[LIT] Update favorite "read-aloud"

[Lucinda Marcello]

Lois Lowry is a wonderful writer. We loved Number the Stars (historical 
fiction) and The Giver. She has a good author website we searched as a class 
in the computer lab. She even responded to me on her blog. The 6th graders 
loved that.

Among the Hidden was loved by my 7th graders this year. Many, many went on 
to read the other books in this series as it started them in that fine 
direction. I like to read books in a series to hook them.

Lucinda
Tucson, Arizona
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From: "kimberlee hannan" <mrshannan6th at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [LIT] Update favorite "read-aloud"


> My favorite read alouds are The Giver (Lois Lowery), Among the
> Hidden(Margaret Haddix), and The
> Last Book in the Universe (Rodman Philbrick).  These are tried but true
> favorites, but the sequels Messenger, Gathering Blue and many more 
> "Amongs"
> just aren't great read alouds.  They are however, great books to send kids
> to when you are done with the read alouds.
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-8777963-9859111?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Rodman%20Philbrick>--
>
> Kimberlee Hannan
> Department Chair
> Sequoia Middle School
> Fresno, CA
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