Re: [LM_NET] Target: YA Book About Choices

[Erin Schramm <eeschramm@GMAIL.COM>]

I just read "Painting the Black" by Carl Deuker for my YA Lit and Resources
class and it seems to fit what you are looking for pretty perfectly.
Here's a link to it on Amazon so you can read the description:

http://www.amazon.com/Painting-Black-Avon-Camelot-Books/dp/0380731045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267571913&sr=8-1

Erin Schramm
Current MLS/Youth Services grad student at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
eeschramm@gmail.com

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Barbara Karp <basyak10@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins is about an Indian teen who, following a
> family tragedy, makes a choice that could mean the end of her personal
> happiness but will secure the future of her older sister and mother.  A
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> > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:08:57 -0600
> > From: BMartin@DCE.K12.WI.US
> > Subject: Target: YA Book About Choices
> > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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> > I am helping a High School teacher who is looking for a book that would
> work well as an anchor text for reluctant readers. The book should be about
> making choices. There will be a large selection of choice books later, but
> this would be a book that the whole class would read together. So far I have
> considered
> >
> > Whirligig
> > Unwind
> > The Hunger Games
> >
> > Do any other titles come to mind as a great selection for this theme?
> Thanks so much.
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> > Beth Martin
> > Teacher Librarian
> > DC Everest Middle School IMC
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