The single most important book in my high school that was always raved about was Orsan Scott Card's "Ender's Game", and "Ender's Shadow."
The series has won so many awards, and its also being made into a movie in 2008. This would be the perfect opportunity to turn them into avid readers. I attended a magnet school which catered to science & math. We typically read science fiction by Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury. I never was much of a reader until the Ender's Game series. It deals with some political ideas, satire, irony, and psychological aspects as well as delivering an incredible story line of child geniuses and a Battle School.
Many argue that Harry Potter was a parallel to Orsan Scott Card's Ender's Game series. This book is also in the top three best science fiction novels of all time. You can't possibly go wrong with it.
p.s - Heinlein, Bradbury, and Card are very controversial with some of their satire. Conservative parents often try to ban it. At the Science Academy ( rated 3rd best high school in the US four times ) many of the books were challenged frequently. Be sure to preemptively give them handouts from www.abffe.com - fREADom to read. Those board meetings arguments presented by somewhere near eighty students were the fondest memories I have in my education.
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The single most important book in my high school that was always raved about was Orsan Scott Card's "Ender's Game", and "Ender's Shadow." The series has won so many awards, and its also being made into a movie in 2008. This would be the perfect opportunity to turn them into avid readers. I attended a magnet school which catered to science & math. We typically read science fiction by Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury. I never was much of a reader until the Ender's Game series. It deals with some political ideas, satire, irony, and psychological aspects as well as delivering an incredible story line of child geniuses and a Battle School. Many argue that Harry Potter was a parallel to Orsan Scott Card's Ender's Game series. This book is also in the top three best science fiction novels of all time. You can't possibly go wrong with it. p.s - Heinlein, Bradbury, and Card are very controversial with some of their satire. Conservative parents often try to ban it. At the Science Academy ( rated 3rd best high school in the US four times ) many of the books were challenged frequently. Be sure to preemptively give them handouts from www.abffe.com - fREADom to read. Those board meetings arguments presented by somewhere near eighty students were the fondest memories I have in my education.