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what's your favorite book you've been assigned to read?
mine's The Outsiders

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Either The Outsiders  or To Kill A Mockingbird.
Night by Elie Wiesel and Catcher in the Rye

loser, in grade four

 

it ws funny

 

it was good

 

and my class was posssibly the slowest reading group in the world

My school district is composed of slackers, for lack of a better word, so we never get assigned the task of reading independently at home; all reading is done in class. This is why I hate when books are assigned. It took my 7th grade class over 3 months to read Lord of the Flies. Do you know how short that book is? Three months. So, I have never really had any good experiences with assigned books and my school district doesn't assign them very much anyway....but, to answer you question, my favorite assigned book would have to be The Outsiders. :)
1984 was fantastic, and I am also a great fan of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. That was fantastic.
I liked Lord of the Flies the first time I read it, but I hate it so much now after re-reading it so many times in class D;
I never enjoyed reading an assigned book in my life, It seems wrong to mandate art. I know why they do it but it still seems wrong.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Being from Alabama made it even more special.
Unlike the vast majority (maybe all), of my classmates, I really enjoyed most of the books I read in school. A few I read before the class did, so I'm not sure those count. Those would be The Outsiders and The Giver, both read in middle school.
Besides those, I would probably say Catcher. It's hard to pick the ones that have stuck with me the most. 
Outsiders (Johnny NOOOO!), Catcher and Giver are my tops. Sula by Toni Morrison follows, I think. 
The Great Gatsby and A Brave New World

Even though I really sis not like my English teacher for Brit Lit last year, she made me read some amazing books. I would say that my favorite was A Tale of Two Cities. I also enjoyed Brave New World, but it wasn't my favorite.

And the only thing I can even call litertature that we read in grammar school was To Kill A Mockingbird which was pretty epic.

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden.

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