Babysitting basics: caring for kids
Leah Browning
Grades 9 - Up
Short chapters with bold and sparing text, coupled with full-color photographs, tell readers what to expect and how to
handle various situations. Safety, entertaining, and feeding are just a few of the important topics covered, and the
author provides a variety of examples that can be applied for babysitting babies through older children. Tips and
recommendations are also given under the small scenario pieces, "What would you do?" that will effectively make
readers think about potential problems that can arise when adults are away. |
Living through the civil rights movement
Charles George
Grades 9 - Up
This title does an excellent job of chronicling the movement by using primary-source documents. Excerpts from speeches
by government officials, such as Lyndon Baines Johnson, George Wallace, and John F. Kennedy, appear as well as speeches
or statements from Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Stokely Carmichael. In addition, the book includes "voices
from the front lines," essays by John F. Lewis, Diane Nash, and Daisy Bates. It is an interesting concept that works well
for those who need less of an overview of the history and more on the views of those who actually lived the experience. |
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Grades 9 - Up
In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the
Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the
rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny,
and beautifully written, the books reflects the character's art and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native
American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. |
Hip-hop around the world
Ida Walker
Grades 9- Up
In "Hip-Hop Around the World", readers will learn that though the Bronx is the genre's birthplace, its roots were
formed in the music of Jamaica. Readers will discover how the East Coast phenomenon spread all across the country, and
then throughout the world, including Africa, Europe, and Britain. Perhaps more important, readers will learn that
wherever hip-hop develops, it morphs to be- come relevant to that location. It is truly the music of the people. |
