These are the books that DeJesus English Classes students talked about when they came to the Library on Monday, Sept. 20th.
But first, a chart of their favorite genres. (There were about 50 students surveyed, many of them have more than one favorite genres, so the total numbers are larger than 50.)
The main reasons that they enjoyed these books are (in order of the frequency cited as the major reasons of why the students liked a particular book):
- Exciting and Fast Paced (28%)
- Suspenseful and/or Scary (27%)
- Inventive or Imaginative (13%)
- Meaningful and Deep (12%)
- Well Written (Vocab., Descriptions, etc.) (12%)
- Characters that one admires or relates to (8%)
Freedom Riders
Heir Apparent by Van Velde
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney
Uglies by Westerfeld
Kiki Strike #2 by Miller
Hunger Games Trilogy by Collins
Crocodile Tears by Horowitz
Sea of Trolls by Farmer
When You Reach Me by Stead
Percy Jackson series by Riordan
Harry Potter series by Rowling
Icefire by d’Lacey
The City of Ember by DuPrau
Pretty Little Liars by Shepard
Thirteen Reasons Why by Asher
Hatchet by Paulsen
Vampire Diaries by Smith
The Last Book in the Universe by Philbrick
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Stewart
The Tulip Touch by Fine
Ways to Live Forever by Nicholls
Beautiful Creatures by Garcia
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Yolen
Oddballs by Sleator
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Lee
The Year I Turned 16 by Schwemm
The Maze Runner by Dashner
The Last Battle by Lewis
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Selznick
The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Nixon
The Stand by King
Handle with Care by Picoult
Thirteen Plus One by Myracle
Jade Green by Naylor
Everything on a Waffle by Horvath
Million Dollar Throw by Gutman
The Giver by Lowry
