Hunter, Latoya. “The Diary of Latoya Hunter—My First Year in Junior High.” New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.
Written by a thirteen-year-old girl, the book chronicles the life of a girl going to school in one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods.
Ibsen, Henrik. tr. by James McFarlane, “An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm.” Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1988.
“An Enemy of the People” is the drama of Dr. Stockman who finds microbes in a town’s therapeutic baths.
Meyers, W. “Scorpions,” New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
This is a book about teenage life in Harlem. It is the story of one boy, his friends and family the pressures of a gang.
Sophocles. tr. by Elizabeth Wyckoff. “Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
This is Sophocles’ play of the young woman who defies the law forbidding the burial of her brother and must pay with her life.
