At the risk of sounding like a "me, too" I am in the midst of reading The Book Thief. At this point, I think it is very good, but agree that many of my 7th graders would struggle with it. They are so concrete, they would struggle with the flow of the story. I've also read Shakespeare's Secret and Listening For Lions. Next up: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing and/or A Mango Shaped Space. Outside of The Book Thief, Listening For Lions was good, but on much lower level. Patty - Funny you mentioned The Lightning Thief; I tried to read it and decided it was terrible after about 40 pages. Guess I wear my genre bias on my shirt sleeve! I probably did the right thing passing that book on to another teacher to review. :-) Too funny!
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