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Breaking Through
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I am an ESL teacher who works with 7th and 8th grade, primarily male, Latino and Hmong students. We first read The Circuit which told about Francisco Jimenez's family's first years as migrant farm workers in the United States. This autobiographical account relates the struggles the family encountered during Jimenez's early years in school. The older ch... »
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The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
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In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. W... »
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Forever . . .
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Judy Blume's books for children are wonderful and uplifting, so I was surprised and shocked by this one. Forever is a book about sex, abortion and other things meant to be controversial not uplifting or funny - clearly making it a book for older teens and not a book for Blume's usual audience. Although the book was a good read, it's a little odd to be ... »
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Lord of the Flies
I purchased this version of Lord of the Flies for my children, with the thought that listening to the author narrate the story would make it more interest... »
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Black Beauty
A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this c... »
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Kim (Penguin Classics)
One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero... »
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The Chronicles of Narnia
This is a great family movie. I love the way it parallels to the story of Jesus and how he paid the ultimate price for our sins!... »
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