[LM_NET] TARGET: Fictive Personal Narratives, Middle School

["Hastings, Jeff" <HASTINGJ@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM>]

Colleagues:
 
The state department of education seems to have Michigan's English
Language Arts teachers focused like hypnotized chickens on genre studies
these days. For a school librarian, this can be heaven and hell; it
drives a lot of diverse reading, but also challenges one to assemble
on-demand bibs and breakout collections based on what are sometimes
pretty nebulous genre designations. 
 
Know what I'm saying? Is this happening in your part of the world, too?
 
Anyhow, In anticipation of such a request, I'm writing to ask your help
in compiling one such genre list today--as far as I can tell from
searching the archive, none exists to date. I'll post this one if you
help me populate it. Deal?
 
I'd like to assemble a list of fictive personal narratives, fiction in
which a main character tells a first person story. An example would be
Bud, not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis' novel in which Bud tells his
story of busting out of his orphanage and trekking across depression-era
Michigan in search the man he thinks is his father. 
 
One last thing: Just to make this a real, level 5, top-notch challenge,
I would like to keep the list limited to titles suitable for 6th and 7th
graders. 
 
Thanks for your help on this, my friends. Even if you just have a single
favorite novel that fits the criteria, please don't hesitate to write me
and, together, we'll assemble a useful bibliography.
 
Jeffrey Hastings,
School Librarian,
Highlander Way Middle School
Howell, Michigan 
 
hastingj at howellschools dot com
 
 
 


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