Booktalks

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 * [[image:pickyreaders/full ride haddix.jpg width="203" height="255"]] || ==//Full-Ride// by Margaret Peterson Haddix==

What if you studied hard and made straight A's, but you couldn't apply for scholarships? You couldn't even fill out college applications. ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/rump.png width="203" height="314"]] || ==//Rump : the true story of Rumpelstiltskin// by Liesl Shurtliff==

Rump just wants to know his own name. How will he know when he finds it? He absolutley didn't want that baby. ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/legend.jpg width="200" height="345"]] || ==//Legend// by Marie Lu==

June and Day are opponents. Both are heroes. June is the youngest and best in the military. Day is the best from the street, a champion of the people. June is challenged to track Day down. Will she find him? Will she bring him down? ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/the ability.jpg width="224" height="323"]] || ==//The Ability// by M.M Vaughn== ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/Missing Girl.JPG width="171" height="238" align="center"]] || == ==

He thinks of the girls as a flock. There are five of them. Five sisters. They are his flock of birds. He has seen these girls nearly a dozen times. Not one of them has noticed him. He has been good for so long.

READ ALOUD: "A Flock of Birds", pages 1 - 3; "Harold and Violet", pages 30 - 33. ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/wonder2.jpg width="246" height="366"]] || == ==

//Wonder// by R. J. Palacio
We are all different. You are supposed to "tolerate" those differences. Tolerate? Can you do that? Can you tolerate someone who is just a bit too different? Do you make fun of them? Talk about them behind their backs? Avoid them? Are you afraid to be seen with them? Would you sit with them during lunch? Would you allow someone to bully them?

What about celebrate? Can you celebrate the differences people have? Should differences be celebrated? All differences? What if someone was born with extreme differences? What if they were born with a face that is not normal at all? Would you stare?

What if you were that person. You have been home schooled all your life. Now, when you are old enough to begin middle school, your parents decide to send you to school ? ||
 * [[image:pickyreaders/sirens storm.jpg align="center"]] || ==//Siren's Storm// by Lisa Papademetriou==

Set in a contemporary seaside resort town with a class distinction between the local residents and the summer vacationers, strange and strained relationships are the norm. Will nearly runs over a girl during a storm which causes him to try to find and save her. Will's family and the small town are dealing with the mysterious disappearance of Will's older brother. A high school student has seemingly gone crazy. All of this may be explained by mythological occurrences. Rick Riordan's fiction mythology series offer a tighter plot, humor, and action.

Some of the descriptions in //Siren's Storm// are overdone, interfere with the flow of the plot, and make it read like a poorly written romance novel. ||