The Teacher Excellence Center asked its winners to recommend to every student two books to read and two films to view.
The result is a wide-ranging list:
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| "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
"The BFG" by Roald Dahl "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault "Christy" by Catherine Marshall "Dear Children of the Earth" by Schim Schimmel "Dinosaurs Before Dark" by Mary Pope Osborne "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" by Dr. Seuss "Ian's Walk: A Story about Autism" by Laurie Lears "The Indian in the Cupboard" by Lynne Reid Banks "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl "Leo the Late Bloomer" by Robert Klaus "Let's Read About..." series by Courtney Baker "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper |
. | "Little House on the Prairie" by Lara Ingalls Wilder
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Magic School Bus" books by Joanna Cole "Narnia Chronicles: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss "A Picture Book of Helen Keller" by David A. Adler Ramona books by Beverly Cleary "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr "Stone Fox" by Lynne Reid Banks "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum "The World According to Mr. Rogers" by Fred Rogers "Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" by Charles Schultz
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"Because of Winn-Dixie" "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Disney Classics such as "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" "Dumbo" "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" "The Paper Brigade" "The Indian in the Cupboard" "It's a Wonderful Life" Leapfrog's "Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory" "Little House on the Prairie" "March of the Penguins" "Matilda" "The Narnia Chronicles" |
"Tales from the Neverending Story" "The Pebble and the Penguin" "Pinocchio" "Polar Express" "The Red Ballon" "The Sandlot" "The Secret Garden" "Shrek" "The Sound of Music" "Stone Fox" "Where the Red Fern Grows" "The Wizard of Oz" "The Yearling" |
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INTERMEDIATE / MIDDLE |
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"Canyons" by Gary Paulson "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank "The Giver" by Lois Lowry "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens "Holes" by Louis Sachar "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott |
"Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James and Chris Collier "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton "Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "Why Is Everybody Picking on Us: Understanding the Roots of Prejudice" by Terrence Webster-Doyle. |
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Films |
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"Apollo 13" "Dances with Wolves" "Gone with the Wind" "Holes" "Hotel Rwanda" "It's a Wonderful Life" "Little Women" |
"October Sky" "The Outsiders" "Pay It Forward" "Sound of Music" "Stand and Deliver" "The Wizard of Oz" |
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HIGH SCHOOL |
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"1984" by George Orwell "The American Pageant: A History of the Republic" by David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen and Thomas A. Bailey. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell "Anthem" by Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand "Black Boy" by Richard Wright "How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking" by Dale Carnegie "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond |
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte "Holes" by Louis Sachar "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien "Narnia Chronicles: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Night" by Elie Wiesel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck "A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present" by Howard Zinn "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain "The Ugly American" by William Lederer |
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"Band of Brothers" "Chariots of Fire" "Citizen Kane" "Coach Carter" "Cry, the Beloved Country" "Dominick and Eugene" "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" "The Fog of War" "Forrest Gump" "Gone With the Wind" "Hamlet" "Hoosiers" |
"It's a Wonderful Life" "Mr. Holland's Opus" "October Sky" "Outbreak" "Rudy" "The Sound of Music" "Rashomon" "Schindler's List" "Stand and Deliver" "The Thin Blue Line" "To Kill a Mockingbird" "The Wizard of Oz" |
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(More general book suggestions: plays by Shakespeare, anything by Charles Dickens, a religious book.)