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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: repost: nonfiction recs anyone?
I just ordered a set of Chew on This by Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation) & Wilson. Subtitle is Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food. It is much more reader-friendly than FFN for middle school. Does focus heavily on McDonalds, so that might be a consideration in purchasing. Have also bought a set of Nickle and Dimed on (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. She researches minimal wage jobs in three sections of the US, posing as a waitress, a CNA, and a WalMart employee. She shows an astonishing look at the economic disparity in our country. Since I teach alternative high school, it's very fitting for our students. Again, I don't know if the content fits middle school -- but it would be worth having a copy or two, in my opinion . . . . Also -- I'd love to get a copy of your final order list. Can you send it to the list?? (or to me??) Nancy Vait --- Sherri Neofotist <sneofotist@anamosa.k12.ia.us> wrote: > On 5/9/07 3:18 PM, "Lori Davis" > <ldavis@scnc.deerfield.k12.mi.us> wrote: > > > Hey, everyone, I'm reposting because I have > received nothing from > > middle-lit in a few days, so I am not certain my > original message ever got > > out. I'm the recipient of some grant money to be > spent on nonfiction > > titles for reluctant readers. I'm looking for > high-interest low level > > nonfiction books in particular. Have culled our > archives and NCTE Orbis > > but would welcome any other suggestions. Thank > you! > > > > Lori > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Archives-> > > > http://interversity.org/lists/middle-lit/archives.html > > > > Not sure how low level they are, but they are > high-interest! > > Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain > Science > by John Fleischman > > Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the > Emmett Till Case > by Chris Crowe > > Sherri > > > --------------------------------------------------- > Thanks to the folks who help keep Interversity > (and Middle-Lit) going: > http://interversity.org/benefactors.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news
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