Top Ten Tuesday: Why Not Teach This in Schools?

Hey Guys! So yes, I decided to try this. It's going to take some easing into but I want to start blogging more often. So here we go! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. 

September 3: Top 10 Contemporary Books That Would Be Great Paired With A Required Reading Book (like Perks of Being A Wallflower with Catcher in the Rye) OR Top Ten Books That You Wish Were Taught In Schools.   

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
• These books are exceptional, but you probably already know that. I took Mythology one year in school, and of course everyone said it was going to be extremely difficult. But I breezed through that subject in flying colours. All because of these books. 
• Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys 
• When you think of WWII, what do you think of? Hitler? Nazis? Jews? Well yeah. That's what we our taught in school. But know one is taught the Stalin side of the War. How Russia took Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. And imprisoned them and sent them to all across Russia and Siberia. That's a lot worse than a labor camp. Join Lina as she fights for her life, her families life, and to tell her father she's okay. This book NEEDS to be taught in schools. 
• The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 
• I read this book when I was really young and it still scares me today. It is porbably my first instance of WWII Jewish labor camps. It talks of a boy who's father is a general for Hitler. They move into a house next to a labor camp and Bruno, the boy, doesn't realise what is happening to the boy just beyond the fence. It would be a great book for fourth, fifth, or sixth graders to read before they went into learning about the cruelities of WWII.  
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• This is the perfec book to give you a whole new look on WWII. An understanding of things that are hard to understand. I definielty think this is a book that needs to be taught in schools, because we don't get expierences like this in a daily life. We don't expierence the poverty and death and injustices. 
• The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins
• I've heard many schools have already started adding this to their curriculum and I think that's exceptional. This is a good book to start kids out on their path to understanding national politics.
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
• This novel is a classic. It shows rebellion and burning. It shows what our world could plunge into and how to save it from that future predicament. This should be taught so that people understand the importance of life and values. 
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett 
• This is a great book to help understand almost every aspect of black prejudice in the 60s. It shines beautifully in the relm of trust, unlikely firendships, and a little bit of pie.
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• This is a very uncommon disscussion, but it is important and should be disscussed. What and Could we as humans recreate life? Should we? I belive Michael Crichton has beautifully captured that in this book. To help understand why it's not okay. Why it shouldn't happen. 
• Once by Morris Gleitzman
• Another great WWII story, told from the point of view of a little boy who takes a long painful journey with many hardships and realizations.
• Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
• I have actually yet to read this one, but John Green suggested it to me and I obliged. I have read the first few pages, and I think this is going to help me better understand North Korea and their going ons right now. It's a long and complicated battle, especially with the President insuring that we should step in on Syria, what are we going to do when WWIII starts? Great Britian is refusing to wage war on Syria. France is on our side. Russia stands neutral. North Korea has nukes. Syria has chemicals. China's in the middle. I think this book will just push me a step further into understanding North Korea. 

See ya'll on Thursday!