SUGGESTED READING FOR ESL STUDENTS
Non-Fiction | Fiction | Selected Internet Resources NON-FICTION (autobiography and other non-fiction works)
- Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- A black poet and actress recalls her childhood and adolescence.
PS 3551 .N464 I4
- Baker, Russell. Growing Up
- A journalist tells of his childhood and growing up in the 1930's.
PS3552 .A4343 Z466 1984
- Didion, Joan. Salvador
- A writer describes a recent visit to war-torn El Salvador.
F1488.3 .D53 1994
- Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank
- A young Dutch Jewish girl tells of being in hiding from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944.
DS135 N6 F733 1989
- Gunther, John.Death Be Not Proud
- A father writes lovingly of his 17-year-old son's long brave struggle with a brain tumor.
CT 275 .G855 G8 1971
- Hakakian, Roya.Journey From the Land of No
- The story of a woman's experience from the 1979 Iranian Revolution to living in the United States.
NEW E184 .I5 H35 2004
- Hellman, Lillian. Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time
- Author and playwright survived a rebellious childhood in the South, anti-Nazi intrigue, Hollywood and the McCarthy era.
PS 3515 .E343 Z4994
- Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small
- A new veterinarian tells of his experience in rural England.
SF 613 .H44 A28 1972
- Hinojosa, Maria. Raising Raul: adventures raising myself and my son
- A biography of a Mexican-America mother in New York.
ReadEnr HQ759 .H667 2000
- Keller, Helen. The Story Of My Life
- The writer overcame blindness and deafness to become an outstanding person.
HV1624 .K4 A15 1954
- Keneally, Thomas. Abraham Lincoln
- A recent biography of one of the most famous U.S. presidents.
E 457.2 .A55
- Kidder, Tracy. Soul Of A New Machine
- A group of engineers work together to build a new computer for a small computer company.
TK 7885.4 K53
- Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother
- A story of brother-sister relationships in Antigua.
PR 9275 .A583 K5639 .1997
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Spent Among Ghosts
- A Chinese-American woman is torn between American life in modern San Francisco and the ancient legends and traditions of her Chinese heritage.
CT 275 .K5764 A33 1976
- Klein, Joe. Woody Guthrie: A Life
- ML429 G95 K6
- MacLaine, Shirley. You Can Get There From Here
- PN 2287 .M18A34 1975
- McCarthy, Mary. Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood
- PS 3525 .A1435 Z55
- Mead, Margaret. Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
- A famous anthropologist tells of her life before World War II.
GN 21 .M36 A32
- Purdy, Anne.Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- A 19-year-old woman finds prejudice, violence and love in an Alaskan gold rush town in 1927.
LA 2317 .H59 P87 1982
- Rather, Dan and Mickey Herskowitz. The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist
- A controversial autobiography by one of TV's best known newscasters.
PN 4874 .R28A33
- Simon, Kate.Bronx Primitive: Portraits in A Childhood
- Simon tells of growing up in an immigrant neighborhood after World War I.
F128.9 J5 S57
- Steinbeck, John. Travels With Charley
- A famous writer drives across the U.S. with his dog, Charley.
E 169 .S82
- Theroux, Paul. The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
- A writer tells of a recent train trip through Asia.
DS10 T43
- Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets
- Biography of a young dark-skinned Puerto Rican growing up in New York City.
F128.9.P8 T5
- Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings
- A well-known writer recalls her childhood and what influenced her writing.
PS 3545 E6 Z475 1984
- Wright, Richard. Black Boy
PS 3545 .R815 1991
FICTION
- Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
- A West African country deals with independence and its effects on people's traditions.
PR 9387.9.A3 T52398 2000
- Adams, Richard. Watership Down
- A community of rabbits cope with life, enemies included.
PR6051 .D345 W319 c.1
- Ahmed, Leila. Border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
- ReadEnr HQ1793. Z75 A55 2000
- Borland, Hal. When the Legends Die
- An American Indian pushes his rodeo horses until an accident sends him back to the mountains of his boyhood.
PS3053 O563 W54 1989
- Bradbury, Ray.The Martian Chronicles
- Short tales about Earthlings and Mars!
PS3503 .R167 M37 1979
- Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None
- One of the many murder mysteries by this classic mystery writer.
PR 6005 .H66 A84 1991
- Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage
- A young man tells of his Civil War experiences.
PS1449 .C85 R4 1957
- Cuellar, José Tomás de . The magic lantern : a novel and novella
- PQ7297 .C77 A23 2000
- Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa
- A young Danish woman runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, East Africa.
DT433.54 .D56 1992
- Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
- A black man searches for a visible identity.
PS3555 .L625 I5 1989 c.3
- Finney, Jack.Time and Again
- The hero travels back in time to New York City in the 1880's.
PS3556 I52 T65 1995
- Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Historical fiction about African-American women in Louisiana.
PS3557 .A355 A85 1996
- Golding, William. Lord of the Flies
- Innocence ends and savagery begins when English schoolboys are marooned on an island and try to set up their own society.
PR6013 .O35 .L6 1954b
- Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
- This love story takes place during the Italian campaign in World War I.
PS3515 .E37 F3 1995b
- Hemingway, Ernest. The old man and the sea
PL2687 .L8 A28
- Herbert, Frank. Dune
- In this space fantasy, the freemen of Dune battle the Emperor of the known universe.
Ps3558 .E63 D8 1984
- Jen, Gish. Typical American
- PS3560 .E474 T9 1991
- Jin, Ha. In the pond : a novel
- ReadEnr PS3560 .I6 I6 2000
- Kenney, Susan. In Another Country
- A woman copes with the early death of her father and the serious illness of her mother and husband.
PS3561 .E445 I5 1984
- Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- A rebel leads other inmates of a mental hospital in a struggle with a nurse.
PS3561 .E667 O6 1962
- Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness
- In this fantasy, Al is the first envoy to a technologically primitive world.
PS3562 E42 L33 1969
- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle In Time
- PS3523 .E55 W74 1990
- Marshall, James Vance. Walkabout
- ReadEnr PR6066 .A9 W355 1995
- Menéndez, Ana. Loving Che
- New PS3563 .E514 L68 2003
- Morrison, Toni. Sula
- PS3563 .O8749 S58 1991
- Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye
- PS 3563 O8749 B55 1994
- Naipaul, V. S. A House for Mr. Biswas
- PR9272 .9. N32 H6 1992
- Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me A Riddle
- Four stories told with great emotional intensity.
PS3565 L82
- Orwell, George. Animal Farm
- After capturing Manor Farm, rebellious animals attempt to create a society based on equality (political satire).
PR6029 .R8 A5 1982
- Poe, Edgar Allen. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
- Desolation impending doom, physical horror and psychological terror pervade these short tales.
PS2612 .A3 1998
- Salinger, J. D. The Catcher In The Rye
- A 16-year-old boy leaves his prep school and tries to sort out his life for three days in New York City.
PS3537 .A426 C3 1991
- Singer, Isaac B.A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
- Winner of the National Book Award, an English translation of a collection of short stories, originally written in Yiddish, on Jewish life and customs.
PJ5129 .S515 1973
- Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
- PS3537 .M2895 T7 1968
- Steinbeck, John. The Pearl
- A family comes to ruin because of desire for a pearl - an old Mexican folk tale.
PS3537 .T3234 P4 1947
- Steinbeck, John. Of mice and men
ReadEnr PS 3537 .T3234 O2 1993
- Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit
- The Hobbit and his dwarf companions seek treasure from the dragon.
PR6039 .O2 H63 1988
- Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- PS3570.Y45 D5 1996
- Walker, Alice.The Color Purple
- PS3573 A425 C6 1982
- White, E. B.Charlotte's Web
- Clever Charlotte, a spider, figures out a way to save the life of her friend Wilbur, a pig.
PS3545 .H5187 C37 1980
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
- Boston ESL
- Boston ESL is a source of ESL information for students and teachers of ESL in the Greater Boston area. For ESL students, this site provides information on a number of community and academic ESL programs. It also contains many links to community information about Greater Boston, including sites for museums, entertainment, sports events, and public transportation.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4148/- Dave's ESL Cafe
- This site was created by Dave Sperling, an ESL instructor at California State University, Northridge. It is an interactive "community" for ESL students, containing a chat room, interactive quizzes, guides to slang and idioms, and much more. It also contains a comprehensive Web Guide to many other ESL sites on the web.
http://www.eslcafe.com/- English as a Second Language Home Page
- Supported by the Language Learning Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, this site is a good starting point for locating ESL learning resources on the web. It provides links to interactive listening and speaking sites, as well as sources for grammar and reading comprehension. The site also has an "ESL Teachers' Corner" with sites of interest to ESL instructors.
http://www.lang.uiuc.edu/r-li5/esl/- The Human-Languages Page
- The Human-Languages Page is a massive index of dictionaries, language tutorials, sound files, and other information resources on world languages. The index itself is available in over thirty different languages. The Human-Languages Page is maintained by Tyler Williams, a Mac/PC Support Specialist at Harvard Translations.
http://www.june29.com/HLP/- The LinguaCenter Grammar Safari
- This site is designed for bold students of English who would like to broaden their horizons by leaving the safe confines of the grammar book and venturing out into the "jungle" of real-world English usage. This site contains a series of activities that involve hunting down grammatical structures on the World Wide Web. It also includes a list of suggested sites (newspapers, magazines and books online) at which to begin your search. This site was created by staff at the Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html- Newspapers on the Web
- Newspapers on the Web is an enormous index, providing links to over 3200 newspapers from the United States and all around the world. Read today's news from virtually any country, in English and/or in a country's native language.
http://www.gt.kth.se/publishing/news.html- TOEFL Online
- Official web site of the "Test of English As A Foreign Language (TOEFL) program. Included are links to practice questions and tutorials, as well as information about testing center locations, schedules and fees.
http://www.toefl.org/- The CSDL Connection
- This is an informal collection of World Wide Web sites used most often by the ESL students at Bunker Hill Community College. These students frequently find themselves spending a good deal of time in the Center for Self-Directed Learning working with CSDL staff and resources to supplement what they are doing in class. http://www.noblenet.org/bhcc/sarah2.htm/
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