[CASL-L] Help! Suggestions needed on books

[Williams, Linda]

The two below are recommended here<http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EJ/1015-may2012/EJ1015Shelves.pdf>.
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter by Lisa Klein
Publisher’s Annotation: The daughter Macbeth might have had, if Shakespeare had thought to create her…
Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her mother of her father, the powerful Macbeth. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she's been raised by three strange sisters. It's only when the ambitious Macbeth seeks out the sisters to foretell his fate that Albia's life becomes tangled with the man who leaves nothing but bloodshed in his wake. She even falls in love with Fleance, Macbeth's rival for the throne. Yet when Albia learns that she has the second sight, she must decide whether to ignore the terrible future she foresees—or to change it. Will she be able to save the man she loves from her murderous father? And can she forgive her parents their wrongs, or must she destroy them to save Scotland from tyranny?
In her highly anticipated follow-up to Ophelia, Lisa Klein delivers a powerful reimagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring a young woman so seamlessly drawn it seems impossible she was not part of the Bard's original play.
Enter Three Witches by Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher’s Annotation: Lady Mary is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth whose life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king -- and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, Mary has lost both her father and future. Now she's trapped in a castle with a power-hungry couple who will do anything to get what they want -- and are willing to crush anyone in their way. Including Mary. As the murderous events of Shakespeare's play unfold around her, Mary must struggle to survive -- and do what she can to prevent more deaths. But can a lone girl save lives when a legion of Scottish lords cannot?

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia (was recommended as a match here<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/zola-books-/8-modern-ya-novels-to-pai_b_5452763.html>)
Publisher’s Annotation: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Two of the above plus Exposure and As I Descended are recommended here<http://www.epicreads.com/blog/an-epic-chart-of-162-young-adult-retellings/>.
Exposure by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes
Publisher Annotation: Double, double, toil, and trouble! The quest for high-school royalty can turn deadly when teen ambition outstrips reason. Skye Kingston is a shy shutterbug who prefers observing life from behind her camera lens. She doesn't know she's stunning, and comes off the sidelines only when she's forced to by the terrifying events of one treacherous school year in Alaska. A boy named Duncan is dead, and his death may or may not be an accident. Skye's three new best friends are eerily able to foretell the future, and cheerleader Beth might be more than a social climber--she quite probably is a sociopath. Then there's Skye's growing attraction to the school hottie, Craig, The Boy Who Would Be Prom King. But their time is crossed by fate. There's already been one death, and who can say if it's only the first? As Skye falls for Craig, she also slowly realizes that he is caught in the crosshairs of a deadly plot. Can she save Craig and herself from a murderous fate? Exposure is not only a modern take on the classic Macbeth, it's proof that nothing has changed since Shakespeare riffed on the subject nearly half a millennium ago: the quest for power can lead to bloodstained hands.
"Exposure is an intelligent, poignant, and riveting mashup of Shakespearean tragedy and high-school politics, which, as it turns out, have a lot in common." ~Daria Snadowsky, author of Anatomy of a Boyfriend and Anatomy of a Single Girl.
AND
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Publisher Annotation: Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn’t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything—absolutely anything—to unseat Delilah for the scholarship. After all, it would lock in Maria’s attendance at Stanford—and assure her and Lily four more years in a shared dorm room.
Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. But when feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to blur the distinction between what’s real and what’s imagined, the girls must attempt to put a stop to the chilling series of events they’ve accidentally set in motion.

A bunch of books are mentioned in this Chicago Tribune article<http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-young-adult-roundup-books-0922-20160910-story.html> called “California noir, spin on Macbeth in the latest young adult fiction.”

Linda

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From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Rocca, Jennifer
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 9:09 AM
To: Loretta Sullivan
Cc: CASL_L
Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Help! Suggestions needed on books

I am addressing this exact same concern right now! Same play, same theme, same problem.

The teacher I'm working with is looking for shorter articles to take home. A few we started with:


·         The Real Connection Between Ambition and Mental Health<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/money-power-mental-health_n_6297946.html>

·         How Successful People Handle Stress<https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2015/05/26/how-successful-people-turn-stress-and-anxiety-into-top-performance/#539c3d303867>

·         How Power Corrupts Leaders<https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/200908/how-power-corrupts-leaders>


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Loretta Sullivan <b59lgian at mpspride.org<mailto: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).
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Respectfully,

Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Manchester High School

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