[CALIBK12] title suggestions

[MFischer]

Hi to those of you still out there J

I'm looking for suggestions for titles for a new class we have next year in our middle schools. These are being called Intervention classes, and will include kids in the bottom 30% of the grade. The group I am working with are 7th graders and the teachers and I are going to do book projects with them.

These are kids who probably seldom if ever read for fun, are reading 1 or more levels below grade level, and our objective is to "catch" them with some surefire titles that they will enjoy reading, talking about with a small group, and doing some sort of a culminating project on (we're thinking about doing wikis but have MANY details to work out there!!)

We need 5-7 titles that kids will choose from and form small groups reading the same title. Each student will read 3 during the school year. I have the beginnings of a list that we are considering but know there are lots of things I'm not thinking of right now. I'd love to know what you would choose for a project like this-it's always exciting to see what our collective brain comes up with!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you have! And happy summer!!!

Mary Helen

Mary Helen Fischer
District Librarian
Buckeye Union School District
Shingle Springs CA 95682

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