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Need to read (5), Need to Read (4), Need to read - classroom (3), didn't like this one very well (2), Excellent (2), young (1), Okay - slow beginning but then good story especially how it shows the women during the 1960's. (1), Another Grandma Dowdel book but from the view is 20-40 years after Joey and Alice were there and the narrator is a boy who's just moved in next door. (1), Loved this fluffy romance and I usually don't like romance books. Set in Cornwall (1), England with the main character a horrible messy person. Several funny parts. Ordered another by the same author on December 28 (1), Excellent easy and quick story about a boy who thinks he's been missing. Shows a boy struggling with reading but excellent with woodcrafting. A mystery (1), Excellent book with the main character an 11 year old girl but a gifted chemist from a wierd family. This is the first in the "to be" series. I've preordered the next one which comes out in March. (1), Not nearly as good as the first one but still enjoyed it. (1), Good. Set in Scotland with a policeman who appears a fool but isn't. Plan to read the next few. (1), A new series but only good for the history. Try one more of them in the future. (1), Good - letters from a woman writer to her editor (1), Great Book sort of like the James Herriot veternarean books but this guy is small village physician. Need to read his others. (1), A girl and her sister are left with their aunt in an old rundown plantation. She begins to dream what actually happened during the Civil War. Very good but ending is not great (1), Excellent book about a village of blacks in Canada and the slave trade in USA during the 1840's (1), Excellent book about black help and white employers during the 60's. (1), and people on Guernsey Island after WW II about what happened during Nazi Occupation and also a love story (1), Interesting premise but a depressing tale (1), who has avoided death for her self and the other young women by telling the Sultan a continuing story each night. Based on the 1001 Arabian Tales (1), the Sultan's wife (1), Marjan is brought to the Sultan's harem in order to supply new stories to Shahrazad (1), Great - good alliterations (1), Good. Young adult that has cancer and two boys that help her plant an arboritum (1), Mary Call tries to keep the family together after her father's death. The family lives in the Smoky Mountains as sharecroppers. (1), An excellent retelling of an ancient Nordic legend involving a monster and mother as well as a dragon - students who love fantasy will love this one. (1), need to read - classroom - used for enriched reading in the 5th grade (1), Loved it. Great book for high schoolers but inappropriate for 6th grade. Drats. Penfriends between two rival schools create friendships and problems. The twisting of the relationships as shown by their letters to one another keeps the story going. (1), Not nearly as good as Elephant Run but boys will love it I think. The story is based in Kenya Africa during a drought. Jacob Lansa goes to Africa after his mother's death to try and find his father who's a research biologist tracking elephants. (1), a friend (1), Good - little stories about the people around him (1), Interesting story of a man who buys a country home in England to garden. (1), Fantastic book. Absolutely one of my favorites. Set in ancie Rome and tells the story of the rise of Vespasian and his freed slave wife Caenis. (1), Poetry free form - boy in foster home writing about the death of his parents in a fire (1), Excellent free verse poetry book (1), Starts slow and not as good as Love that Dog but then becomes very good. Another Poetry book to read aloud (1), Excellent - read again (1), Recommended and will read (1), Great nonfiction book for 6th graders. Also good for unit on Medieval Age and the Black Plague (1), YA book but could be put out for individual reading (1), Good - reread (1), old/young. Outstanding insights on the problems that gays experience as they come of age. (1), Excellent and not at all what I expected. Deals with couples - old (1), Not one of her best (1), Excellent - I have a copy. (1), Great free voice poems from the prospective of a 12 year old girl whose parents are divorce. It would be a great follow-up to Love that Dog. (1), Not as good as the first book. Takes you back to his first garden. (1), Great way to teach free verse poetry. A young boy is forced to listen and write poetry and ends up enjoying himself. Poems in the back of book. Walter Dean Myers is the poet he connects with and that's the poet featured in Watson's Go to Birmingham. (1), Slow beginning and slow plot line but excellent story about a 30 year old woman who goes back and sees and talks to herself when she was 22. (1), Slow beginning but great end. I'm now into the twenties! (1), I loved it. A secluded house in England forest. Herbs and mystery and romance. Buy for my library or read again (1), Very funny. Set in England. Young girl in love but would not be appropriate for some immature readers. Has references to homosexuality that might confuse some young girls. (1), I really liked this one. True story of a young French girl who serves as a messenger during WWII. The beginning is a little dull for readers who would not have any background but you just need to lead them in the beginning and then turn them loose. Girls (1), Setting is in Ancient rome during the Empire time. First book in the Mystery series. (1), Two different covers - one with young boy and one with a woman in a long 1800's dress. Good book for the cival war period and how anyone of us may have a black relative on the family tree. (1), soon to be married (1), Interesting true story but I don't think kids would like the book. It's also for young adults. (1), I probably liked the book because it shows just how crazy parents get over their children. Basically a love story between a high school counselor and a man she previously threw away because her Grandmother felt she could do better. (1), Not as good as I had hoped. Margaret Rose Kane suffers at a summer camp until her uncle rescues her. He and his brother have built towers in their backyard for 45 years but now the city wants them torn down. Margaret fights back. (1), Three widowed women living in a retirement community in Boca Raton find love even late in life. (1), a pioneer in burn treatment (1), Interweaving story of a woment writer who finds out about a young girl in 1942 who was taken by the Nazi's but left her young brother locked in a cupboard in order to save him. Sad story and the woman's marriage also ends. Also about her decision as a 45 (1), Excellent - A 12 year old girl - one side of her family is Italian the other Methodist - after WWII cousin Frankie - funny and a tear jerker - arm stuck in wringer - father accused spy (1), Excellent but deals with sex so put it on the shelf and see what happens (1), Pictures of Mark Twain - okay (1), Great - It's the last book in the Southern Sister Mystery series before the author dies (1), Good but might be confusing to 6th graders. Sort of a mystery - Mrs. Zender has a house like a museum - Amedeo moves in next door and helps William Wilcox and his mother get ready for Mrs. Zender's estate sell. They find a drawing that is part of the Natz (1), First in the Series - love the background of her teaching and husband relationship (1), need to read - classroom - gifted (1), Need to read - classroom book (1), Need to Read - Get DVD from Library (1), Need to read - Susan has library copy (1), Excellent - first book in the series Author is also known as Barbara Michaels and Barbara Mertz (1), realization of the meaning of life is doing something worth remembering. (1), Good - Troubled teen finds meaning of life after being left on deserted island with a large white bear - angry teen (1), not that great - read her first one again (1), Great Book about a 4th or 5th grade girl. She keeps a journal of the things she likes (1), Excellent book - New book out in Spring 09 (1), humorous fiction - read aloud this year (1), DJ trains Brian for Football (1), during (1), abuse by father (1), Okay (1), dislikes (1), mother (1), Not that good. (1), gay (1), nurses (1), Nebraska (1), Short good book but deals with witchcraft - will alarm some parents (1), and interesting words. When she becomes angry at her parents for having a baby (1), Betty Jeffrey was a nurse who was captured by the Japanese and interned on Sumatra for four years. (1), and after WW II. (1), poems (1), Last part of book is excellent. True story written by the pilot himself. He was shot down during the Battle of Britain and burned badly. The book tells about his squadron and his treatment for burns by Dr. McIndoe (1), and especially diaries of the women. How these women worked together without men is very motiviating. Can be compared with the early Stone Age and how and why people needed to work together to survive. (1), and pictures (1), and children that survived Japanese Concentration camps on Sumatra during WW II. Good sources of further information and hymns (1), Great book about the women (1), Excellent information on the Burma -Thai railroad. (1), Irony Central. (1), first year. More information is on his website (1), Cordelia's (1), Very funny book by a computer geek who's never been around babies. This book records his observations during his daughter (1), Great book on Australian prisoners of War in WW II. Excerpts might be used during novel study of Elephant run. (1), Explains Japanese culture and why soldiers during WWII fought the way they did. Dry reading in some parts but very important background information on the Japanese Culture before (1), she gets to pick out the name and she's going to pick the worse name she can. Her grandmother has alzheimers and dies during the book. (1), Great book on the War in the Pacific against Japan. Excellent for use with students to create interest and background. I see that there's a young readers edition that I might be able to use with sixth graders or would it not contain the impact? Maps and i (1), Easy read. Dexter's father is sick with cancer and Dexter has been sent to live with his Grandmother. On the first day at the new school Dexter hits a bigger boy while in the bathroom. Great writing project at beginning of year (1), and Salina. (1), Tuttle Creek (1), Mibs and her family develop unusual talents on their 13 birthdays. Her father is in an accident and she and her brothers try to reach him. The setting is Kansas (1), Great Book but highly inappropriate for 6th graders. Good explanations on the culture and the religion of Greeks (1), The Pulitzer winning book of 2009 in history. Very good background on slavery in 1700 -early 1800's in Virginia. Interesting laws that limited slave owners right to free their own slaves. Slavery is passed down through the mother thus even people that wer (1), Martin Conway hates his school and the hero worship of his grandfather and General Hootin Lowry. He travels back to WW II via an old radio where a young boy asks for his help. The novel is being considered for next year's gifted and enrichment groups. It' (1), Excellent for girls - especially girls who who are experiencing Queen Bee and Wanna Bee classmates as well as the others (in the hopes of seeing themselves) The mothers of four girls decide to form a book club using the book Little Women. The girls are al (1), At the end - do the bunny hop and May Day baskets Observe a students in another classroom and write what you observe and decide what kind of card to give them. Start the book with a collage of pictures. Toward the end of the book students will pick a pict (1), and annoying 4yr. old half brother. He enters 7th grade and fall in love with a girl. He has several close friends and together they get through the year. He meets another girl Marcelene when he moosecalls during her trombone recital. The hormonal escapad (1), sister (Cotiehead) (1), Excellent and very funny for boys at the end of sixth grade (maybe parents of boys too!) Jason Herkimer lives with his very funny stepfather (1), cora accompanies future silent film star to new york (1)
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