Theme+-+Innocence


 * Innocence **

*Theme: childhood innocence especially from their point of view or a child narrative. *

//48 Shades of brown // by Nick Earls //The book thief // / Markus Zusak //Boy in Striped Pyjamas // by John Boyne //City of bones // (the Mortal Instruments series – City of ashes, City of glass) / Cassandra Clare //Came back to show you I can fly // by Robin Klein – an older teenager involved in drugs, told from innocent younger child’s perspective, who does not read the signs. //Coming back // / David Hill //Crash, the story of Poddy //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> / William Taylor //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Diego's Run //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Deborah Ellis //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Genesis //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Bernard Beckett //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Historian //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Elizabeth Kostova //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">How I live now //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> / Meg Rossoff <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">//In the country of salvation// by Noel Virtue (NZ) //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">To kill a mockingbird //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Harper Lee //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The kite runner //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> / Khaled Hosseini //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Lake House //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by James Patterson & the Maximum Ride Series by him as well. All the genetically engineered kids within the story certainly loose their innocence and grow up very fast. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Messenger //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Markus Zusak //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Mister Pip //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> / Lloyd Jones //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Nathan's Run //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by John Gilstrap //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Never Let Me Go //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Kazuo Ishiguro would also do well: it’s ‘about’ genetic engineering and such, but the gradual loss of childhood innocence is a major theme. A brilliant book. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Once //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Morris Gleitzman //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Orchard street //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> / Maurice Gee //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Pretties //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Scott Westerfield //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Q and A //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Vikas Swarup //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Railway Children //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by E. Nesbit <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">//Rain// by Kirsty Gunn //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Road of Bones //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Anne Fine. It’s a relatively quick read all about a boy growing up in a country that is not identified as the Soviet <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Union, but bears a great deal of similarity to it. The first section deals with his increasing awareness of repression, and the middle <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">section his survival in a gulag, forced to realise that there is no such thing as a pure motive in those conditions. Chilling. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">//Rocking horse road// by Carl Nixon (NZ) //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Secret Garden //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Frances Hodgson Burnett <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">//The sound of butterflies// by Rachel King //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Then //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Morris Gleitzman //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Turn of the Screw //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Henry James //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Twilight //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> (the series – New moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn) / Stephenie Meyer //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Uglies //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> (the series - Pretties, Specials, Extras) / Scott Westerfeld //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Waves //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Sharon Dogar <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">//Whalerider// by Iti Ihimaera (NZ) //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Young Have Secrets //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by James Courage