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TRAC: April 2015
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Monday, 13 April 2015. Tribute to Terry Pratchett. Walk into nearly any bookstore or library at the moment and you will see a curated collection of Terry Pratchett's prodigious literary output. If you've never read a Terry Pratchett novel, there is no better time to begin; and if you don't trust me, then check out the testimonials from all of these well-known writers. Who have been influenced and entertained by his work. Although he is best-known for his Discworld.
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TRAC: The Door That Led to Where
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Wednesday, 6 May 2015. The Door That Led to Where. This is a book which deals in history, time-travel, murder, intrigue and missing persons. It is also a book about identity – the importance of knowing who you are and where you come from. Most of all, it is a book about the importance of work – and being given the chance to do something with your life. A door is not the freshest symbolic device, but Sally Gardner makes good use of it. She is a writer with a ric...
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TRAC: October 2014
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Friday, 31 October 2014. Most of us have a reading comfort zone - and for me, the horror genre is definitely at the margins. I simply do not thrill to the sensation of being scared. I do not dwell on death; I do not desire a good haunting. It was a challenge, then, to read a long list of horror novels in October; hopefully, like any decent ghost, I've risen to it. By Michelle Paver, is a horrifically effective ghost story because it plays on such very common fears:...
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TRAC: August 2015
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Friday, 14 August 2015. LGBT themes in contemporary YA. I recently reread that classic YA novel The Catcher in the Rye. One of my own adolescent favourites - for the first time since the 1980s. According to The Guardian. My intention is neither to prove or disprove Holden's possible homosexuality - although this blog post. One of the reasons that Holden's discomfort with "perverty" behavior so jarred is that I read The Catcher in the Rye. The protagonist's father h...
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TRAC: Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You. 15 year-old Darren Jacobs is grappling with:. 1) his parents' recent divorce. 2) his father's coming out as gay. 3) his body image. 4) his sexual feelings. 5) his confused emotions about at least 2 girls. 6) the way that his parents suddenly seem like different people. 7) the way that his parents have lives that don't necessarily have him at the center. Just because J.K. Rowling wro...I gre...
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TRAC: June 2015
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You. 15 year-old Darren Jacobs is grappling with:. 1) his parents' recent divorce. 2) his father's coming out as gay. 3) his body image. 4) his sexual feelings. 5) his confused emotions about at least 2 girls. 6) the way that his parents suddenly seem like different people. 7) the way that his parents have lives that don't necessarily have him at the center. Just because J.K. Rowling wro...When ...
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TRAC: May 2015
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Wednesday, 6 May 2015. The Door That Led to Where. This is a book which deals in history, time-travel, murder, intrigue and missing persons. It is also a book about identity – the importance of knowing who you are and where you come from. Most of all, it is a book about the importance of work – and being given the chance to do something with your life. A door is not the freshest symbolic device, but Sally Gardner makes good use of it. She is a writer with a ric...
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TRAC: February 2015
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. It's not easy to write a good romance novel. Hats off, then, to Daniel Handler - who did his level best to subvert romantic c lichés. In his YA novel Why We Broke Up. Never mind the happy ending; Handler dispenses with that notion from the very title of the book. He starts with the aftermath of a break-up of a couple of unlikely love birds, and then works his way back to the less than auspicious beginning of their relationship. Any passio...
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TRAC: November 2014
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Tuesday, 11 November 2014. This year's Remembrance Day commemoration has focused on the 100th year anniversary of the advent of World War I - represented, so poignantly, in the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. Currently seen at the Tower of London. November 11 marks the day that the last of 888,246 ceramic poppies - each representing a British or colonial death in the "War to End All Wars". Is laid to rest. Labels: All Quiet on the Western Front. Am I Normal Yet?
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TRAC: Reading Aloud
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Teen Reading Action Campaign BOOK blog. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. When I was in graduate school, working on a M.Ed. in Reading Education, I was exposed to the ideas of Jim Trelease - author of The Read-Aloud Handbook. This week the idea of "reading aloud" has resurfaced as a hot topic and Big Idea. Tony Little, the retiring Head Master of Eton College. Has published a book called An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education. Labels: An Intelligent Persons Guide to Education. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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