Books and Reviews -- Blue Valley "Other" List
All of these books have been assigned without any regard to internal Blue Valley textbook selection policies by Blue Valley Communication Arts teachers over the past two school years.
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| All of these books are on this list because they have been on Blue Valley Communication Arts course directives or teacher-provided class reading lists in either the 2003-2004 or 2004-2005 school year. Therefore, although all of these books have been used or promoted as textbooks for graded assignments, NONE of these books have been evaluated by any sort of formal internal textbook selection process as promised by Blue Valley textbook selection policy 4600. | Click here for class codes. | |
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| All Over but the Shoutin' | Bragg | ? | 11 | |
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| Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned | Mosley, Walter | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Bastard out of Carolina | Allison, Dorothy | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Be True to Your School | Greene, Bob | ? West J | 11-12 | |
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| Bird by Bird | Lamott, Anne | ? | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| Black Box | Ox, Amos | ? North | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| Bluesman | Dubus, Andre | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Bluest Eye | Morrison, Toni | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut, Kurt | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Ceremony | Silko | West CA III Literature Circle | 11 | |
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| Combatting Cult Mind Control | Hassan, Steven | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Dandelion Wine | Bradbury, Ray | ? | 9 | |
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| Ditchdigger's Daughters | Thornton, Yvonne | ? | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Zindel, Paul | ? | 9 | NYR | ||||
| Fallen Angels | Myers, Walter Dean | 9/2000 | 12, CC | |
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| Ella Minnow Pea | Dunn, Mark | ? | 11 | |
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| Friday Night Lights | Bissinger, H.G. | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Going After Cacciato | O'Brien, Tim | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Goodnight, Nebraska | McNeal, Tom | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Great Santini | Conroy, Pat | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Hoop Dreams | Joravsky, Ben | ? North | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | Alvarez, Julia | ? North | 11-12 | |
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| Hunger Memory | Rodriguez, Richard | ? | 11 | NYR | ||||
| Huntsmen | Terrell, Whitney | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Into Thin Air | Krakauer, John | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Malcolm X | ? | 11 | NYR | |||||
| Maltese Falcon (The) | Hammett, Dashiell | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | Sedaris, David | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Modest Proposal | Swift, Jonathan | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| My Losing Season | Conroy, Pat | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Native Son | Wright, Richard | ? North AP IV | 12 | |
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| October Suite | Clair, Maxine | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| On the Road | Kerouac, Jack | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | ? | 12 | |
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| Outbreak | Cook, Robin | ? | 12 | |||||
| Picture Bride | Uchida, Yoshiko | ? | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| Plainsong | Haruf, Kent | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver, Barbara | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Power of One | Courtenay, Bryce | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving, John | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Ragtime | Doctorow, E.L. | ? West CA IV | 12 | |
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| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Nafisi, Azar | ? North AP III | 11 | NYR | ||||
| Reservation Blues | Alexie, Sherman | ? | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Stoppard, Tom | ? North AP II | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Rule of the Bone | Banks, Russell | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Secret Diary of Adrian Mole | Townsend, Sue | ? | 9 | |
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| Secret Life of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | ? 2005 Summer Reading | 10 | |
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| Sister Carrie | Dreiser, Theodore | ? North AP IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Somebody Told Me | Bragg, Rick | ? | 11-12 | |
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| Sophie's Choice | Styron, William | ? | 11-12 | NYR | ||||
| Sweet Hereafter | Banks, Russell | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Things They Carried | O'Brien, Tim | ? | 11-12 | |
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| Tomato Red | Woodrell, Daniel | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Water is Wide | Conroy, Pat | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR | ||||
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Rhys, Jean | ? | 12 | |
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| Woman Warrior | Kingston, Maxine Hong | ? | 11 | |
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| Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town | Guidry, Jacqueline | ? West CA IV | 12 | NYR |