Friday: Literature Circle Book Preview and Preferences

Today you will be previewing Quarter B literature circle reads.  Refer to your preference list you were given and watch all of the book trailers/read the book summaries before listing your preferences on the sheet of paper.  Please make sure your headphones are on and properly plugged into your computer.  You will be reading and discussing this title with Reading 9-10 students across all sections of the day through an online forum (Edmodo) during the first four weeks of quarter B (Discussions will be once/week). There will be an AR test at the conclusion of the unit.  You cannot choose a title you have already taken an AR test on during your educational career thus far.

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXCSwsBlWZo

Al Capone Does My Shirts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aRdCXYy5YM

Aquamarine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktGTCzqEY6Q

Bar Code Tattoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgSRcqs4PxE

Before We Were Free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q75VyWKQx5A

BFG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8tzV3EPbE

Big Wave  

Kino lives on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan. His friend, Jiya, lives in a fishing village below. Everyone, including Kino and Jiya, has heard of the big wave. No one suspects it will wipe out the whole village and Jiya's family, too. As Jiya struggles to overcome his sorrow, he understands it is in the presence of danger that one learns to be brave, and to appreciate how wonderful life can be. The famous story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave destruction of his family and village.

Bleachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBs6uundEnw

Cage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_MsYczjEMQ

California Diaries: Sunny (overview from www.amazon.com)
Major stress at home with mom's illness. Bug fight with the best friend. Where can a girl go to find peace of mind? This new series has a first-person, diary format that draws readers into an intimate look at preteen life in the 1990s. 

China Garden (overview taken from www.bn.com)

 When Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker. Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned China Garden. Then her mother reveals that their own past is tragically linked to the estate. But when Clare discovers that Ravensmere is in grave danger, will she risk her future-and Mark's-to save it?

Crushed (overview taken from www.bn.com)

 Audrey and her two best friends have just transferred to Jemison High from their tiny private school. They're a nerdy little trio, so everyone is shocked when the handsome new guy, Wickham Hill, asks Audrey out. Audrey is so smitten that she doesn't pay much attention to The Yellow Paper, a vicious underground school newspaper...until it threatens to tell a tale that could change everything.

Driver's Ed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNS99ggfrY

Fever 1793  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_oI2NaISg

Flight to Freedom (overview taken from www.bn.com)

  Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.

Flush  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2ByvoGr7c

For One More Day (TV Movie Trailer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZlCZyGBIk

Forged by Fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPGqnZRMpEQ

Frankenstein  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isE15Ktqyt0

Freak the Mighty  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM94fsJZ80Y

Girl Who Was Supposed to Die  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74wXCpFxtc

Hatchet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwuIto3zPSU

Holes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekC4JJrGjmE

Hope Was Here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKyROyZZWk

Human .4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHbkcYMenk

I Survived: The Attacks on September 11, 2001  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxrpw18KY3g 

Island of the Blue Dolphins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3cOSBCmoJY 

Journey to the Center of the Earth(movie version trailer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx2wLyagk4 

Jungle of Bones  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NT6dskd6Cc

Kit's Wilderness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMivl26e0A

Lord of the Flies  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWqIIyoODs

Nanny Diaries  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjR-7qbiOU

Night  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAXkt8BZq4

Nineteen Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVZQvy0vN8

Peak  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx6CDTNhVPo

Red Cell  (summary) Will Conlan is an unconventional thinker. After winning a baseball game with an innovative toss of a rosin bag, he catches the interest of a chief operative of the Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell. Employing the creative problem solving of philosophers, futurists, and Hollywood movie writers, this intelligence unit is seeking any original ideas about anticipating terrorist plots.  As a recent surge of terrorist activity undermines these fresh insights, the operative banks on the notion that Will’s youthful imagination, unclouded by the premise of “it can’t be done,” may provide the key insight they need and seeks to secretly exploit Will’s unhindered “out of the box” thinking.  Unaware of the magnitude of danger surrounding him, Will uncovers something he wasn’t supposed to discover—a connection between a television advertisement and a master terrorist plot. Narrowly surviving, he alone foils a bombing at Wrigley Field. Uncertain about the knowledge he now holds, he has to figure out the terrorists’ next target. Will just doesn’t realize…it’s him.

Room  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8rj2otXNfM

Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII 

 While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day. (annotation from www.bn.com) 

Rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3U5eNXIyQ

Rules of the Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnOOY-7DTU

Skin I'm In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5nhcIhH6oc

Silent to the Bone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLZa--pw4w

Slam!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xIQ17cz-U

Speak (movie trailer version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpPkHZ66aI

Stargirl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQ6VGYWUbA

Stick and Whittle (overview taken from www.bn.com)

Stick is a Civil War veteran, down on his luck and searching for his long lost sweetheart. Whittle is an orphan on the lam, looking to repay the world a favor he claims to owe. When the two meet up out West, they become partners on a high-stakes adventure that includes a kidnapping, travel by tornado, and a dramatic rescue mission.

Sweetgrass (overview from www.bn.com)

Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to be married like the other girls her age, and she has a young warrior in mind, Eagle-Sun. Her father feels she is too young for marriage, but over a difficult year for their tribe, which include natural disasters, encounters with white settlers, fights with other tribes, and a smallpox epidemic, she proves her courage, intelligence, and maturity. 

Tracker (overview taken from www.bn.com)

For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter.But this year John's grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life.Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and hating his role as hunter.

Trouble with Lemons (overview taken from www.bn.com)

His real name was Tyler McAllister, but he felt like a lemon. He had allergies and nightmares, and was the only unfamous person in his family. But one night he and a friend went swimming at the forbidden quarry, and Tyler found a dead body. Now he's determined to find out who killed the man and why they're now after him.... 

Variant  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r_8LkJTHVc

Watson's Go to Birmingham--1963 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFWc390V9A 

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ETrVYs8lUs

Whirligig  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNHf_kcYNk