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From: BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:34 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/7/2012 10:41:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, horning_at_education.wisc.edu writes:
Which Printz Award or Honor books have you found especially appealing (or even accessible) to middle school students? In addition to Speak (my all-time favorite Printz-recognized book), I've seen eighth graders getting excited time and again about many of the edgy/smart contemporary fiction titles that have been honored over the years. These include:
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Looking for Alaska by John Green Keesha's House by Helen Frost The First Part Last by Angela Johnson Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman Monster by Walter Dean Myers Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Leaving aside Speak -- which is not your typical middle school read (but is one which I continue to advocate every eighth grader reading before heading off to high school) -- there is only one time that a Printz committee has recognized a true middle school book. That is the well-deserved honor awarded to Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt.
This makes me suspect that Printz committees either ignore the fact that YA equals 12-18, not 14-18 or 15-18 (Leave that one for Newbery.), or else seem to feel that a middle school book -- no matter how well written -- cannot measure up with those older fiction titles that, in so many cases, could just as easily have be published as adult.
Richie Partington, MLIS Richie's Picks _http://richiespicks.com_ (http://richiespicks.com/) BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com Moderator _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/middle_school_lit/) _
Received on Tue 07 Aug 2012 12:00:34 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:34 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/7/2012 10:41:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, horning_at_education.wisc.edu writes:
Which Printz Award or Honor books have you found especially appealing (or even accessible) to middle school students? In addition to Speak (my all-time favorite Printz-recognized book), I've seen eighth graders getting excited time and again about many of the edgy/smart contemporary fiction titles that have been honored over the years. These include:
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Looking for Alaska by John Green Keesha's House by Helen Frost The First Part Last by Angela Johnson Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman Monster by Walter Dean Myers Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Leaving aside Speak -- which is not your typical middle school read (but is one which I continue to advocate every eighth grader reading before heading off to high school) -- there is only one time that a Printz committee has recognized a true middle school book. That is the well-deserved honor awarded to Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt.
This makes me suspect that Printz committees either ignore the fact that YA equals 12-18, not 14-18 or 15-18 (Leave that one for Newbery.), or else seem to feel that a middle school book -- no matter how well written -- cannot measure up with those older fiction titles that, in so many cases, could just as easily have be published as adult.
Richie Partington, MLIS Richie's Picks _http://richiespicks.com_ (http://richiespicks.com/) BudNotBuddy_at_aol.com Moderator _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit/_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/middle_school_lit/) _
Received on Tue 07 Aug 2012 12:00:34 PM CDT
