I am always on the lookout to find new ways to bring kids into reading. Lately I have started to look at Graphic Novels. I am hoping I can catch another couple of kids wanting to read. I am always looking for some new reads for the students, so please feel free to send some graphic novel ideas through to me.
Meanwhile we are going to start with New Kid by Jerry Craft, about a boy whose family sent him to a prestigious high school. Not only is Jordan one of the few black students, he is really into drawing. The novel has great illustrations and really might help students see schooling from another viewpoint.
The other graphic novel I read was called White Bird. It was a fabulous story about Grandmere when she was a young girl growing up in occupied France. She was hidden by a schoolmate’s family in rural France while hiding from the Nazi. I have to say the book was one of the best I have read. (Yes, I gave it five stars.)
Today, I received the third graphic novel I want to read with the kids. It is called When the Stars are Scattered. It is about growing up in a refugee camp in Somalia. The trials and tribulations of everyday life are shown living in a camp as retold by the main character, Omar.
Elise did send in an interview with Jennifer Coburn and a book review of Murder at the Lemonberry Tea. Jennifer Coburn’s newest book is called The Girls of the Glimmer Factory. It takes place at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. The book highlights the Nazi’s propaganda system and the horrors of the camps.
As someone at the Dunk’s drive thru said to me today. “Have an excellent day!”
