Picture and Easy-Reading Books in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Lemons Are Not Red
One of Laura Vaccaro Seeger's visually stunning books for children! I would apply Lemons are Not Red to an introduction to colors, it is good to read aloud and short enough even for the very young.
Book FiestaA beautiful bilingual celebration of books and reading. Fall into an adventure: read! This book could function as an add to a beginning language learner too.
Jr. High Picks |
Move over Rover
Kirkus starred review August 2006:"The bouncy rhymes and expressive paintings complement each other well, melding into a simple but satisfying story that will fit into story hours with themes of rain, dogs, or sharing."
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award
Texas 2 X 2 Reading List [Texas]
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
Sea of the Deadby: Julia Durango
The 2010 Fiction winner The Longest Night |
Anne of Greene GablesI first came across the Anne series in middle school and immediately appreciated the historical and realistic natures of these works of fiction beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Enjoy these stories as recreational reading, or suggest this book as a companion to the study of either the time or place setting.
The Indian in the CupboardRanger's Apprentice
BeautyBy: Robin McKinley
Meanwhile
Meanwhile: Pick any Path by Jason Shiga is what you might
call an interactive or pick your own ending book as well as a graphic novel.
According to the cover there are 3, 856 different stories to experience in this
one work!
Meanwhile was one of the top 10 from the YALSA list of 2011. Leviathan"The Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swords raised. Behind them two ranks of diesel-powered walking machines stood ready to fire, cannon aimed over the heads of the cavalry. A zeppelin scouted no-man's-land at the center of the battlefield, its metal skin sparkling....But a row of Darwinist monsters loomed behind them, ready to devour any who dared retreat." (an excerpt from Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan) All of Victorian Europe perched on the precipice of war. Add to this heady World War 1 stage the division of Darwinists versus Clankers…Don’t know what Clankers and Darwinists are? ...
Moon Over Manifestby Clare Vanderpool
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A Wrinkle in TimeElla EnchantedHow can a fairy's blessing be such a curse? One of my favorite books from middle school this adventure could be compared to classic fairytale stories or entice a reluctant reader.
When You Reach Me
“The
year they are twelve, Sal begins to ignore Miranda and breaks her heart. But
Miranda's attention is diverted when she begins to receive urgent, anonymous
notes in unexpected places.” The YALSA clip above describes When You Reach Me which is a terrific
original story that is like a riddle a combination of fantasy, historical fiction, and references to a personal favorite; the classic, A Wrinkle in Time. Try out Rebbeca Stead's winner of the 2010 John Newberry Medal. (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbya2010.cfm
Pictures of Hollis WoodsThis moving realistic fiction story about orphan Hollis Woods is best as a book, though there is a great audiobook for it. Hallmark made a movie based on this Newberry Honor book by Patricia Reilly Giff.
The Graveyard BookBy Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens was a baby of one when he toddled out his open front door up the hill to the beautiful little graveyard in the nature preserve. Now you might be wondering how a one year old got to be toddling anywhere without supervision and that is the perfect place to begin: “How Nobody Came to the Graveyard…There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. The Knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor…The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.” The Graphic Novel: Artemis Fowl |
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