[LM_NET] HIT: Bluford High--appropriate for Middle School

["Adame, Shiloh" <shiloh.adame@D300.ORG>]

Thanks for the quick response. I just put them on my order sheet!!! I did have a 
student request them so I think they will do well in my school.
Answers below


My middle school students appreciate a multicultural perspective.



Yes. We have the whole series in our MS.


Yes, I think so,  I have them in my middle school library and they are always 
checked out.  They are gritty and realistic, but language is ok and I don't recall 
any inappropriate parts in the ones I read.

I think 7th and 8th graders will do fine with the book.  A mature 6th grader will 
do all right, too.  The reading level is about 4th grade, but since the main 
characters are in high school, the IL is higher.  Most 5th and 6th graders will 
just probably not be interested in the love aspect (which isn't even PG13) or why 
the parents are separated and the dad is wanting to move back home.  I've had 
success with this book with the African-American males, especially.  Girls want to 
read all 9 books immediately.  I am using it for a book club for 9th graders this 9 
weeks.

I would reserve them for your older students--not sure they are appropriate for 6th 
graders.

Yes...my middle school students love it! It's very clean and they read them over 
and over.


Yes.  It is a very clean series that still manages to get messages across.


Shiloh Adame
Westfield Community School
Library Director/6th Grade Study Skills
shiloh.adame@d300.org<mailto:shiloh.adame@d300.org>


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