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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:18:34 -0700
Hello Susan,
Yours is an English school but I am curious, are any of the books on the list authored by a Native American such as Joseph Bruchac? Or an American woman?
Nancy Bo Flood
Chinle, Arizona (USA)
wflood_at_hotmail.com www.nancyboflood.com
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:42:29 -0700 From: susaninaruba_at_yahoo.com Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
I just checked our summer reading lists to see if we are prejudiced, and I think we are doing OK. We feature the authors C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl , Anthony Horowitz, Avi, Jim Murphy, Gary Blackwood, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher, Terry Pratcher, and Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Cormier, among many others.
We seem to have many novels about boys and girls and some nonfiction books about different subjects, but clearly the first person to compile these l ists (I just subtract a little and add a little) took into account that we should be trying to appeal to everyone. It's frustrating to make lists bec ause you can only make a list so long. You have to leave out so much good lit!
To tell you the truth, I am having trouble getting anyone in the middle s chool to read right now. The kids here buy their books because they can afford anything they want. They are very polite, and they will list en to what I read to them, but not being a classroom teacher, I don't s ee them often enough to read that much. I only have a few avid readers her e. The downside of being such a small school is that you have fewer kids i n your audience, but of course there are many pleasant aspects to being a small school.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-England Coldharbour Lane Thorpe, Surrey TW20 8TE UK
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:18:34 -0700
Hello Susan,
Yours is an English school but I am curious, are any of the books on the list authored by a Native American such as Joseph Bruchac? Or an American woman?
Nancy Bo Flood
Chinle, Arizona (USA)
wflood_at_hotmail.com www.nancyboflood.com
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:42:29 -0700 From: susaninaruba_at_yahoo.com Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
I just checked our summer reading lists to see if we are prejudiced, and I think we are doing OK. We feature the authors C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl , Anthony Horowitz, Avi, Jim Murphy, Gary Blackwood, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher, Terry Pratcher, and Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Cormier, among many others.
We seem to have many novels about boys and girls and some nonfiction books about different subjects, but clearly the first person to compile these l ists (I just subtract a little and add a little) took into account that we should be trying to appeal to everyone. It's frustrating to make lists bec ause you can only make a list so long. You have to leave out so much good lit!
To tell you the truth, I am having trouble getting anyone in the middle s chool to read right now. The kids here buy their books because they can afford anything they want. They are very polite, and they will list en to what I read to them, but not being a classroom teacher, I don't s ee them often enough to read that much. I only have a few avid readers her e. The downside of being such a small school is that you have fewer kids i n your audience, but of course there are many pleasant aspects to being a small school.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-England Coldharbour Lane Thorpe, Surrey TW20 8TE UK
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