using picture books and novels to motivate middle school readers /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nancy J. Polette, Joan Ebbesmeyer.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Greenwood village, Colo. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Teacher Ideas Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xviii, 125 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Issues -- Civil Disobedience -- Connection: Civil Protest : Rebel by Allan Baillie ; Discussion ; The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill -- Creativity -- Connection: The Creative Spirit : The Collector of Moments by Quint Buccholz ; Discussion ; Chicago Blues by Julie Reece Deaver ; Destiny by Vicki Grove -- Differences -- Connection: Marching to a Different Drummer : Aliens in My Nest: Squib Meets the Teen Creature by Larry Shles ; Discussion ; Lizard by Dennis Covington ; Seventh Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw ; Geeks by Jon Katz -- Connection: Judging by Appearances : Appearing Tonight, Mary Heather Elizabeth Livingstone by Oliver Dunrea ; Discussion ; Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White ; Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M.E. Kerr ; The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton -- Connection: Understanding Differences : Wings by Christopher Myers ; Discussion ; Randall's Wall by Carole Fenner ; Strays Like Us by Richard Peck -- Guns and Violence -- Connection: Coping with Guns and Violence : Just One Flick of a Finger by Marybeth Lorbiecki ; Discussion ; One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox ; The Rifle by Gary Paulsen -- The Holocaust -- Connection: Gentiles Saving Jews : Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti ; Discussion ; Forging Freedom by Hudson Talbott ; Number the Stars by Lois Lowry -- Connection: Coping with the Holocaust : Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank ; Children of Bach by Eilis Dillon ; The Grey Striped Shirt by Jacqueline Jules -- Connection: Surviving War : The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco ; Discussion ; Good Night Maman by Norma Fox Mazer ; Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo -- Homelessness -- Connection: Coping with Homelessness : Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Tonight by Sea by Francis Temple ; Monkey Island by Paula Fox.
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Lures to Language -- Alliteration : Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; Fed Up! A Feast of Frazzled Foods by Rex Barron ; The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg -- Anagrams : Elvis Lives and Other Anagrams by Jon Agee -- Biography Poems : The Microscope by Maxine Kumin -- Descriptive Writing : Todd by Ruth Brown -- Exaggeration : Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg ; Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs -- Metaphor/Personification : Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger ; Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root ; Workshop by Andrew Clements -- News Article : The Egyptian News by Scott Steedman -- Nonfiction Narrative : White Bear, Ice Bear by Joanne Ryder -- Opposites : Fortunately by Remy Charlip -- Palindromes : So Many Dynamos by Jon Agee -- Parody: Cinderella : Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale by Joanne Compton ; Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston ; Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale by Helen Ketteman ; Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson ; Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters ; Cinderella, Skeleton by Robert San Souci ; Cinderella's Rat by Susan Meddaugh ; Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween by Deborah Lattimore ; Dinorella by Pamela Duncan Edwards -- Parody: Fairy Tales : The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka ; Hansel and Pretzel by Mike Thaler ; Jim and the Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs ; Help Yourself, Little Red Hen! by Alvin Granowsky ; Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley ; Sleepless Beauty by Frances Minters ; Snow White in New York by Fiona French ; Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl ; True Story of the Three LIttle Pigs by Jon Scieszka ; Fairy Tales from Another Point of View by Nancy Polette.
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Magic -- Connection: Finding Magic : Nobody Rides the Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell ; Discussion ; Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville ; The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen -- Mind Control -- Connection: Fighting Those Who Control : The Watertower by Gary Crew ; Discussion ; A Dusk of Demons by John Christopher ; The Giver by Lois Lowry ; Others See Us by William Sleator -- Miracles -- Connection: Experiencing Miracles : The Acrobat and the Angel by Mark Shannon ; Discussion ; The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans ; The Trees Kneel at Christmas by Maud Hart Lovelace -- Native American Identity -- Connection: Preserving Identity : Cheyenne Again by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; A Woman of Her Tribe by Margaret A. Robinson ; The Rainmakers by E.J. Bird -- Perception -- Connection: Different Perceptions : Switch on the Night by Ray Bradbury ; Discussion ; Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi -- Connection: Different Perspectives : From a Distance by Julie Gold ; Discussion ; Fly Free by C.S. Adler ; The Door in the Lake by Nancy Butts -- The Pioneer Spirit -- Connection: Pioneer Life : Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner ; Discussion ; Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner ; Bluestem by Frances Arrington -- The Power of Nature -- Connection: Appreciating Nature : The Bird House by Cynthia Rylant ; Discussion ; Going Through the Gate by Janet S. Anderson -- Connection: Facing Danger : River of Life by Debbie S. Miller ; Discussion ; River Runners by James Huston ; River Danger by Thomas J. Dygard -- Connection: Coping with Winter : The Silver Swan by Michael Morpurgo ; Discussion ; Tracks in the Snow by Lucy Jane Bledsoe ; The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare -- The Price of Freedom -- Connection: Those in Bondage : The Wagon by Tony Johnston ; Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; Discussion ; Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen ; Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons ; Dear Austin by Elvira Woodruff -- Problems of Society -- Connection: Resisting Drugs : The House That Crack Built by Clark Taylor ; The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam ; Discussion ; Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers -- Connection: Fighting Drugs : Riding the Tiger by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; Go Ask Alice by Anonymous ; Breaking the Ring by Donna Walsh Inglehart -- Connection: The Inner City : Smoky Night by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; The $66 Summer by John Armistead ; Circle of Fire by William Hooks -- Connection: The Great Depression : Tree of Hope by Amy Littlesugar ; Discussion ; Treasures in the Dust by Tracey Porter ; Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine -- Connection: Consequences of Carelessness : The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg ; Discussion ; Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes.
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Parody: Literary and Film : The Happy Hockey Family by Lane Smith ; Kat Kong by Dave Pilkey ; Oh Brother! by Arthur Yorinks ; Black Hearts at Battersea by Joan Aiken ; The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman ; The December Rose by Leon Garfield ; The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ted Dewan -- Swine Lake by James Marshall ; Honk by Pamela Duncan Edwards ; About Swan Lake -- Parody: Mother Goose : The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam ; The Thinker's Mother Goose by Nancy Polette ; Whatever Happened to Humpty Dumpty? And Other Surprising Sequels to Mother Goose Rhymes by David Greenberg -- "Paul Revere" Poetry : Iron Horses by Verla Kay ; Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails by Verla Kay -- Puns : Ding Dong, Ding Dong by Margie Palatini ; Hoots and Toots and Hairy Brutes by Larry Shles ; Nose Drops by Larry Shle -- The Quest Tale : Pondlarker by Fred Gwynne -- Repetition : The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes -- Similes : A Surfeit of Similes by Norton Juster -- Story Starters : Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg -- Tone Poem : Listen to the Rain by Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault.
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Self-Identity -- Connection: Finding One's Way : Goose by Molly Bang ; Discussion ; Nowhere to Call Home by Cynthia deFelice ; Park's Quest by Katherine Paterson -- Connection: Finding One's Identity : The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek by Jenny Wagner ; Discussion ; Even Stephen by Johanna Hurwitz ; Hold Fast to Dreams by Andrea Davis Pinkney -- Suicide -- Connection: Coping with Suicide : I Never Knew Your Name by Sherry Garland ; Discussion ; Face at the Edge of the World by Eve Bunting -- The Wages of War -- Connection: Classic Struggles : The Illiad and the Odyssey, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams ; Discussion ; Aleta and the Queen by Priscilla Galloway ; The Immortal by Christopher Pike -- Connection: Finding Courage : The Cello of Mr. O. by Jane Cutler ; Discussion ; The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito by Sheila Garrigue ; The Cay by Theodore Taylor -- Connection: Finding Hope : The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico ; Discussion ; Stones in the Water by Donna Jo Napoli -- Connection: The Aftermath of War : The Wall by Eve Bunting ; Discussion ; December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn ; The Car by Gary Paulsen -- Wisdom -- Connection: Finding Wisdom : The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale retold by Mary Casanova ; Discussion ; Yossi Tries to Help God by Miriam Chaikin ; Switchers by Kate Thompson -- Witchcraft -- Connection: Facing Witchcraft : The Red Heels by Robert San Souci ; Discussion ; Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan ; The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare -- Working Together -- Connection: Collaborating : The Eagle and the Wren, a Fable retold by Jane Godall ; Discussion ; Willie the Frog Prince by C.S. Adler ; What's to Be Scared of, Suki? by C.S. Adler.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Motivate middle school students to become more involved in literature! Introducing hundreds of sophisticated and thought-provoking picture books on a variety of topics, this book shows you how to connect students to literature through picture books. Each title was carefully chosen, using as criteria the quality of the writing, the importance of its message, and how easily it could serve as a springboard to novels. Students will become familiar with the basic components of literature, understand idioms and analogies, recognize literary devices, and determine a text's main ideas. Each topic incl.