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Maine A2 Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader's response.
A2.a Describe external and internal conflicts of the characters and their effect on the plot.
- Literature: "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck
- Literature: "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Literature: "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Literature: "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Dear America" Native American Experience Books
- Literature: "Dear America: Christmas After All" by Kathryn Lasky
- Literature: "Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White
- Literature: "Dovey Coe" by Frances O'Roark Dowell
- Literature: "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Hitler's Daughter" by Jackie French
- Literature: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard and Florence Atwater
- Literature: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Scorpions" by Walter Dean Myers
- Literature: "Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board" by Bethany Hamilton
- Literature: "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
- Literature: "The Barcode Tattoo" by Suzanne Weyn
- Literature: "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- Literature: "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraws
- Literature: "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
- Literature: "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Literature: "The Watsons Go to Birmingham --1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Literature: "We Beat the Street" by Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
- Literature: Cinderella Stories
