Have you ever had to read a book for school that was actually good, and didn't have to do with some sort of raisism. Some books I've read for school are Diary of Ann Frank, How to kill a mockingbird, and a few others. Mockingbird was pretty good, but it had raisism. If you can name one a school has made you read that doesn't have raisism and is good,(can't be a short story, just novels) plz reply.

Animal Farm was a good one. As well all works of the swedish authors Jan Gulliou and August Strindberg.

Read "the Hobbit" (3rd or 4th time thru) in 9th grade English, no racism there

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oops, forgot "A Christmas Carol" if you can overlook the fact that many people think Ebeneezer Scrooge is a Jew

"Catcher in the Rye"...J.D. Salinger
"The Grapes of Wrath"...John Steinbeck
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"...Anita Loos
"Lord of the Flies"...William Golding
"Atlas Shrugged"...Ayn Rand
"We Have Always Lived In The Castle"...Shirley Jackson
"Cheaper by the Dozen"...Frank and Lilian Gilbreth
"Roots"...Alex Haley (some racism, but a fantastic story of reuniting with one's past)
"Watership Down"...Richard Adams (not necessarily a "kid's book"...some important social and political themes detailed)
"Life With Father"...Clarence Day
"Sense and Sensibility"...Jane Austen
"Howard's End"...E.M. Forster
"Mama's Bank Account"...Kathryn Forbes
"Wuthering Heights"...Emily Bronte
"Jane Eyre"...Charlotte Bronte


These are just a few I can think of off the top of my head right now.

Cheers,

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Call of the Wild
White Fang
Siddhartha

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"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"...Anita Loos
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He he...just reminds me of the movie you're supposed to do in "Discworld 2", "trolls prefer blondes", and Rincewind (your character) says, "Why, they go better with broccoli?"

:D

That was just a poster outside the Odium (IIRC, that is [img]smile.gif[/img] ) not the movie itself ;)

I read the Lord of the Rings for my english literature (thrid time, the reading of it was no punishment :D :D )

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