Lowry, Lois. The giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Print.
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
The 1994 Newbery Medal
Booklist Editors' Choice
Annotation:
A boy is assigned by his community to become the holder of all their
memories. The story shares his thoughts and feelings as he takes on this
awesome task.
Click the link below for a selected read aloud from the book taken from the Random House website.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/mm/audio/4s_9780807262030.mp3
William age 12, Houston, Texas
This
is not a book for children. Our teacher is having us read this book
right now in class. It is embarrassing because It has stuff about sex.
But I do like that she does not make us talk about that stuff in class.
She let's us write in our reading journals anything that we don't want
to share. So that is cool. But then the girls in class want to talk
about all that stuff. This book is full of weird
crazy stuff!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Jellie's Yellin' Horror Story!
Stine, R. L.. The haunted mask. New York: Scholastic, 1995. Print.
The Haunted Mask
Annotation: A young girl selects a mask for Halloween that
takes over her personality whenever she wears it.
Carly Beth is afraid of her own shadow and is
constantly being scared and bullied by classmates and even her little brother.
When a new costume shop opens in town she is determined to buy the scariest mask
to get revenge on everyone, but at what cost to her, her family, friends and
community?
Book Cover: www,scholasticbooks.com
Book Cover: www,scholasticbooks.com
Jellie's Jammin' Graphic Novel! Maximum Ride
Patterson, James. Maximum Ride: the angel experiment. New York: Little, Brown, 2005. Print.
Maximum Ride
By James Patterson
ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
VOYA 2005 Review Editor’s Choice Book
London Times Children’s Book of the Week
2007 IRA Young Adult Choices title
2006 – 2007 Florida Teen Book Award Master List title
2007 New Hampshire Teen Readers Book Award Master List title
2007 – 2008 Missouri Gateway Teen Book Award Master List title
2007 – 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Award Master List title
ALA/YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
VOYA 2005 Review Editor’s Choice Book
London Times Children’s Book of the Week
2007 IRA Young Adult Choices title
2006 – 2007 Florida Teen Book Award Master List title
2007 New Hampshire Teen Readers Book Award Master List title
2007 – 2008 Missouri Gateway Teen Book Award Master List title
2007 – 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Award Master List title
Ever wanted to fly? No not in an airplane. Fly like a real
bird! If you ever wondered what it would be like to have the wings of a bird
then you are really going to like the series Maximum Ride. This flock of six
youth, are humans that have wings. The downside is that they do not know where
they came from, or who their parents are. All they have ever known are cages
and being studied, picked, tested and prodded by scientists in a lab, that they
call the “school”. The story begins and they are hiding deep in the mountains after escaping from the “school”. Until one day their tormenters find them and capture “angel”. From there the chase
and adventures begins as they set out to save their friend, and what a ride, a Maximum ride!
Friday, November 25, 2011
Jammin' Historical Fiction: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy
Schmidt, Gary D. (2004). Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
2005 Newberry Honor Book
2005 Printz Honor Book
Annotation: A ministers family with a young son move into a new town. The boy has experiences adjusting to the move and making new friends.
The hero of the tale is a boy, a minister’s son that moves from Boston to a very small town in Maine and suddenly finds himself under the microscope of small town life. A boy that through his actions of choosing what is true and right finds himself fighting against the movers and shakers in town, while at the same time bringing him closer to his minister father.
Bookcover: www.randomhouse.com
Jammin' Realistic Fiction: The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert. The chocolate war: a novel. New York: Pantheon Books,
1974. Print.
The Chocolate War
By Robert Cormier
Annotation: A young man and his experiences in a new school. Where it seems that no one has any integrity.
It is a story about a boy thrown into an unfamiliar situation with people that you would think are decent, as he is now attending a parochial school, but in reality few of them, including the teachers have any integrity and or scruples at all. Despite all of these odds, the main character, a young man, finds himself making the difficult decision of choosing to do the right thing. Even tough it may just "disturb the universe."
Jellie Jams Review: This is one of those books that everyone always told me was a great book, and being on the Banned Books List also intrigued me. For me this book did not live up to its hype. I have to say that I was disappointed in the story. I thought that he characters could have used some more beefing up.
Bookcover: www.randomhouse.com
The Chocolate War
By Robert Cormier
An ALA Best Books for Young Adults
A School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Choice
A New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year
Margaret A Edwards Award
Annotation: A young man and his experiences in a new school. Where it seems that no one has any integrity.
It is a story about a boy thrown into an unfamiliar situation with people that you would think are decent, as he is now attending a parochial school, but in reality few of them, including the teachers have any integrity and or scruples at all. Despite all of these odds, the main character, a young man, finds himself making the difficult decision of choosing to do the right thing. Even tough it may just "disturb the universe."
Jellie Jams Review: This is one of those books that everyone always told me was a great book, and being on the Banned Books List also intrigued me. For me this book did not live up to its hype. I have to say that I was disappointed in the story. I thought that he characters could have used some more beefing up.
Bookcover: www.randomhouse.com
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Jammin' Slammin Poetry! Multicultural Read: Keesha's House
Michael L. Printz Award - Honor
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Recorded Books Audiotape--finalist for an Audie Award
Keesha's House
by Helen Frost
Frost, Helen. Keesha's house. New York: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Print.
Annotation: The truth, love’s, lives, and trials of 7 youth that runaway from home and their families.
Booktalk: Keesha’s House is where you go when your home is
not homey. Why did you do something that you knew was wrong and would have
undesirable consequences? Who do you turn to when the adults in your life are
the problem and not the solution? You find Keesha’s House.
Jammin' Chick Lit: Saving Francesca
Marchetta, Melina. Saving Francesca. New York: Alfred A. Knopf :, 2004. Print.
Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2004 ; Bank Street College of Education
Bulletin Blue Ribbons, 2004 ; Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Capitol Choices, 2005 ; The Capitol Choices Committee
Children’s Literature Choice List, 2005 ; Children’s Literature
Choices, 2005 ; Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Kirkus Book Review Stars, September 1, 2004
Publishers Weekly Book Review Stars, September 6, 2004
School Library Journal Best Books, 2004
Senior High Core Collection, Seventeenth Edition, 2007
Senior High School Library Catalog, Sixteenth Edition, 2005 Supplement, 2005
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2005
Cuffies: Children’s Booksellers Choose Their Favorite (and not-so-favorite) Books of the Year, 2004 Winner Best Novel for Teens That Adults Would Love
Cuffies: Children’s Booksellers Choose Their Favorite (and not-so-favorite) Books of the Year, 2004 Winner Favorite Novel of the Year
Parents’ Choice Award, 2004 Gold Fiction
Annotation: A high school girl that loses herself when
thrown into a new school environment where she has no real friends, Her mother the
powerhouse of their family gets ill and just cannot get out of bed, and her Dad
seems lost clueless and inept without her. This is Francesca time to be
deciding who she is and where she is going in life but funds herself thrust
into uncertainty. When all around are losing their head who is going to save
Francesca?
Bookcover: www.randomhouse.com
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