| Author: | Gary Paulsen |
| Title: | Hatchet |
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| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 6.3 Guided Reading: R DRA:40 Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Adventure |
| Theme: | Family divorce survival |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Brian Robeson, Parents, Pilot |
| Awards: ALA Notable Book - 1987, Newberry Honor Book - 1988, Booklist Editor's Choice Citation - 1988, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - 1989, Georgia Children's Book Awards - 1991, Young Hoosier Book Awards - 1991 | |
| Publishing Company: | Simon and Schuster |
| ISBN Number: | 978-1-4169-3647-3 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: Brian Robeson, 13, is flying to visit his father when the pilot suffers a heart attack he is forced to fly the plane. He crashes and he finds himself alone in the woods with nothing but a jacket, his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him and of course the secret of why his parents divorced. He has no time for anger or self pity, he has to concentrate on how to survive. He faces many dangers including hunger, animal attacks, and even a tornado. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: To introduce science things such as trees, animals, water, mountains. | |
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Hatchet
Monday, November 19, 2012
The Velveteen Rabbit
| Author: | Margery Williams |
| Title: | The Velveteen Rabbit |
| Illustrator: | William Nicholson |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 4.2 Guided Reading: Q DRA:40 Lexile Measure: 820L |
| Genre: | Children's Picture Book |
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| Theme: | Emotions Growing up and fitting in |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | A boy and toys, rabbit |
| Awards: IRA/CBC Children's Choice | |
| Publishing Company: | Harper Collins |
| ISBN Number: | 0-380-00255-8 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. One day while talking with the horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. When the boy's dog is misplaced, the Velveteen Rabbit is given replacement by his grandmother. The boy becomes too sick too play for a very long time. The doctor says all the toys the boy has played with had to be burned. When the Rabbit cries a real tear the Nursery Magic Fairy appears. She tells the Rabbit that he was only real to the boy, then kisses him and makes him real to everyone. The following spring, the boy sees the Rabbit, thinks he looks like his old Velveteen Rabbit, but he never knows that it actually was. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: To show friendship. | |
Holes
| Author: | Louis Sachar |
| Title: | Holes |
| Illustrator: | none |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 5.2 Guided Reading: V DRA:50 Lexile Measure: 660L |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Realistic |
| Theme: | Friendship and Compassion |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Stanley, Zero, Warden, Gaurds, Inmates |
| Award(s) Date of Publication: Newbery Medal, National Book Award, Boston Globe-Horn, Book Award, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Noteable Book,ALA Quick Pick, Christopher Award for Juvenile Ficiton, New York Times Book Review, Publisher Weekly Best Book of the Year, Bulletin Blue Ribbion, School Library Journal Book of the Year. | |
| Publishing Company: | Dell Yearling |
| ISBN Number: | 0-440-41480-6 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: Stanley Yelnets is convicted of a crime and given the choice of going to jail or to Camp Green Lake. He decides that since he has never been to camp before, he will go check it out. However, when he arrives he finds out this is no regular camp. He must be dig holes in a dried up lake, for building his character.... Then he realizes that the Warden is actually looking for some kind of treasure. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: This book could be used to show the different points of view of every character. | |
The Devil's Arithmetic
| Author: | Jane Yolen |
| Title: | The Devil's Arithmetic |
| Illustrator: | N/A |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 5.1 Guided Reading: X DRA:60 Lexile Measure: 730L |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Historical |
| Theme: | Holocaust WWII |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Hannah, Holocaust Survivors |
Awards: Nebula Award 1988, Jewish Book Council Award & Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Award 1989, Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award 1997
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| Publishing Company: | Puffin trade paperback |
| ISBN Number: | 0-14-034535-3 |
Summary and How would you use the book: The book begins with Hannah not wanting to attend another Passover meal with her family. She is tired of the same stories year after year. This year when she opens the door to symbolically greet Elijah, she is transported away to a rural village in Poland during WWII. After trying to explain who she is, she gives up and accepts that she is now Chaya, a Jewish peasant girl. As the book continues, she realizes she is in the year 1942 and about to be taken to a concentration camp. Hannah ends up offering her life to save another girl. Then, she finds herself back at home staring blankly out the door she had opened for Elijah. She now understands the heartache and pain her grandfather had experienced.
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| Description of how you would use the book: Maybe use this to introduce the Holocaust to younger children and help them paint the picture of times from then without being so graphic. | |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
| Author: | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Title: | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Illustrator: | Karen Cushman |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 6.9 Guided Reading: W DRA:60 Lexile Measure: 850L |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Historical |
| Theme: | Prejustice and Tolerance, friendship |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Kit Tyler, Hannah Tupper, Nat Eaton, Matt and Rachel Wood, Mercy and Judith Wood, William Ashby, John Holbrook, Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Cruff, Prudence Cruff, Captain and Mrs. Eaton, Governor Edmund Andros and Captain Samuel Talcott |
| Award(s) Date of Publication: Newbery Medal 1959 | |
| Publishing Company: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing |
| ISBN Number: | 978-0-547-55029-9 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: 16-year-old Kit Tyler leaves her home in Barbados after her grandfather's death to move to Wethersfield, Connecticut to live with her Aunt Rachel and Uncle Matthew. They stop in Saybrook, where she meets a small girl named Prudence who drops her doll and begs her mother to get it back for her. Kit jumps in and get the doll for her.Mrs. Cruff, Prudence's mother, is the most cynical of them all, believing Kit is a witch, saying, "No respectable woman could stay afloat like that." The one thinkg Mrs. Cruff didn't know was Kit knew how to swim because she lived in the islands. Kit then meets John Holbrook, who was coming to study with Reverend Gershom Bulkeley. When she arrives in Wethersfield, Kit finds Connecticut very different from Barbados. In her previous home, she had servants but here is expected to work along with the rest of the family. No more luxuries and even the weather is very cold. She has two cousins, Mercy and Judith. She is required to attend church. She meets William Ashby who she does not care for him but Kit cousin's Judith hoped to marry William. Kit's life improves when she and Mercy begin teaching the children. Everything goes well until one day, Kit decides the children will act out the tale of the Good Samaritan from the Bible. Mr. Kimberly enters the house just as things get out of hand. He is mad at Kit and she leaves the school and runs into the meadow where she meets Hannah Tupper, who is an outcast. They begin being friends and then Kit meets Nat Eaton. They fall in love except Nat is banished from town because he sat lighted pumpkins in the window of Mr. Ashby's home. Kit also begins privately teaching Prudence to read and write when sudden the town is full of illness. A bunch of people want to kill Hannah because they think she is a witch and cursed the town. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: I would use this book to show different styles of settings, characters and plot | |
Our Shadow Garden
| Author: | Cherie Foster Colburn |
| Title: | Our Shadow Garden |
| Illustrator: | Children of the Children's Cancer Hospital at MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 3-5 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Nature |
| Theme: | Gardening/Healing |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Little girl, grandfather and grandmother |
| Award(s) Date of Publication: Southern Writer's Literacy Award 2009 | |
| Publishing Company: | Bright Sky Press |
| ISBN Number: | 978-1-933979-69-4 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: This book was about a girl whose grandmother was very ill and the little girl wanted to make her grandmother a garden. The grandmother was not able to be out in the daytime so they put flowers and other things up that bloomed at night so the grandmother could get back to her gardening. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: Use to introduce nocturnal animals and introduce plants. | |
Hoot
| Author: | Carl Hiaasen |
| Title: | Hoot |
| Illustrator: | N/A |
| Readability Score: | Grade Level: 5.8 Guided Reading: W DRA: 60 Lexile Measure:760L |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Subgenre: | Realistic |
| Theme: | Mystery |
| Primary and Secondary Characters: | Roy, Dana, Beatrice and Mullet Fingers |
| Award(s) Date of Publication: 2003 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award, Texas Lone Star Reading List, ALA Notable Children's Book, Newbery Honor Book, Maine Student Book Master List, Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Association Book Award; 2004 Kentucky Bluegrass Master List; 2005 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award, Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award; 2006 Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award | |
| Publishing Company: | Alfred A Knopf |
| ISBN Number: | 0-375-82181-3 |
| Summary and How would you use the book: Roy moves again. The family moves around a lot so he is used to being the new kid. He gets picked on by a big bully. While being bullied by Dana he sees a kid running away from the bus and he has no shoes on. This seems very odd to Roy, so he sets out to find out who the boy is and why he doesn't attend school. What Roy didn't know, is the boy is the stepbrother of Beatrice. Meanwhile, there are several occurrences of vandalism on a construction site. Roy, Beatrice and her stepbrother, concoct a scheme to save some burrowing owls on the construction lot. | |
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| Description of how you would use the book: This book could be used to show the different plots and how character interact with each other | |
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