As with the list featuring characters dealing with sexual assault and violence, it’s hard to celebrate “six sensational” when it comes to being imprisoned, but again, it’s a necessary topic in literature.
It’s Father’s Day here in the United States, so it’s natural to highlight stories featuring dad’s prominently– the good, the bad, and anything in between.
With school coming to a close for us in New York State, I’m dedicating today’s post to six sensational stories that rely on school as a primary backdrop for the story. This doesn’t include the boarding school stories typically providing the vibe for dark academia books which will come in a future post.
Obviously a title like “six sensational” paired with books featuring a sexual assault or sexual abuse is oxymoronic. However, if you’ve been following each post this month, I’m attempting to create mini booklists for topics with the theme of “six sensational”. This topic is one that I knew I wanted to address and here are books that have both been popular with teens for lit circles and individual readers advisory and also have the capacity to show empathy and understanding.
Where there’s a classic story, there’s a retelling of that classic story. Here are a few favorites.
When done well it pulls me in because science fiction isn’t my go-to category to read from. However, these were all fantastic and of course, of course, of course, I have to highlight Saga. If you ever want to talk about Saga with me, I’m always available. I own them all AND I have reread them several times over.
Having recently finished Not Quite a Ghost, I realized there are quite a few fantastic stories that featuring houses- not necessarily always haunted but possibly enchanted, but quite the characters all on their own. A list of six of them here.
Dogs are the best. As mentioned in a previous post about books with animal companions, I promised I’d do a post specifically about dog companions because dogs are the best.
Pictured here is Baxter, our American Great Dane rescue who we’ve had for a little less than a year. Have I said it already? Dogs are the best.
Here are some favorites with dog companions.
For the last few years, our high school library has had the opportunity to partner with a community outreach coordinator for our county who works with victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. During the month of February, we partner during Teen Dating Violence Awareness month and look to read a book with a group of interested students and do activities that discuss the book, general resources, and talk about healthy relationships. It got me thinking about the books we’ve chosen and some of the best books that feature the unhealthy relationships to use as talking points for discussion.
I decided that there are too many books featuring a dog as a companion that that’ll get it’s own post this month, so today’s post features non-dog animal “friends”.
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