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How about we come up with some categories we need help with?

//Full Tilt// by Neal Shusterman (colors and amusement park rides are symbolic) //Golden// by Jennifer Barnes (colors again.)
 * Books with strong symbols/symbolism**

//Fire From the Rock// by Sharon Draper (Central High School integration in Little Rock)
 * Compatible books for Roll of Thunder (racism, prejudice etc)**


 * New Holocaust resources (nonfic)**

//The Silenced// by James DeVita
 * Holocaust fiction**

//Football Genius// by Tim Greene
 * Sports Fiction**

Homeless Bird - Gloria Whelan Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer Confessions of a Closet Catholic - Sarah Littman (easier reading level) The Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy When She was White, Judith Stone The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros Inventing Elliot, Graham Gardner When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeraldo Santiago How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez A Separate Peace, John Knowles My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult New Boy, Julian Houston A Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's story by Pegi Deitz Shea The Gospel According To Larry by Janet Tashjian Godless by Pete Hautman The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman Pool Boy by Michael Simmons Incantation by Alice Hoffman Geek Magnet by Kieran Scott Schooled by Gordon Korman Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper Perfect by Natasha Friend Split Image by Mel Glenn (very short, written in poems, multiple voices) Heroes by Robert Cormier Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (and Love Stargirl, the sequel) Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (excellent, won the National Book Award, but has language and some minor adolescent sex stuff in it) Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin The Man With the Red Bag by Eve Bunting (very easy) Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
 * Identity Fiction/Nonfiction**