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Fiction Book of the Week:
Lexile: 925-1185
Horror, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Sports
Summary: Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are playing baseball near the towns meatpacking plant when the zombie apocalypse begins. The feed the cows are eating is toxic and turning the cattle into flesh eating zombies. The boys become zombie investigators with their baseball bats to uncover the sinister corporate plan to sell tainted zombie meat across the country.
Why you should read this? "Much of the story delving into issues often overlooked in youth fiction: the capricious treatment of immigrant workers, the absence of options for the poor, and the questionable record of the USDA. Simultaneously smart, funny, and icky, this book asks a tough question: Is it worth looking the other way in order to save yourself" from Booklist- AND it is a baseball zombie story!
Non Fiction Book of the Week:
Lexile: 925-1185
Biography, Nonfiction
In 1917 at Yale, Private Robert Conroy informally adopeted the stub tailed terrior who would later become a war hero. Conroy ends up smuggling the dog onboard when he ships of to France for the Great War and teaches him how to salute, which when Conroy gets caught with the dog saves the dogs life. Stubby becomes the troops mascot (like Moose!) Stubby goes on to be more than a mascot but an actual hero.
Why you should read this? "Bausum uses Stubby as a conduit to talk about WWI warfare in general, and indeed the dog does suffer injury, live through horror and fear, and return home a decorated hero (who meets no fewer than two presidents). The speedy story is surrounded by evocative period photos, including plenty of the goofy-faced Stubby, and leads up to his later careers as a vaudeville star and a football mascot, and his eventual taxidermied inclusion in the Smithsonian. A triumph on three fronts: educational, emotional, and inspirational. For older teens, suggest Bausman’s adult title, Sergeant Stubby. Grades 4-7." from Booklist.
Graphic Novel of the Week
IN Real LIfe by COry Doctorow and Jen Wang
Lexile: 925-1185
Adventure, Science Fiction, Graphic Novel, Tech, Gaming
http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=40899
http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=40899
Summary: Cory Doctorow is a great author that incorporates tech, hacking, and teen issues. In this book, gaming is a good thing for the main character, Anda who enjoys playing the massive multiplayer games. Everything is good until Anda's avatr befriends a gold miner in China. Then it all turns wrong and is no longer a game.
Why you should read this? What is a gold miner? Massive multiplayer games? Learn about the world of gaming. It also deals with gender and ethnicity issues in the gaming world at times a little heavy handed but interesting all the same.
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