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Slide 3: Melissa Stewart is the one who told me about Birds of a Feather: Bowerbirds and Me. She has also written an excellent book about birds called Feathers Not Just for Flying, and it is illustrated by Sarah Brannen. This is an excellent book as well to facilitate a discussion about adaptations. Stewart explains the different uses of various feathers. She uses similes in her text to explain that some feathers are used for sunscreen while others are used for umbrellas. This comparison to everyday objects makes the text very accessible for readers. Lastly, Sarah Brannen’s illustrations also engage the reader because she made it look as if the book were a child’s scrapbook.
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Slide 3: As I mentioned, A Good Kind of Trouble celebrates team sports, particularly track. The main character, Shay, makes new friends on the team and she finds a role model in her coach. The same is true for Ghost in Jason Reynold’s novel, Ghost. He, too, makes new friends and finds a role model in his coach. The neat thing is if you like Ghost and his friends, you can read three other books in the track series. I highly recommend these books.
Slide 8: Lastly, I want to talk about one other aspect of A Good Kind of Trouble that I really enjoyed. There’s a time in the novel where Shay’s mother goes to school and sticks up for Shay’s actions. Her mother confronts the school principal. This was a very powerful moment for me. When I was in middle school there was a teacher who mistreated me, and when I told my mom, she went into school and stuck up for me. I’ll never forget that. Reading that scene in A Good Kind of Trouble made me feel as if I were twelve again.
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Slide 4: I also mentioned that Silver Meadows Summer looks at the melding of two different cultures. I talk about this more in days eight and twelve of the summer 2019 #bookaday challenge. Some of the books I mention there are Pie In the Sky by Remy Lai, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai and Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. If you want more books that look at the melding of two cultures, please check out days eight and twelve.
Slide 9: Another wonderful, modern poet is Amy Ludwig Vanderwater. Silver Meadows Summer made me think of her book Forest Has a Song. It highlights the magic of being in a forest. I also want to point out her book that is specifically for teachers called Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres. This is an excellent title. It’s really fantastic because she has a different poem, by a different author, for several different writing topics. So, if you’re looking for a way to spice up your writer’s workshop or your looking for a way to integrate poetry into your teaching, I highly recommend that you purchase Poems Are Teachers. The other excellent benefit about Poems Are Teachers is she includes all these different poems by all these different authors. If you don’t have a lot of poetry in your library, you can expose your students to several different wonderful authors just by purchasing Poems Are Teachers.
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