Two excellent novels:
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (I also liked Creech's Heartbeat)
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
"'Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything here!'" (David
McPhail, Lost)
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:12:43 -0400> From: bshuffman@BURKE.K12.NC.US> Subject:
>TAR=> MID: new class novel ideas> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> > My assistant
>principal has asked me if I can come up with some suggestions for more current
>books to become class reads for the Language Arts teachers. We are in a pretty
>conservative, rural environment so classroom novels would need to be pretty clean.
>So far, I have come up with Lighning Thief and Adam Canfield of the Slash. If you
>have any other ideas for this age group, please share! TIA!> > Brandy Huffman>
>Media Coordinator> Walter Johnson Middle School> Morganton, NC 28655> (828)
>430-7340> bshuffman@burke.k12.nc.us> > "Wicked people never have time for
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