Contemporary Communications -- Jrs & Srs

Click a book title to read a parent-written review of the book with regard to profanity, sex, violence and/or other adult content. Click a column heading to sort the list. All of the books on this list have been used by Blue Valley Communication Arts (English) teachers.

Each teacher typically chooses around 6 novels to teach in any given year which are supposed to pass through a textbook selection policy filter BEFORE they are assigned as compulsory reading. But many teachers assign "pet" novels that have NOT been properly filtered, or which were retroactively added to the "approved" list in June of 2004.

The district's "approved booklist" was made available online in June 2004. Although a book may appear on this official "approved" list, it may NOT be age appropriate and may contain graphic content. For example, please click below on our review for Lords of Discipline.

Time-tested and world-renowned classics NOT used in the Blue Valley curriculum.

Click a book title link to read a parent-written review. Click a column heading to sort the list.

P S O None A few times Several times Many times or explicit NYR
Profanity (f-word, other obscenities) Sexually explicit materialOther Adult content (drugs, occult, suicide, extreme violence, or other adult issues that parents should know about before their children are immersed in them. Not Yet Rated
Title Author Date "Approved"
by district 		Class P S O
Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara 9/2000 12, CC
Art of Work Coleman, Roger 9/2000 CC
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 9/2000 12, 12AP, CC NYR
Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work Canfield Retroactively
approved on
6/2004		 CC NYR
Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur 9/2000 12, 12AP, CC NYR
Ender's Game Card, Orson 9/2000 CC
Fallen Angels Myers, Walter Dean 9/2000 12, CC
Lords of Discipline Conroy, Pat 9/2000 12, CC
One Minute Manager Blanchard, Kenneth 9/2000 CC NYR
This Boy's Life Wolff, Tobias 9/2000 CC
Tuesdays with Morrie Albom, Mitch 9/2000 12, CC