Here are a couple of fun books about the prom; one has a female protagonist and the other a male protagonist. As they say getting there is half the fun!
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Prom. 2005.
Ashley didn’t really care when the new math teacher disappears and takes the prom money with him. She wasn’t going to the prom, she has enough things to deal with at home including a very pregnant mother, three exuberant, younger brothers, three prom-crazy aunts, her job at EZ-CHEEZ-E, and last but not least her high-school dropout boyfriend. But Ashley’s best friend Nat has been looking forward to the prom since forever so Ashley gets sucked into salvaging the prom and she might even have to go to the prom herself, but would that be so bad?
Bradley, Alex. 24 girls in 7 days. 2005.
What would you do if the love of your life turns you down when you ask her to the prom? Jack does nothing. But his friends Natalie and Percy place an ad in the online school paper asking “Who will be Jack Grammar’s prom date?” Thus starts 24 dates in seven days. Jack dates every type of girl right up until the prom when he actually has to choose a date. His speed dating techniques will make you laugh, cringe and think “I've been through that”. To find out who Jack ultimately takes to the prom read 24 girls in 7 days.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Girl's Lives Vol. 2
Here are three stories of young girls who overcome obstacles and difficulties in their lives. These girls grow up and become women with character.
Horvath, Polly. The canning season. 2003. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, 2003.
Ratchet and Harper are two young teenage girls who are not related by blood but are family because of their experiences living with Great Aunt Tilly and Great Aunt Penpen. They are Ratchet’s 91-year old great aunts that she is living with for the summer while her mother has more important things to do. Harper comes to the remote Maine house under similar circumstances. While living with the eccentric aunts, they hear outlandish stories, work together and become a family.
Larson, Kirby. Hattie big sky. 2006. Newbery Honor Book, 2007.
Hattie, come to the big skies of Montana in 1918, as a 16-year-old orphan who hasn’t had a home or family in over ten years. She has had love and kindness in a succession of relatives’ homes but more often than not she is a burden and is passed along to the next family in line to care for the orphan. When an uncle dies and leaves her his Montana homestead, she heads to Montana to make a home. Unfortunately, she has to improve the land within a year and times are tough and she has no family to help her or advise her. But, she is not alone, she makes wonderful friends and learns the value of her hard work and sacrifice in trying to make a home for herself in the big skies.
Peck, Richard. The river between us. 2003. Scott O’Dell Award, 2004.
It is the Mississippi River that lies between the North and the South in 1861. For 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt it is the river that brings two young ladies that will forever change her life and that of her family. Delphine, light skinned, and Calinda, dark skinned, are mysterious and speculation abounds about their relationship – are they owner and slave? Tilly’s twin brother Noah is also fascinated with the women but with the war raging and Tilly and Noah’s 16th birthday approaching, Noah runs away to join the Union Army. Noah’s distraught mother is sure he will never return home so she sends Tilly and Delphine to bring him home. This trip and its aftermath changes the Pruitt family forever. Find out how by reading The river between us.
Horvath, Polly. The canning season. 2003. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, 2003.
Ratchet and Harper are two young teenage girls who are not related by blood but are family because of their experiences living with Great Aunt Tilly and Great Aunt Penpen. They are Ratchet’s 91-year old great aunts that she is living with for the summer while her mother has more important things to do. Harper comes to the remote Maine house under similar circumstances. While living with the eccentric aunts, they hear outlandish stories, work together and become a family.
Larson, Kirby. Hattie big sky. 2006. Newbery Honor Book, 2007.
Hattie, come to the big skies of Montana in 1918, as a 16-year-old orphan who hasn’t had a home or family in over ten years. She has had love and kindness in a succession of relatives’ homes but more often than not she is a burden and is passed along to the next family in line to care for the orphan. When an uncle dies and leaves her his Montana homestead, she heads to Montana to make a home. Unfortunately, she has to improve the land within a year and times are tough and she has no family to help her or advise her. But, she is not alone, she makes wonderful friends and learns the value of her hard work and sacrifice in trying to make a home for herself in the big skies.
Peck, Richard. The river between us. 2003. Scott O’Dell Award, 2004.
It is the Mississippi River that lies between the North and the South in 1861. For 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt it is the river that brings two young ladies that will forever change her life and that of her family. Delphine, light skinned, and Calinda, dark skinned, are mysterious and speculation abounds about their relationship – are they owner and slave? Tilly’s twin brother Noah is also fascinated with the women but with the war raging and Tilly and Noah’s 16th birthday approaching, Noah runs away to join the Union Army. Noah’s distraught mother is sure he will never return home so she sends Tilly and Delphine to bring him home. This trip and its aftermath changes the Pruitt family forever. Find out how by reading The river between us.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Girl's Lives Vol. 1
These three stories are about young girls dealing with difficult life experiences. Despite their setbacks, problems and their youth and inexperience, they overcome these obstacles to grow and mature.
Stone, Tanya Lee. A bad boy can be good for a girl. 2007.
What does this title tell you about the story? Bad boys are bad for girls right; that is why they are bad! Or after loving a bad boy does the girl or girls (because this is a bad boy we are talking about) get smart about boys and learn some life lessons that hopefully do not come at too high a price.
Three girls learn more about men, love, sex and life after falling for a bad boy. What he does to them will make you mad and you might think the girls were stupid for falling for him, but when your bad boy comes along you might have the wherewithal and the knowledge to see right through him after reading A bad boy can be good for a girl.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. 1999.
Who is the class scapegoat? Is this student misunderstood, angry, sad, happy, frustrated? Melinda has just started high school but the year is going to be difficult and she knows it. She doesn’t speak. And no one at school will speak to her, not even her friends. She is the pariah of the entire school. She was the one who called the police at the end of the summer party and everyone is mad at her. Her reason for calling the police is unknown because she can’t speak of the experience and because she has no one to tell. Her parents are not talking to each other and her friends have abandoned her. It is only through a sympathetic art teacher and the work she does in his class that she works to find her voice.
Friend, Natasha. Perfect. 2004.
Isabelle and Ashley are 13 year old classmates who have never had anything to do with each other. Isabelle and her family are still reeling from the death of her father two years previously and Isabelle and her mother and sister are in many respects avoiding the grief. Ashley is the prettiest and most popular girl in school. They do have one thing in common, they are both bulimic. And both have been sent to the to the same group therapy sessions where Ashley takes Isabelle under her wing and they have sleepovers where the main activity is binging and purging. Isabelle, though, realizes that she is on a path that will consume her entire life if she doesn’t open up about her pain and anger. Read Perfect to discover that nothing is ever perfect but life is still good.
Stone, Tanya Lee. A bad boy can be good for a girl. 2007.
What does this title tell you about the story? Bad boys are bad for girls right; that is why they are bad! Or after loving a bad boy does the girl or girls (because this is a bad boy we are talking about) get smart about boys and learn some life lessons that hopefully do not come at too high a price.
Three girls learn more about men, love, sex and life after falling for a bad boy. What he does to them will make you mad and you might think the girls were stupid for falling for him, but when your bad boy comes along you might have the wherewithal and the knowledge to see right through him after reading A bad boy can be good for a girl.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. 1999.
Who is the class scapegoat? Is this student misunderstood, angry, sad, happy, frustrated? Melinda has just started high school but the year is going to be difficult and she knows it. She doesn’t speak. And no one at school will speak to her, not even her friends. She is the pariah of the entire school. She was the one who called the police at the end of the summer party and everyone is mad at her. Her reason for calling the police is unknown because she can’t speak of the experience and because she has no one to tell. Her parents are not talking to each other and her friends have abandoned her. It is only through a sympathetic art teacher and the work she does in his class that she works to find her voice.
Friend, Natasha. Perfect. 2004.
Isabelle and Ashley are 13 year old classmates who have never had anything to do with each other. Isabelle and her family are still reeling from the death of her father two years previously and Isabelle and her mother and sister are in many respects avoiding the grief. Ashley is the prettiest and most popular girl in school. They do have one thing in common, they are both bulimic. And both have been sent to the to the same group therapy sessions where Ashley takes Isabelle under her wing and they have sleepovers where the main activity is binging and purging. Isabelle, though, realizes that she is on a path that will consume her entire life if she doesn’t open up about her pain and anger. Read Perfect to discover that nothing is ever perfect but life is still good.
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