Looking for Help: Sports Books Made Into Movies

Unless you want a seventh grader reading fuck and n*****r, I would look for a different book.




For non-sports...

Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Sawyer
A Wrinkle in Time
Holes

 

The Natural seems like a great pick because it shows the added characters and the changing plot/endings.

 

Wait, you warn about seventh-graders reading profanity/racial slurs and then you suggest ... Of Mice and Men? And To Kill a Mockingbird? Two of the most challenged books of the last half-century.

Please, tell me you're kidding. :

Love those books, but please tell me you were being ironical or something.

 

Totally different tone in the books.

I don't remember reading multiple f-bombs in Mockingbird.

I just reread Mockingbird this summer, and there is no way it's language and tone is as strong as Lights.

 

My comment about books like Friday Night Lights had to do with the difficulty and length of the book for a 7th grader
That's more of a concern than "fuck" and the "n" word, in my opinion

 

Oh, I think Friday Night Lights should be required reading for all high school athletes, it's just a little much for a pre-teen.

 

I agree that the tone (and message) is different. There's a reason those books are taught in schools, and FNL isn't.

But your reasoning is a little suspect. If you're going to cite language/profanity as a reason seventh-graders shouldn't read FNL ... ain't no way you can then throw out two of the most challenged books of the 20th century as alternatives.

 

I think it depends on the kid --which was my original point. If you have a 12 year old who devours books, FNL shouldn't be a problem in terms of length, content, tone or language.

 

solid.

 

Almost every cartoon and sitcom is based in Lenny and George, and the kid could argue that Harper Lee never wrote Mockingbird.

Both choices are win/win.

You know Buck, on Monday I am going to walk into a couple of schools and see if they have Mockingbird and M&M on their shelves.

You have started to make me think.

 

Semi-tough... that should be good for a seventh grader to explain.

 

was deliverance a book or just a movie?