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In some books the delightful (or evil!) characters drive the story, but in others the setting has just as much impact. Would Edgar Allan Poe have the same effect if the stories were set in, say, the Australian Outback? Would Hobbits be believable anywhere but Middle Earth? Of course not.
Paying attention to the effect of the setting develops critical thinking skills. Here are some books with settings that make a difference:
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever 1793
- Elisa Carbone, Blood on the River: Jamestown, 1607
- Sook Nyul Choi, Year of Impossible Good-byes
- Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963
- Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House
- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
- Kahled Hosseini, Kite Runner
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
- Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
- Faith Ringgold, Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
- Pam Muņoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
- Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
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This page updated November 13, 2009.