Books Level 2
Procedures
- Action Engaging/Thrilling plot, suspense, possibly open endings.
- Chronology The action's chronology may be structured in a non-linear way, time shifts and shifts of perspective are clearly marked.
- Storyline(s) Several storylines clearly interconnected.
- Perspective Different perspectives that are clearly marked.
- Meaning Several layers of meaning, simple, non-ambiguous ideas (the reader tends to read only the first layer of the meaning).
Style
- Vocabulary Simple and familiar. Current, contemporary, mainly everyday language.
- Sentence construction Simple and clear.
- Stylistic Vivid and evocative language, more subtle humour and irony. Basic figures of speech.
Characters
- Character Characters are well-developed, with predictable developments, belong-ing to either familiar experiences or to fantastic worlds.
- Number Few characters. Bigger numbers can be coped with as long as a few main figures offer an orientation for the reader.
- Relations Explicit, non-ambiguous, clearly marked.
Book list Level 2
Author | Title | Year | Book Scan | Translations |
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Keller, Gottfried | A Village Romeo and Juliet | 1856 | Translations | |
Sadoveanu, Mihail | The Land beyond the Fog | 1926 | Translations | |
Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Hobbit | 1937 | ||
Tudoran, Radu | Sail Away! | 1954 | Translations | |
Voiculescu, Vasile | Tales of Fantasy and Magic | 1966 | Translations | |
Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass | 1995 | ||
Dische, Irene | Between Two Seasons of Happiness | 1997 | Translations | |
Pressler, Mirjam | Malka | 2001 | Translations | |
Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | 2003 | ||
Asquith, Ros | Castles and Catastrophes (Girl Writer) | 2006 | ||
Stiefvater, Maggie | Shiver | 2009 |