Margaret: When I read your post about The Book Thief on Thursday, I thought, "What a great idea!" and "What a coincidence", because I'm reading it right now in anticipation of my book club that will discuss it tomorrow (Monday) night at church. How great that you involved over 40 kids to read such a special book. It made me wonder how I could incorporate something like that at my school.
Then, I got to the end of your post and realized that I know you-another coincidence. We are reading The Book Thief for our church book club since it's going to be announced as Carmel's "One Book" tomorrow, and we got advanced notice from the library. They are going to be holding special events from now until March that relate to the book; maybe some of your students would be interested in attending some of them (and maybe you already knew this when you read the book). For another book to do a similar activity, I would suggest Westerfield's Uglies. That book (and series) is rich for adolescent discussion, copies are relatively inexpensive and easily attainable, and students (boys and girls) like it. Anything from your students' discussions of Book Thief I should share with my book group at Orchard Park tomorrow night? Susie Highley Creston Middle School Media Specialist ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
