![]() ![]() This person will know who the local published authors are. Contact the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators at SCBWI and find out who the regional advisor is for your area.Be clear on the difference between traditionally published and self-published authors. ![]() Most of these titles appear in the last stanza of “Dead Rapper Rap” so you may shorten the activity by reading the final stanza only. “Skandalouz,” “All Eyez on Me,” 2Pacalyptic or the album 2Pacalypse Now, “Keep Ya Head Up,” “I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto,” “Only God Can Judge Me,” and “2 Die 4”). Then ask them to identify the 2Pac song titles or albums appearing in the lines of verse (i.e. ![]() Ask students to identify the name of the poet/poem that this poem was based upon (Poe and “The Raven”). Studying the format of Poe’s poem and looking up 2Pac titles was the research necessary for writing the spoof. For example, you may use the poem “Dead Rapper Rap” from page 320 of Carolee Dean’s verse novel, Forget Me Not (poster/poem download available on her website at This poem is a spoof on Poe’s “The Raven.” It describes the ghost of the rapper 2Pac appearing as a substitute teacher and several of his song titles appear in the poem. Ask students to identify information in the reading that required research. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story moves along with speed and nail-biting moments, and is peppered with Dahl’s witty humour. The drama continues when they are confronted and chased by the infamous, shape-shifting, killing vermicious Knids!ĭahl was reported to have a strong interest in science and space travel and wrote Charlie and Great Glass Elevator just a few years after the moon landing. The US government mistakes them for aliens and broadcasts their intrusion to the entire world. ![]() We are launched straight into the action when the gang is shot into space and enters the newly built floating space hotel. The familiar characters are as loveable as ever, Mr Wonka with outrageous knowledge and ability to make the ordinary completely extraordinary, Charlie’s optimism, the delightful Grandpa Jo and of course the bed-loving, grumpy Grandma Georgina and Mr and Mrs Bucket. However, this wild romp begins right where Charlie and his family left off - inside the glass elevator - and continues to take the reader up, up and beyond. But how could any book follow the mouth-watering, delightful world of the chocolate factory? The gobstoppers, Veruca Salt, Mike TV? ![]() Roald Dahl, of course.Īs a child, I remember reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and immediately wanting to read the sequel. An elevator which travels into space, shape-shifting aliens, a floating hotel, wonka-vites that will take you to Minusland? There is only one author that can create such magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, troublemaker that he is, he knows that damaging a lady's good name isn't sporting. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. He's lost a perfectly good bride through his own carelessness. The Duke of Ashmont's looks make women swoon. Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra's reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister's future and her family's good name along with them. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can't marry until Cassandra does. USA Today bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, The Taming of the Shrew.Ĭassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn't shy about voicing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Basically, funny books are the most requested books in the children's rooms of libraries and the most difficult kinds of books to recommend. You can't help but appreciate it, regardless of whether or not you're a fan of guys holding light sabers in outer space. Sure, you might have a few folks avoid it because there appears to be a Star Wars reference on the cover, but c'mon. It's been a while since I found a book that can truly be called genderless (in that it has wide appeal across the board). That's sort of how I approach The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. If the book is strong, the premise believable, and the characters well developed then you're gonna have fans of all sorts, regardless of gender. Boys read Babymouse all the time and girls dig Diary of a Wimpy Kid. "Oh, boys won't read anything with a pink cover." "Oh, girls won't pick up a book unless there's some romance in it." Phooey. You see these stereotypes referred to all the time. By which I mean, the novel that perfectly balances out the stereotypical vision of what boys like in a book versus what stereotypical girls like in a book. ![]() Let us now sit back and consider what the ultimate boy/girl middle grade novel would contain. ![]() ![]() They instead lashed out in whatever ways they could to get back at the Legion. I promise I’m not brown-nosing Saturn Girl but you rock! None of the members of the soon to be Justice League were stable enough and were not accepted. It was thanks to my power of recapping the story that I learned that charter member and all around amazing Saturn Girl was not only evaluating their control over their powers with the rest of the Legion but was also scanning their minds to find if they were mentally well enough to join. I remember being surprised most of all when I learned that Absorbancy Boy didn’t make the cut with his power to absorb other powers for a limited amount of time. Weblike hair, radiation powers, weather powers, and even an unbreakable skeleton. The members of the Justice League do all have unique abilities. To be in the Legion, you are required to have a unique ability that no one else has on the team (that’s more of a guideline than a rule now). ![]() They, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut. As my powers stated before, the Justice League was made up of members who auditioned for the chance to be Legionnaires as I am now. ![]() ![]() ![]() That novel will have be in the form of fan-fiction because the fourth volume, published in 1990, was instead titled, Rabbit at Rest. This book delivered an addictive dose of fervid family drama, and a decade later I was just about dizzy with impatience for an anticipated Rabbit is Retired follow-up. Updike's narrative seemed to pick up speed once he got over Rabbit's midlife crest and began cruising downhill. A third installment, Rabbit is Rich, followed in 1981, winning the pulitzer prize. The sequel, titled Rabbit Redux, was quite popular and well-reviewed. In 1971, he turned his attention back to Rabbit Angstrom, by now in his thirties and sowing stale midwestern oats. His next two published novels, The Centaur (1963), and Of the Farm (1965) were acknowledged in polite terms by reviewers but ignored by the reading public. The story of Rabbit Angstrom, a hapless basketball jock adjusting to married life, earned extensive praise and elevated Updike to the first rank of American writers. ![]() Rabbit Run, John Updike's second novel, was published in 1960. ![]() ![]() ![]() For as Nicholas gets closer to his quarry, he'll find his carefully laid plans jeopardized at every turn by a bold woman daring to strike out on her own. Yet when he divulges the identity of her assailant to Nell, he makes the biggest mistake of his life. Enigmatic, with a shadowy past and more secrets than Nell could ever imagine, Tanek knows far more about the attack than he is willing to admit. And Nicholas Tanek, a mysterious stranger who compels both fear and fascination, gives her a reason to go on living: revenge - at any price. Rehabilitation gives her a strong, lithe body. Delicate surgery gives her an exquisitely beautiful face. ![]() Though badly hurt, Nell emerges from the nightmare a woman transformed. and in the space of a heartbeat, Nell's life, her dreams, her future are shattered by a spray of bullets and the razor edge of a blade. Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happens. NOVEL: From the publisher: "Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust - or murderous passions. ![]() New York: Bantam Books, 1996.Ī: Buy the book in hardcover or paperback. ![]() ![]() Youth: And though I shall omit, for brevity's sake, a thousand little accidents In this history, the hero himself, who gave us the whole transactions of his I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here set down Īnd what I cou'd not be witness of, I receiv'd from the mouth of the chief actor ![]() Render it diverting, without the addition of invention. Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feign'd hero, whose life andįortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure nor in relating the truth,ĭesign to adorn it with any accidents, but such as arrived in earnest to him:Īnd it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits,Īnd natural intrigues there being enough of reality to support it, and to I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this royal ![]() Oroonoko: or The History of the Royal Slave ![]() ![]() ![]() "Death-she comes to me on an Easton fog," J.P. He stared his chief editor down and did not speak. Zach stopped in J.P.'s doorway and leaned against the frame. sat on the floor of his office, piles of manuscripts stacked about him like a paper Stonehenge in miniature. But today he was eager to earn his epithet.Īs he knew he would, Zach found John-Paul Bonner, the chief managing editor of Royal House Publishing, still hard at work even after hours. ![]() Zach had no love of his nickname or the editor who'd coined it. ![]() Zach Easton knew that in the offices of Royal House Publishing, he was known as the London Fog, the disparaging nickname coined by a fellow editor who disapproved of Zach's dour demeanor. In reality London fog was London smog, and at the height of the Industrial Revolution it had killed thousands, choking the city with its poisonous hands. There was no such thing as London fog-never had been. ![]() ![]() Here you will find all the famous Lynn Kurland quotes. 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