Build Your Stack: Choosing Titles for a “Reluctant” Male Teen Reader
…. . . guaranteed. Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos In this gripping memoir, author Jack Gantos relates the story of the time he was hired to…
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Why Students Should Read This Book
I just finished reading—actually listening to Sherman Alexie read—You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir. Not a YA book like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
Making a Deep Connection
…the Sky, a memoir by Farah Ahmedi. Ahmedi experiences unimaginable challenges that many of us in the western world would never encounter. She becomes disabled after stepping on a landmine,…
Mentor Texts for Teaching Narrative Writing: Chapter Books
…centuries-old format of the encyclopedia to convey the accumulated knowledge of her lifetime in a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by…
The Value of Staying Connected through NCTE
…I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai’s memoir. At the time of introducing this book as a formal unit study, my colleague and I discussed why our school community needed to embrace…
Build Your Stack: Girl Power! Sharing the Power, Courage, and Voice of Girls
…Also included is a memoir from Jacqueline Woodson, showing how she struggled with reading but refused to allow this to hold back her gift of writing. Billie Jo and Ha…
Quashing Disability Myths through the Lived Experience of Authors: Three New Middle Grade Books
…are treated as—just people. Rolling Warrior, by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner Judith Heumann narrates her dramatic memoir for middle grades, Rolling Warrior (2021), written with Kristen Joiner. In the…
Build Your Stack: Audacious Stories of Human Spaceflight
…and Laurie Caulkholven This memoir tells the remarkable story of Leland Melvin growing up in Virginia, being drafted by the NFL, and becoming an astronaut. Twice he traveled on the…
Forwarding Literacy in I Am Malala
…year after being shot, Malala Yousafzai published a memoir, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Cowritten with journalist Christina Lamb,…
What Can Comics Do? Tapping Into Empathy and Flexibility
…of any genre—from memoir to Western to science fiction—include the possibility for thinking about characterization and character development, themes, plot development, vocabulary knowledge, engagement with challenging text, thinking about ideas…
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