Transition from YAL to The Classics

1. Transition from YAL to The Classics Renee Rogers

2. WHY YAL IS IMPORTANT • Young adult literature can be the foundation of a lifetime reader. Reading certain titles of YAL can lead to the reading and enjoyment of The Classics. • There are books that lift their characters from the classics, and then set them in modern day. Stories like those can pique any YAL reader’s interest to read the original. • A few examples are: • Prom & Prejudice v. Pride and Prejudice • Wuthering High v. Wuthering Heights • The Scarlet Letterman v. The Scarlet Letter

3. Revolution By Jennifer Donnelly A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

4. A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens Revolution By Jennifer Donnelly • Time Travel • Modern Day • Romance/ Love Affairs • French Revolution • Death • More political • The language/ speaking style tends to be archaic After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

5. The Host By Stephenie Meyer The War Of The Worlds By H.G. Wells

6. The War Of The Worlds By H.G. Wells The Host By Stephenie Meyer • Active love and romance • Focuses on inner struggle of being controlled. • Passive love & romance • Has a more philosophical outlook on where Earth and mankind are headed. • Aliens • Survival • Love • Controlling government Beginning with a series of strange flashes in the distant night sky, the Martian attack initially causes little concern on Earth. Then the destruction erupts -ten massive aliens roam England and destroy with heat rays everything in their path. Very soon humankind finds itself on the brink of extinction. Questions of mortality, man’s place in nature, and the evil lurking in the technological future are raised - questions that remain urgently relevant in the twenty-first century. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.

7. When will this cruel war be over? By Barry Denenberg Gone with the Wind By Margaret Mitchell Honorary Mention: A Light in the Dark, which is another Dear America book during the Civil War

8. When will this cruel war be over? By Barry Denenberg Gone with the Wind By Margaret Mitchell • Journal format • Meant for late grade school, early middle school • 12-year-old’s perspective on the war. • Traditional novel format • More adult themes of love, adultery, marriage. • Perspective of a rich 16-year-old. • American Civil War • Trials of losing family • Strong female characters • South sympathizers A Confederate girl records the hardships of Southern life as the Civil War rages at her doorstep and tears her family and her country apart. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's epic love story is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and its people forever changed. At the heart of all this chaos is the story of beautiful, ruthless Scarlett 'O' Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.