My YA lit class starts this week, so I thought I’d share the course reading list here:

Week 1: Seraphina (Hartman)

Week 2: Ella Enchanted (Levine) and Howl’s Moving Castle (Jones)

Week 3: … and now Miguel (Krumgold) and I, Juan de Pareja (Trevino)

Week 4: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Lockhart) and The Year of Secret Assignments (Moriarty)

Week 5: Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell) and Hatchet (Paulson)

Week 6: Deadline (Crutcher) and Walk Two Moons (Creech)

Week 7: Quaking (Erskine) and Story of a Girl (Zarr)

Week 8: The Slave Dancer (Fox) and Chains (Anderson)

Week 9: The Last Ram (Linstrom) and Russian Snows (Armstrong)

Week 10: Maniac Magee (Spinelli), Stargirl (Spinelli) and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (Crutcher)

Week 11: The Graveyard Book (Gaiman) and Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt)

Week 12: A Long Way from Chicago (Peck) and Dead End in Norvelt (Gantos)

Week 13: When You Reach Me (Stead) and How I Live Now (Rosoff)

Week 14: 2/personal choice

Yes, that’s 28 books. We’ll also be blogging about these books until mid-May at Readers Are Leaders 2014, so come see what we’re doing.