Book+Connections

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__Newberys and the 'Net__

 * __[|Literature Learning Ladders - Newberys by Title]__
 * __[|Make Your Own Literature Learning Ladders]__

__Animorphs__
If you like the **Animorphs** series
 * Go to this Scholastic site to morph some people, see a book trailer (scroll down to find it), and see other books you might like.
 * Go to Build Your Wild Self to play with morphing. Share this site (and help) younger brothers and sisters. You could read //**Where the Wild Things Are**// by Maurice Sendak to preschoolers - first graders too so they have a reading connection. Take a peek at **Where the Wild Things Are**.

__**Asperger's and Autism Fiction Characters**__

 * //Al Capone Does My Shirts// by Gennifer Choldenko
 * //Anything but Typical// by Nora Raleigh Baskin
 * Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
 * //Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Authistic Savant: a Memoir// by Danile Tammet (92 TAM)
 * //London Eye Mystery// by Siobhan Dowd
 * //Mindblind// by Jennifer Roy
 * //Mockingbird// by Kathryn Erskine
 * //Rules// by Cynthia Lord
 * //Running on Dreams// by Herb Heiman
 * Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 * //A Wright and Wong Mystery: The Case of the Prank that Stank// by Laura Burns and Melinda Metz

__**Asperger's and Autism Connections**__

 * [|Asperger Syndrome Fact Sheet]
 * [|Autism Fact Sheet]
 * [|Stephen Wiltshire draws New York Skyline from memory]. [|The Stephen Wiltshire Gallery]

__**Basketball**__

 * [|James LeBron reads]

__Bullying__
In the news: []

__**Charles Darwin**__
If you like **//The Danger Box//** by **Blue Balliett**, you might want to take this **Virtual Tour of Darwin on the Beagle**. Read this interview with Blue Balliett and she can introduce you to other famous people besides Charles Darwin.

__** Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis **__ The chronological order of the series is 1. //The Magicians Nephew// 2. //The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe// 3. //The Horse and His Boy// 4. //Prince Caspian// 5. //The Voyage of the Dawn Treader// 6. //The Silver Chair// 7. //The Last Battle.// The books were not written or published in chronological order, so, originally, the first book was //The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe//. Go to [|Narnia Chronology]for more information and for games.

__**Japanese Treatment during World War II**__
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii Territory. (Hawaii didn't become a state until August 21, 1959.) More than 2,300 Americans were killed. Twelve American ships were destroyed or damaged. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed; the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. The United States declared war on Japan the next day. This is how the United States entered World War II. Japan's allies declared war against the United States soon after.

__** Pearl Harbor Picture Collections **__


 * Image collection of the bombing from the National Parks Services. []
 * U.S.S. Arizona Memorial web site: []
 * Image collection of Pearl Harbor from the Navy []

The United States was at war as a direct result of Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor. Also, Japanese Americans and anyone who looked Japanese were not trusted because of the bombing. Suddenly, Japanese Americans were being treated as the enemy. Their homes, businesses, and possessions were taken from them and they were sent off to camps.

__** Non-Fiction Books **__ > by Joanne Oppenheim This is a true story and a collection of correspondence (letters) that incarcerated Japanese American children sent to Clara Breed. Web site for the book: [] > __** Fiction Books **__
 * //Air-Raid Pearl Harbor: The Story of December 7, 1941// by Theodore Taylor
 * //Dear Miss Breed: The True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian who Made a Difference//
 * //Aleutian Sparrow// by Karen Hesse
 * //The Fences Between Us// by Piper Davis
 * //Kira-Kira// by Cynthia Kadohata

__Lorien Legacies__
//**Read I am Number Four**// by Pittacus Lore and then go to the Lorien Legacies' web page: [] Find out more about the characters and other books in the series. Play the games and activities. Watch the book trailer: []

__Poetry__
Go to [] to generate your own poems.

__Twitter__

 * //Twitterature//** is the title of a book and also literature retold through tweets. Tweets are only 149 characters. We could take this challenge! Can you retell a Harry Potter book in only 149 characters?!! (A character is any letter, space, punctuation mark --anything that takes up a space.) I need to add some twitterature examples.

__Wondla__
Read **//The Search for Wondla//** and **//A Hero for Wondla//**//, books by// //Tony DiTerlizza// then go to the Wondla website at []. Play games, explore the Wondla map, read about the author, and explore the extras on the website. There is also a free Wondla app for iPads. See //The Search for Wondla//book trailer: []