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Great use for Shelfari - forgot until I saw it's cover. I really enjoyed it and do remember it well now. I always marvel at those who go into ER or spend their lives helping others in their most desperate times of need. This was a straight forward glimpse into such a life. A very pleasant co-mingling of spiritual and everyday life.
I read Uglies and enjoyed it--it offers fodder for discussions, expecially during those crazy teen years of trying to fit in. The Westerfeld series was hot last year. We still have checkouts of the books but not as frequently.The Stephenie Meyer series is another matter! We can't keep them on the shelves--the "hold" list is always active and oftentimes by the time a student's name comes up for the book, she has already gone out and bought it because she "couldn't wait" :-)I read Twilight last spring but haven't yet read the others, although I would like to read at least the second in the series and probably the one from Edward's point of view. I also hope to see the movie, just so I can discuss it with my teen book club. I initially didn't expect to like Twilight--I didn't think vampires were my thing--but I was surprised by how enticing it was.Do you or your girls have any other "hot" reads to recommend?Happy reading!Sharon
I read 19 Minutes this past summer; I was totally absorbed... it's upsetting and facinating all at once. The only reason I could joke about the high school theme for BC (Maddog, etc...) is that I have some distance now having read it a few months ago... I plan to start the Sawtelle book tomorrow, although I really want to start Twilight :-) m
I'm looking at Shelfari for the first time months (clearly)...I loved Prodigal Summer. It's one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it twice and listened to it in the car on tape twice (over a period of years, since it first came out.) I loved Kingsolver the first time I read one of her books, and I now read whatever she writes. The only one I didn't like was Poisonwood Bible; I got exhausted with the suffering. Prodigal Summer, though, is a joy. The interweaving of the 3 stories fascinated me.Sara
Claudia... I just joined and put 3 books on my shelf... 2 of which I'm sending you - did you get my phone message... Love... Theresa
Sharon Draper's books are very appealing to minority students. Some, such as Tears of a Tiger (her most popular) are told entirely through dialogue and news articles. Tears of a Tiger is about the friends of a high school student that is killed in a car wreck and how they cope with the loss. Forged by Fire deals with child abuse. They are well-written and very appealing to 6th-10th grade students.
I teach 8th grade, so I try to read a lot of YA fiction and keep an eye on what books are favorites for my students. Personally, I really like Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, and Sharon Draper, for that level. Lowry has more thought-provoking themes than the other two, but they also deal with some serious issues. I have tried to review most of my books; let me know if you're curious about anyone in particular. I also love suggestions for books for YAs. Most of my "Plan to Read" list is YA books.
Ah! Now I know why you read Ghosh in Spanish! I looked at your shelf - lots of friends there. I went to college with Jon Krakauer. Have you read Into the Wild? And his book about Mormons? That was fascinating. tell me about Eat, Pray, Love as I have been wanting to read it and forgot the title until I saw it on your shelf. My family started in Brooklyn. I grew up in the New York suburbs and moved to FL about five years ago from around the New Paltz area. We've got a lot of the same reading tastes. I've just learned a fair amount of Spanish in the last year and a half and am starting to read because I learned just from being at work so I have no literacy skills at all. Yes, the circus exhibit is something to see at Ringling. I had seen it before the book came out. I wondered if it made the visuals in my head stronger, but I am more apt to think that it was the the writing as so many others have loved it.
I really liked it and wound up using parts of it for a training at work. I didn't agree 100% with some of his views, but I learned a lot about some of the nuances and distinctions between the various areas and countries. My kids were both born in Guatemala and I work with a huge Latino population...mostly Mexican, but a mix of Central America, Caribbean and South American people as well. Your workshop sounds interesting. Tell me more...What did you think of Water for Elephants? I live in Sarasota - the ultimate circus town. Funny as I have a morbid fear of clowns.
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Claudia, I have finished reading, The Blood Sisters by Patricia and Stephanie Keating...I tried to put on my shelf but his website did not find it....The next book which is interestig is Dead Father's club by Max Haig..........The first book is about Kenya when it got its independence in the 60's...The descriptions are incredible...Three girls go to boarding school together and the book follows their lives............The second book is about an 11 y/o boy whose father comes back to him as a ghost telling his son that he did not die in a crash and he has to find the killer...Really about grief in a youngster................Right now I am reading People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks which is AWESOME only if you like history...She wrote The Plague....xxoo Jan
