[CASL-L] Help! Suggestions needed on books

[Nancy Carlson]

These are older books, The Disreputable History of Frankie Banks
<https://www.amazon.com/Disreputable-History-Frankie-Landau-Banks/dp/0786838191>
by
E. Lockhart.
Uglies <https://www.amazon.com/Uglies-Scott-Westerfeld/dp/1442419814>by
Westerfield.


Nancy M. Carlson
Farmington High School
Farmington, CT  06032
carlsonn at fpsct.org
FHS Library website www.fpsct.org/fhslibrary
Twitter @FHSbooklovers
Currently reading * Before We Were Yours *by Lisa Wingate
Currently listening to *Little Monsters *by Kara Thomas

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Loretta Sullivan <b59lgian at mpspride.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a request from one of our teachers.  Please see below.  Any
> ideas?  Greatly appreciated...!  Thanks for any and all input.
>
> "I'm co-teaching *Macbeth* in a sophomore honors class this quarter.
> We're mostly reading the play in class, but I'd love to give the students
> something to read at home as well.
>
> Ideally, I'd like five or six books (variety of writers, protagonists,
> etc) that relate in some way to the theme of power/ambition or that in some
> other way have an interesting connection with *Macbeth*.
>
> I've scoured the book room for books that relate that maybe no one teaches
> anymore, but haven't found much. I pulled *A Separate Peace, Athletic
> Shorts, Othello, *and *Hamlet*. Those are all male protagonists, all
> written by white men, etc. *Like Water for Chocolate* crossed my mind
> (war, mysticism), as did *Carter Beats the Devil* (power, the
> supernatural).
> ​"
> ​
> Respectfully,
>
> Loretta Sullivan
> Library Media Specialist
> Manchester High School
>
>
>
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>                                                        - Jorge Luis Borges
>
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