Hi - Happy New Year, everyone! One of my resolutions is to make more local school visits and fly less this coming year. I'm looking for visits within a...
hey all, Happy New Year I just got a call from a patron who works at our local YMCA. They do a program there once a month called Girl's Night Out for middle...
Should I include... Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares? Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson? Kristin Kristin Lade <yalibrarianwi@...> wrote: ...
Do we have Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson on our core collection list? I recently reread this title in to work with the seventh grades and think that it...
What a fantastic opportunity! Congratulations, Kristin! You asked about Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson: I...
Richie's Picks: HE FORGOT TO SAY GOODBYE by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, June 2008, ISBN: 1-4169-4963-1 Notes from my...
Dear middle_school_lit members, First, thank you to Richie for allowing me to pass this information on. I work with Narrate Conferences, a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
Hallie- This has nothing to do with this particular conference, however, two teachers at my middle school and myself did a presentation on visualization in...
Hi Everybody. I am the children's/YA buyer for a National Wholesaler in Canada servicing schools and public libraries, and I am writing you on behalf of my...
Hi all - Happy new year! I resolved to clear out the basement, and my wife is holding me to it. One thing I found down in the abyss is a big box that my...
Wow! Real time notification via cell phone text message of the winners of the Printz, Caldecott, Newbery, Odyssey & more. Here’s info from ALA… Text the...
Richie's Picks: TROUBLE by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, April 2008. ISBN: 978-0-618-92766-1 "When you're lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes your made to feel...
Hi guys, I am hoping for a quick response to this since I have a meeting with the asst. principal of my school on this at 3:00 pm today! A teacher ordered...
If it helps at all - for several years our 7th grade classes always did a novel unit on this book -- they just haven't in awhile 'cause the teachers wanted...
This book is a wonderful read for an 8th grade class. If accolades mean anything to your principal, it's an ALA best book for Young Adults for one thing. The...
In our school district, it is a core literature book. All students in 7th grade must read it. Our teachers do a huge unit on it. Our students love it and 90%...
From School Library Journal Grade 6-9-A wonderful story of triumph over imperfection, shame, and loss. Large, awkward, learning-disabled Maxwell Kane, whose...
Staff from three library systems in the Kansas City metropolitan area came together on Friday January 4 for food and a Mock Printz discussion. Much fun was had...
First of all, thanks to those who rushed out a quick response to my distress call concerning my asst. principal blocking the use of Freak the Mighty in the...
Terrie -- congratulations on standing your ground, and doing extra work to save the title rather than taking the easy way out. I want to thank you for doing...
how do we see the core collection list? sorry-- new guy here. t ... list? I recently ... should be on the list or ... Hangman by Gary ... circle where they...
I'm starting my new literature circle groups soon and I'm wondering if any of you have ever used Ender's Game (by Orson Scott Card) in your classroom? I've...
I use it every year in 8th grade with no issues. Orson Scott Card just won the Edwards award for lifetime achievement for this book and Ender's Shadow. Jan...
... I have the audio version of the book and at the end, there is a segment narrated by Orson Scott Card himself, explaining the history of the story and the...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the middle_school_lit group: CORE COLLECTION POLL #13 Which of these books should become part of the...
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... I agree Laura. I listened to the entire Ender Quartet plus Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon. They were very well done. I don't think middle school ...
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