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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.g Analyze the characteristics of various genres of literature and their purposes.
- Literature: "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
- Literature: "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
- Literature: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" by Lois Duncan
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "So Far From the Bamboo Grove" by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
- Literature: "Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson" by Michelle Y. Green
- Literature: "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraws
- Literature: "The Iceman" by Don Lessem
- Literature: "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
