[MOSAIC] Middle school book suggestions?

[STEWART, L]

If you can get a hold of Junior Great Books, they have wonderful
anthologies of short stories.
http://www.greatbooks.org/programs-for-all-ages/junior/jgbseries/middle-
school-series-6-9.html
Sometimes you can pick them up used on Amazon.
LRS


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try Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, NIghtjohn by Gary Paulsen, Don't You

Dare Read This, Mrs. Dumphrey by Margaret Haddix....just to name a few.
 
Is anyone else experiencing a lack of MOSAIC emails today?
 
Leslie
 
 
In a message dated 2/25/2008 11:19:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
sbrisson07 at hotmail.com writes:


Hi  everyone.  I'm in my first year of a masters program for literacy
grades  
5-12. I am currently tutoring a sixth grade girl twice a week to give
her a  
little extra literacy support.  She is just slightly below grade level
in  her 
reading and writing, so a book below her frustration level would
probably  be 
fourth or fifth grade.  I plan on starting a chapter book with her
soon.  
Does anyone have any suggestions?  

Some books that I  was considering were the following (although I'm not 
really sure what the  reading level of these novels is, and I have a
feeling most 
of these are  either too high or too low):  The Indian in the Cupboard
by Lynne 
Reid  Banks, Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe, Frindle by Andrew
Clements, 
Holes  by Louis Sachar, and Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.

Also,  does anyone know of a collection of short stories that would be 
appropriate  for her?  I was thinking that since our sessions only last
about an 
hour  twice a week (and only 15 minutes of that is devoted to oral
reading) it 
might  be easier to tackle short stories rather than a novel.

Thank you so  much.
Shannon  Brisson

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