[CASL-L] Help! Suggestions needed on books

[Janice Pellegrino]

One of our teachers asked for high-interest YA titles regarding three
themes in Macbeth:

How are a person's choices shaped by nature and nuture?
How are we held accountable for the decisions we make?
How does literature connect to the reader, to other texts, or to society?

Here's what I put together as a starting point for his class:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjIwLVkuks2Hff5HDQhq9WvI0PLl2BaYZFyrK69kbtc/edit?usp=sharing

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Nancy Carlson <carlsonn at fpsct.org> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
>>                                                        - Jorge Luis Borges
>>
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