[LIT] Change through the eyes of children

[Patricia Sankey]

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Patricia Sankey
Reading Specialist
Templeton Middle School

>>> "Bill IVEY" <bivey at sbschool.org> 1/21/2007 6:12 PM >>>
Hi!

Before We Were Free, Julia Alvarez (last days of Trujillo in the
Dominican
Republic)
The Endless Steppe, Esther Hautzig (true story; exile to Siberia
during
World War II)
A Step From Heaven, An Na (emigrating from Korea to the U.S.)

Of course, most young adult literature deals with change of one sort 
or
another. "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass, for example, is a coming
of
age novel in which a catalyzing event is the diagnosis of synesthesia
in
Mia, the protagonist, which entirely changes how she sees herself.

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School


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