and high school were directly part of the curriculum.
A Crane Among Wolves- June Hurr
Words on the bathroom walls
Fahrenheit 451
Anything by John Green
The summer I turned pretty
Ready player one
All the light we can not see
About to graduate high school and am an avid reader so… I’m just gonna dump a bunch of books that I love rn:
* Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
* Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
* The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
* Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
* The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
* Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
* Lies My Teacher Taught Me
* Second Nature by Nathaniel Rich
* The Power by Naomi Alderman
* Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
* The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
* All Percy Jackson/Rick Riordan books (they’re more middle grades but are classics!)
* Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
* The One and Only Ivan series (mg caveat applies here too)
* Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss
* Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coats
It should be noted that many of these books are queer or politically left leaning and if he is in the US and working at a public high school, in some states, he could get in big trouble for advertising it as a ‘class library’ and having these books on the shelves. So that’s something to sadly have to be aware of 🙁