My family does "Poetry Tea Time" as a part of our homeschooling and we read "Applesauce Weather" which is a book told in poem. I love it so much! It is very good and a page-turner!

Oh, yeah, I read the Outsiders earlier this year. It was really good, especially for a book you read in school. I'm pretty sure it's practically a law that everyone has to read it in middle school, and I see why.

This year we've read Esperanza Rising and Blood on the River.

Last year we read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and On My Honor. There was another but I can't remember...

Third grade we read How to Steal a Dog and somthing else I can't remember.

In the past few years, I've read the following in school:

- The Giver by Lois Lowry, which I really enjoyed and would highly recommend! Most of my classmates found this to be dystopian, but I consider it utopian... I'd love to have a debate about it if anyone's interested!

- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which I didn't enjoy, per se, but found meaningful. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't read it for school, to be honest.

- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, which I loved and highly, highly recommend! It's really well-written and often infuriating, and it taught me a ton about the criminal justice system and injustice in America. This was the book that first made me want to be a lawyer. (Note that there's a YA version and an adult version; either, but especially the adult version, might not be appropriate for everyone on the CB, so check with your parents before reading it.)

- Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K LeGuin, which I actually enjoyed more reading in school than I would have otherwise! It has some really meaningful and relevant quotes, like "In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."

- Maus by Art Spiegelman, which is a graphic novel, and which I didn't particularly enjoy, but that might have been because we were forced to read it really s l o w l y and look for the effects of shading and layout and other boring, pointless things.

I'm rather old, so I've read a lot of books for school. Please note that these may not be appropriate for younger CBers. I've denoted those ones with a *. 

6th grade: The Giver by Lois Lowry. I'm sure I read another book— but I can't remember it right now. 

7th grade: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Climbing the Stairs by T.V. Padma, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (please note that there is content in this one that some may find scandalous.) 

8th grade: Lord of the Flies by William Golding*, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley*, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare*

9th grade: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*, Othello by William Shakespeare*

10th grade: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi **, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*, Master Harold. . . and the boys by Athol Fugard **, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid **, The Tempest by William Shakespeare *, A Tempest by Aime Cesaire **

Hmm, I've read The Giver, The Outsiders, this one book I forgot the name of (it was a memoir about a girl escaping from Afghanistan and the title had something to do with the sky), um, The Bronze Bow, The Lightning Thief, Call of the Wild . . . and the Girl who Drank the Moon, which was the only one that I hadn't read before school :p

5th grade-Maniac Magee and Tuck Everlasting 

6th grade-Wonder, Chains, and The Wednesday Wars  

7th grade-The Giver, The Pearl, and The Red Umbrella   

8th grade-To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men. I think we were also going to read Romeo and Juliet, but ended up not because of distance learning.            

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Spear

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Little Britches by Ralph Moody

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

I don't remember much about some of them, but I know all of them were really good! I know the first three are historical fiction, Little Britches is a kind of autobiography, and The Magician's Nephew is the first (chronological) book of the Chronicles of Narnia. 100% recommend all of them!

We read My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry last year and it was really good!