October 2009
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art imitating life.
growing up, i never encountered a book character who was biracial. nowadays, there still aren’t many but the market seems to be expanding a bit.
here’s what i am reading now. brendan buckley’s universe and everything in it is a chapter book about a 10-year-old biracial boy who is trying to figure out why his mother never talks about the white grandfather he’s never met.
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art work + local library = stairs to the...
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Sheila Egoff Gives Us Some Context →
Good stuff.
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writing contests. for teens. so back off,...
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/teenwriter/ContestsOther.html
a whole list of writing contests. all on one page! what more could you ask for?!
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i'm black and i'm proud.
the skin i’m in. sharon g. flake’s coming-of-age novel has been a student favorite in my classroom library for years.
great for 6th and 7th graders.
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powerful book.
wow.
keesha’s house is full of so many teen issues that it seems like it was taken straight from a case manager’s files.
helen frost wrote the whole book in sestinas (and some sonnets), which makes it even more impressive from a crafting standpoint.
highly recommended for 8th - 10th graders.
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no question.
teach middle school reading or language arts? thinking about reading this book?
do it. you’ll hook your readers immediately.
preview it here.
