I had tears in my eyes, and I hadn’t even reached the end of the Prologue. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is one of the most moving books for teenagers (and adults) that I’ve read in a long, long time. It may be the best novel about the holocaust ever written. It moved me [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reading Recommendations'
The Book Thief Review
September 26th, 2007 · 11 Comments · Literature, Reading Recommendations, Reviews
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Recommended Reading List for Junior High by Nancie Atwell
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Book Lists, Reading Recommendations, Teen Literacy
Nancie Atwell’s book The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers is a manifesto for change in reading classrooms. She successfully argues that the key to reading instruction is to arrange our teaching so that students can engage in “frequent, voluminous, self-selected reading.” To help teachers develop classroom libraries of [...]
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100 Recommended Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for Junior High Students
September 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Book Lists, Literature, Reading Recommendations, Science Fiction
My list of 300 Recommended Books for Junior High Students may have been erroneously removed from Scribd (see my article about this here, and the ars technica article here), but it’s not forgotten. Today I’m reproducing the science fiction and fantasy portions of the list for those of you who are interested. What’s more, I’ve [...]
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