Re: Adbooks

[Susan Baker <bakesus@easystreet.com>]

The website for Adbooks lists previous winners and provides a good list 
of books that are guaranteed to be interesting, even if not all are 
appropriate for middle schoolers.

I just read SOLD.  Anyone else?  Would you recommend it for middle 
school?  It is about a 13 year old, and an easy read, but so brutal and 
terrifying.

Susan

Nancy Vait wrote:
> Thanks for this information, Susie.  You always seem
> to be right in the game!  I've signed up for the
> adbooks list and will mostly see if I can keep up with
> the discussions.  I'm positive I won't get many of the
> books read, but I always appreciate recommendations,
> especially having moved from middle to high school
> alternative.  It's its own special niche.  
>
> Nancy
>
>
> --- shighley@aol.com wrote:
>
>   
> > Adbooks is a discussion group for adolescent
> > literature.  They host 
> > several discussions a year, and are currently in
> > their awards process; 
> >  from the nominees, one book is "voted off" each
> > week until the 
> > finalists remain and people vote FOR a book.  The
> > pleading of cases for 
> > books is amazing.  People can't vote for/against a
> > book unless they've 
> > read the entire thing.  I'm mainly a lurker, because
> > what books I do 
> > get around to reading are more for middle level (I'd
> > say these are more 
> > high school), but it's still fascinating, and I've
> > gotten many good 
> > suggestions.
> >
> > Here's the yahoo group page
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adbooks/
> >
> > and the general webpage
> > http://www.adbooks.org/
> >
> > Susie
> >
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