MIDDLE: HIT: Good fiction read involving soc. studies and geog.

[Janice Force <forcej@ISD.INGHAM.K12.MI.US>]

Could you recommend a good fiction read with high appeal for a 7th grade
social studies teacher to use with her whole class?  (They've just
finished So Far From the Bamboo Grove.)  TIA.

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        Janice M. Force, Library Media Specialist
        Pattengill Middle School, Lansing, Michigan
        forcej@isd.ingham.k12.mi.us
        "Nature finds in every season, some beauty of its own"...Dickens
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