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From: bfahey at comcast.net <bfahey>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:10:58 +0000
My favorite is "North To Fredom" by Anne Holm. It has been republished in the U.S. as "I Am David". There is also a movie based on the book that I have not seen, although my fifth graders gave it a good review. This is a remarkable book about a boy who grows up in a concentration camp in eastern Europe. One day a guard inexplicably arranges for the boy to escape, gives him a few scraps of bread and some water, and tells the boy to head north until he gets to Denmark. David is wise and intelligent, but he has no experience of the outside world, so his freedom is a tremendous, albeit welcome, burden to him. I can't say enough good things about this book, and it has been well loved by every adult or child to whom I've shown it. The guard's motives become clear in the end, as does the reason that David must walk north to freedom. Treat yourself!
Brian Fahey Wilmington Friends School Wilmington, DE
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Reid, Robert A." <REIDRA at uwec.edu>
> I'm working on an article featuring outdoor survival read-alouds for Book Links
> magazine later this fall. I'm focusing on recently published books that were not
> written by Gary Paulsen (I'm a huge Paulsen fan, but his name is already
> familiar to many librarians in connection to survival stories). My favorites so
> far are the already mentioned Alabama Moon, The Trap by John Smelcer
> (beautifully written), and Overboard by Elizabeth Fama. They will both appeal to
> both girls and boys - the latter features a girl who is on a ferry that sinks.
> She has to survive the night in the middle of the ocean. Another good read-aloud
> outdoor survival book featuring female protagonists is Danger Mountain by Sherry
> Shahan.
>
> Rob Reid
> Foundations of Education
> College of Education and Social Sciences
> University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
> reidra at uwec.edu
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Received on Sun 22 Jul 2007 10:10:58 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:10:58 +0000
My favorite is "North To Fredom" by Anne Holm. It has been republished in the U.S. as "I Am David". There is also a movie based on the book that I have not seen, although my fifth graders gave it a good review. This is a remarkable book about a boy who grows up in a concentration camp in eastern Europe. One day a guard inexplicably arranges for the boy to escape, gives him a few scraps of bread and some water, and tells the boy to head north until he gets to Denmark. David is wise and intelligent, but he has no experience of the outside world, so his freedom is a tremendous, albeit welcome, burden to him. I can't say enough good things about this book, and it has been well loved by every adult or child to whom I've shown it. The guard's motives become clear in the end, as does the reason that David must walk north to freedom. Treat yourself!
Brian Fahey Wilmington Friends School Wilmington, DE
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Reid, Robert A." <REIDRA at uwec.edu>
> I'm working on an article featuring outdoor survival read-alouds for Book Links
> magazine later this fall. I'm focusing on recently published books that were not
> written by Gary Paulsen (I'm a huge Paulsen fan, but his name is already
> familiar to many librarians in connection to survival stories). My favorites so
> far are the already mentioned Alabama Moon, The Trap by John Smelcer
> (beautifully written), and Overboard by Elizabeth Fama. They will both appeal to
> both girls and boys - the latter features a girl who is on a ferry that sinks.
> She has to survive the night in the middle of the ocean. Another good read-aloud
> outdoor survival book featuring female protagonists is Danger Mountain by Sherry
> Shahan.
>
> Rob Reid
> Foundations of Education
> College of Education and Social Sciences
> University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
> reidra at uwec.edu
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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