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February 1, 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2 'Reading Leadership Team'
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Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents
... ... Through Instructional Improvements:
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Recommended Student Book: Recommended by Bob Dick
American Born Chinese
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All Jin Wang wants is to fit in... When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl... Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. But the Monkey King doesn’t want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god... Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he’s ruining his cousin Danny’s life. Danny’s a basketball player, a popular kid at school, but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit, and every year Danny has to transfer to a new school to escape the shame. This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse... These three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist, in a modern fable that is hilarious, poignant, and action-packed. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax - and confirms what a growing number of readers already know: Gene Yang is a major talent. Read more about this book at Barnes and Noble |
Recommended by Bob Dick
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier's is perhaps as influential
and groundbreaking a career as any in Hollywood history. He
came to New York from his boyhood home in the Bahamas and,
after a rocky start, went on to star in such memorable
classics as Blackboard Jungle, A Raisin in the Sun,
Lillies of the Field (for which he won the Best Actor
Oscar, the first ever awarded to an African American man),
and To Sir, with Love, among dozens of others. In his
spiritual memoir, The Measure of a Man, Poitier looks
back at his pioneering life and career and the lessons
learned along the way.
Read more about this book at
Barnes and Noble |
