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Hey /lit/. I'm a junior high English teacher, and I was wondering if you lot could recommend some deep or philosophical books about whose main character is a child or early teen. Coming-of-age stories are especially great.

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>> No.1368545

Demian

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>The Giver
>deep or philosophical
>mfw

>> No.1368553

Twilight, yo.

>> No.1368557

Catcher in the Rye, if your school's not a cunt about it.

>> No.1368562

if you open the book and see
>greentext
then you knowl it will be deep and philosophical

>> No.1368566

>>1368545
this is near the top of my to-read is this the thing where's there's a film of it & the guys mom commits suicide by fall in front of him?

>> No.1368568

>>1368562
Yeah, yeah. I use those words, but from the perspective of a seventh or eight grader.

>> No.1368571

To Kill a Mockingbird.

>> No.1368573

Is A Wrinkle in Time a bildungsroman? I think so.

>> No.1368581

>>1368566
I don't think so. You should give steppenwolf a try.

>> No.1368580

Looking for Alaska by John Green seems to be getting around high schools nowadays... don't know what to say about Junior High.

The only thing I remember reading is Animal Farm.

>> No.1368588

Check out the author Margaret Peterson Haddix if you don't already know her. The books are written for the age group 9-14 and the main characters are usually about 12 or so. They're pretty depressing though. Two of my favorites:

>Running Out of Time
A girl thinks it's the year (IDK, 1900) but after a bunch of kids start getting sick, her mother sends her out of the village and she finds out it's really 1990 and her village is a tourist spot but the company refuses to give the children modern medicine. At the end of the book she finds out she was too late to save all of the kids and she blames herself.

>The Shadow Children series
Every family is allowed two children. If a third child is found, they're killed. The penalty for harboring a third child is five million dollars or death. The main character is a 3rd and in the first book, he finds out that there are more like him. They all organize a protest in the city but at the last minute he chickens out. All the kids are gunned down. I haven't read the other books in the series though.

>> No.1368591

120 Days of Sodom has children in it. Try that.

>> No.1368598

my friends call me the Giver because I browse 4chan and filter all the shit to show them the diamonds

today I saw the mucus progression of a vagina through the month

being the Giver is hard

>> No.1368600

surely not philosophical but I found City of Thieves by Benioff a very entertaining read, like a good movie it contains moments to laugh, to cry and to shiver

>> No.1368601

demian by hesse

sanshiro by soseki

eh. my two personal fave coming of age novels. the first two to come to mind anyways...

>>1368545
ha. d&e is fucking cool. the last paragraph in demian is killer isn't it?

>> No.1368606

>>1368601
It's been ages since I read it. I recall both Demian and Steppenwolf as having oh shit trippin balls endings. Always books I've wanted to do close readings of.

>> No.1368613

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

>> No.1368618

>>1368606
yeah i haven't read either in several years. i read demian three times throughout my college years. (only graduated a few years ago)

have you seen the steppenwolf movie with max von sydow? its pretty damn odd. worth checking out if you haven't seen it before.

>> No.1368619

Ender's Game
Chronicles of Narnia
Lord of the Flies
Boku no Pico

>> No.1368624

Books about coming of age, eh? hmm...
-Candide
-Amerika (by Kafka)
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This list should suffice for a year in 7th grade

>> No.1368626

>>1368619
120 Days of Sodom > Boku no Pico.

Also, at least 120 Days is a book.

>> No.1368628

>>1368626
> implying boku isn't Japanse for book

>> No.1368635

>>1368628
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boku_no_pico

umad?

>> No.1368636

>>1368635
I'm sure your administrators would love you if you let your kids watch/read this.

>> No.1368638

>>1368628
Boku no is something like our I think.

>> No.1368642

>>1368636
A friend of mine tried to make me watch it.


Do not want.

>> No.1368641
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>Nicknamed "Mokkun" by Pico, he's a young man who sexualizes Pico. Tamotsu is a white collar worker and regular of BeBe.[2] He seduces Pico mistaking him for a young girl, but continues the relationship after realizing Pico's true gender. He later buys Pico a girl's outfit, complete with collar and panties, which he persuades Pico to wear despite his initial protests. He views Pico solely as a sexual object, though later shows true concern for Pico after he disappears. Although he eventually reconciles his relationship with Pico, he is absent in the second and third OVA. In his relationship with Pico, he is the seme.

>> No.1368654

>>1368641
Wat. So it's sorta like Lolita. With boys and sexual confusion. And dress-up kinks. And no literary value.

What was I talking about, again?

>> No.1368663

How about "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Johnathan Safran Foer. It's about a boy who's father died in 9/11 and its pretty deep and coming of age in my opinion.

>> No.1368665

>>1368568
Yeah, using 13 year old terms will help them learn English.

"By deep and philosophical I mean it makes your thinking bulb above ur head go on"

>> No.1368695

>>1368600
this is a good choice depending on how much sexuality the junior high english department allows.


It's kind of a funny story is a good coming of age story for kids. Most preteens really like this book.

>> No.1369531

A Clockwork Orange

>> No.1369553

Call of the wild by Jack London

>> No.1369556

Cement Garden..deliciously perverse

>> No.1369867

I really liked "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly, and it is definately a coming of age novel; there are some scary concepts, some violent death, and some psychopaths. It is a little long, 335 pages, but it is a compelling story.

Thriller writer Connolly (Every Dead Thing) turns from criminal fears to primal fears in this enchanting novel about a 12-year-old English boy, David, who is thrust into a realm where eternal stories and fairy tales assume an often gruesome reality. Books are the magic that speak to David, whose mother has died at the start of WWII after a long debilitating illness. His father remarries, and soon his stepmother is pregnant with yet another interloper who will threaten David's place in his father's life. When a portal to another world opens in time-honored fashion, David enters a land of beasts and monsters where he must undertake a quest if he is to earn his way back out. Connolly echoes many great fairy tales and legends (Little Red Riding Hood, Roland, Hansel and Gretel), but cleverly twists them to his own purposes. Despite horrific elements, this tale is never truly frightening, but is consistently entertaining as David learns lessons of bravery, loyalty and honor that all of us should learn.