From September 2007 to June 2009, I wrote a bi-weekly column for Ming Pao (a Hong Kong newspaper) introducing high school students to English-language novels and non-fiction books for their School-based Assessment examination (SBA) in English. The challenge here was in finding books that would be interesting to older teens (between 16 and 18), that would be lead to good discussions or presentations in class and that had language that could be handled by second-language learners. Click on the thumbnail to read a short review of the book. To scroll through all the reviews on one long page, you can click on the following link:
longzijun.wordpress.com/category/teaching-learning/books-for-teens/
 50 Artists You Should Know – Thomas Kohn & Lars Roper |
 The Best Christmas Present in the World: Michael Morpugo |
 The Sound of Colors – Jimmy Liao |
 Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn |
 NIght Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko |
 The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick |
 Stardust – Neil Gaiman |
 101 Things You Should Know and Some You Don’t! |
 The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1: The Field Guide |
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-time – Mark Haddon |
 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold |
 Cyrano – Geraldine McCaughrean |
 Boy Meets Girl – Meg Cabot |
 An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore |
 The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman |
 Griffin & Sabine – Nick Bantock |
 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo |
 The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke |
 Uglies – Scott Westerfield |
 Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion – Tiffany Godoy |
 The Cube – Annie Gottlieb & Slobodan D. Pesic |
 Lust Caution – Eileen Chang |
 Ring – Koji Suzuki |
 Kira Kira – Cynthia Kadohata |
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