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From: mlgav <mlgav_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:59:46 -0700 (PDT)
As a librarian in a rural school, with some 500 students, I am always har d-pressed books to recommend book for the boys. Past recommendations hav e included "The Outsiders Series" and the books of Roald Dahl.
The newest recommendation was been the series "The Chronicles of Vladmir To d." Yes, i know some consider them to be "Twilight for boys" but at least t hey were reading the books and coming in for the next one in the series. The boys have mastered the art of putting the books on reserved ( a major feat) and are now coming to be for further recommendation.
What do you think i should suggest?
Summer readling lists, what firestorm that started last year, despite all t he research, you would not believe the calls and emails I and the teachers received from parents. The English teachers worked at having genre ba lanced books. This year only our rising eight graders have a summer read ing list, they have to choose 1.
Chains by Laurie Anderson The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Schooled by Gordon Korman A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle Across Five Aprils by Hunt Hattie Big Sky by Larson Summer Ball by Lupica Long Way from Chicago by Peck
~~Mary Gavlik Librarian Chuckey-Doak Middle School Afton, TN 423-787-2039
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.marykay.com/marygavlik
Life is Short. Dance often!
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Susan Daugherty wrote:
From: Susan Daugherty Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 6:42 AM
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, An thony Horowitz, Avi, Jim Murphy, Gary Blackwood, Walter Dean Myers, Chris C rutcher, 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 lis ts (I just subtract a little and add a little) took into account that we sh ould 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 goo d lit!
To tell you the truth, I am having trouble getting anyone in the middle sch ool to read right now. The kids here buy their books because they can af ford anything they want. They are very polite, and they will listen to w hat I read to them, but not being a classroom teacher, I don't see them oft en enough to read that much. I only have a few avid readers here. The downside of being such a small school is that you have fewer kids in your audience, but of course there are many pleasant aspects to being a small sc hool.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-England Coldharbour Lane Thorpe, Surrey TW20 8TE UK
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:59:46 -0700 (PDT)
As a librarian in a rural school, with some 500 students, I am always har d-pressed books to recommend book for the boys. Past recommendations hav e included "The Outsiders Series" and the books of Roald Dahl.
The newest recommendation was been the series "The Chronicles of Vladmir To d." Yes, i know some consider them to be "Twilight for boys" but at least t hey were reading the books and coming in for the next one in the series. The boys have mastered the art of putting the books on reserved ( a major feat) and are now coming to be for further recommendation.
What do you think i should suggest?
Summer readling lists, what firestorm that started last year, despite all t he research, you would not believe the calls and emails I and the teachers received from parents. The English teachers worked at having genre ba lanced books. This year only our rising eight graders have a summer read ing list, they have to choose 1.
Chains by Laurie Anderson The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Schooled by Gordon Korman A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle Across Five Aprils by Hunt Hattie Big Sky by Larson Summer Ball by Lupica Long Way from Chicago by Peck
~~Mary Gavlik Librarian Chuckey-Doak Middle School Afton, TN 423-787-2039
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.marykay.com/marygavlik
Life is Short. Dance often!
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Susan Daugherty wrote:
From: Susan Daugherty Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 6:42 AM
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, An thony Horowitz, Avi, Jim Murphy, Gary Blackwood, Walter Dean Myers, Chris C rutcher, 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 lis ts (I just subtract a little and add a little) took into account that we sh ould 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 goo d lit!
To tell you the truth, I am having trouble getting anyone in the middle sch ool to read right now. The kids here buy their books because they can af ford anything they want. They are very polite, and they will listen to w hat I read to them, but not being a classroom teacher, I don't see them oft en enough to read that much. I only have a few avid readers here. The downside of being such a small school is that you have fewer kids in your audience, but of course there are many pleasant aspects to being a small sc hool.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-England Coldharbour Lane Thorpe, Surrey TW20 8TE UK
---Received on Fri 23 Apr 2010 06:59:46 AM CDT
