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Ask for help > Reading Books for Upper Intermediate/Advanced
Reading Books for Upper Intermediate/Advanced
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colibrita
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Reading Books for Upper Intermediate/Advanced
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Hi Everyone! I was just wondering.....
When your upper intermediate /advanced students ask you to recommend "real" (not graded readers) books for reading at home, who do you say?
I usually suggest books by:
Alexander McCall Smith (the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)
Patricia Cornwell (crime)
Bill Bryson (travel/humour)
Nora Roberts (romance)
Would love to discover more possibilities that this level can cope with.
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29 Sep 2009
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colibrita
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Oh that �s funny! I meant to include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I forgot! Great minds think alike!
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29 Sep 2009
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teacher_julia
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Great Brain books (if you can get your hands on them!) by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sweet Valley series, which is graded!
--Sweet Valley Twins
--Sweet Valley Junior High
--Sweet Valley High
--Sweet Valley University
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29 Sep 2009
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Missgeorgie
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Edgar Allan Poe �s short stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! teens and adults love them!!!! |
29 Sep 2009
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Nuria08
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My students enjoy reading Roald Dahl, he �s got some great short stories!
They also liked Mark Haddon �s "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time".
They also love "The n�1 ladies � detective agency", of course.
Hugs! |
29 Sep 2009
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kmtr
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Jerry Spinelli, Carl Hiaasan, and Mike Lupica.
R.L. Stein has scary stories for various age groups.
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29 Sep 2009
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Carla Horne
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Hi,
Judy Blume (easy), Lois Duncan, Dave Pelzer �s A Child Called It (autobiography about child abuse), Ray Bradbury (science fiction), Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe (very hard vocabulary), Sue Grafton (mysteries), Tony Hillerman (mysteries dealing with Native Americans), Stephen King (horror and language), and Ernest Gaines (play Fences has some language).
Of course, there are more. What genre are you looking for?
Carla |
29 Sep 2009
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colibrita
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Thanks everyone for your ideas!
Carla, any genre will do. The more the merrier!
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30 Sep 2009
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