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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:51:05 -0700
I would suggest Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time I ndian. So far teachers and librarians at middle-schools and high-schools h ave reported back to me with great enthusiasm that boys love this book. Gi rls do too, and so do their parents.
Nancy Bo Flood Instructor, College of Education, Northern ARizona University and formerly, Instructor, Dine' Navajo College
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:59:46 -0700 From: mlgav_at_yahoo.com Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
As a librarian in a rural school, with some 500 students, I am always h ard-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 they 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 a ll the research, you would not believe the calls and emails I and the tea chers received from parents. The English teachers worked at having genre ba lanced books. This year only our rising eight graders have a summer readin g 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 , 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 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 often 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 school.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-EnglandColdharbour LaneThorpe, Surrey TW20 8TEUK
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:51:05 -0700
I would suggest Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time I ndian. So far teachers and librarians at middle-schools and high-schools h ave reported back to me with great enthusiasm that boys love this book. Gi rls do too, and so do their parents.
Nancy Bo Flood Instructor, College of Education, Northern ARizona University and formerly, Instructor, Dine' Navajo College
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:59:46 -0700 From: mlgav_at_yahoo.com Subject:
Books for boys To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
As a librarian in a rural school, with some 500 students, I am always h ard-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 they 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 a ll the research, you would not believe the calls and emails I and the tea chers received from parents. The English teachers worked at having genre ba lanced books. This year only our rising eight graders have a summer readin g 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 , 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 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 often 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 school.
Susan
Susan Daugherty, Middle School Librarian TASIS-EnglandColdharbour LaneThorpe, Surrey TW20 8TEUK
---Received on Sat 24 Apr 2010 04:51:05 PM CDT
