This graphic novel gives readers a new level a reading. Instead of just reading words on a page they will follow cartoon pictures that help to progress the story and appeal to readers in a different sense. Readers will follow Superhero Girl as she tries to find her place in the world and understand her role as a superhero. As the graphic novel progresses, there is a struggle of identity attached to the main character. The character has to work to deal with her personal life and the life of a superhero. As a teenage girl, she has a lot of issues that come up in her life that she has to handle. Young adults will follow this young girl as she deals with this issues and daily obstacles that teenagers face everyday. This is a great graphic novel because while it is a lighthearted story, it does identify issues that some young adults can identify with and understand.
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Set in Angola, Africa in 1595, Nzingha is a royal princess and also the firstborn. Her father is Ndambi Kiluanji the Ngola of the Mbundu kingdom of Ndongo, which is basically like a king. They are in a war with the Portuguese at this time. Nzingha is so desperate to know her father, she soon does become close with him. They spend more time together and he even lets her go hunting with him which was a dream come true to her. Nzingha has a prophecy that she will be the next ruler but also the first female warrior. This book is written in a diary form, as you keep reading Nzingha goes to Luanda or the place the Portuguese for her father. She discovers what the slave trade is to them and is 'abducted' but it was all fake and all planned by her father. In the epilogue it discusses the rest of Nzingha's life, she marry's and had a son. she eventually after many years and heartache did become Ngola. She never gave up fighting the Portuguese's idea of slavery. This is a very interesting book. The way that is written really gives you an inside look at Nzingha's life. I would recommend this more for girls due to the fact that it is about a princess, I feel as though this story shows how powerful a women can be even in a society run by men. Published: 2000 Scholastic Inc. Price: $1.99 Historical Fiction Haley Burdette This book is about a boy whose name is changed to Taro. He is captured by an older Samurai and has to learn how to be a proper human being (at least in the eye’s of a Samurai). Tauro goes up the ranks from helping the cook in the kitchen, taking care of the Samurai’s horses, being the Samurai’s errand boy all the way to becoming a Samurai himself. As in most stories about characters who go through a "coming of age" journey Tauro does end up becoming a Samurai, which is basically how the story ends. I mainly picked up this book because of the Samurai on the cover, thinking that this book would tell me an exciting and captivating story about Samurai's. This book did not do this. To me, this story is not one that successfully tells the story that it tries to. The story is not interesting, it is comparable a person's mouth after they eat twenty-five saltines in a row. I understand that not every moment in a book is always interesting so I fought through the dry reading in hopes on interesting section. There were none, the story is just constantly dry. I would not recommend that libraries purchase this book and place it on their shelves. Librarians should spend more time researching books about Samurais and find one that children will actually find interesting. Published- 1984 Price- $7.95 Ages- 12 to 16 Reviewer- Andrea Dow
Little House in the Big Woods written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Illustrated by Garth Williams takes place during the time of the 1870’s. The Ingalls family; Caroline, Charles, Mary, Laura and the baby Carrie are a tightknit family who live deep in the Wisconsin woods in a small log house. The story starts of with Laura describing her surrounding, and what life was like at home with her family. The novel is split up into 13 short chapters that inform us, the readers, of the country life, the type of weather, the food they eat, what the house is like, the celebrations they have and of course entertainment that happens in the woods. Throughout the novel, we are also able to understand the hardships and joys that come to the Ingalls family. I think this book is good to read to younger children, but could also be a really suitable as historical fiction story for fourth or fifth graders to read. This book would be fun as a unit lesson plan on historical fiction novels. Students could create their own stories based on their lives, or how they think their lives would be like in the 1870’s. Historical Fiction. Published 1932, HarperCollins, Ages 8-12, $6.99. Reviewer: Deidre Schneider Zusak writes this historical fiction book during World War II, in Nazi Germany. It was carefully and uniquely narrated through the eyes of “death”, or the one who collects your souls when you pass. Liesel Meminger’s journey begins on a train, when she is being transported with her brother to a new safer home in Molching. Her brother however, does not make it and passes along the way. This is where she steals her first book, from a gravedigger. Liesel then goes on to meet her new family the Hubermans. Hans and Rosa both grow to love Liesel like she was one of their own; they both just have different ways of showing it. Things get complicated when a Jew named Max shows up looking for refuge. He is the son of a man who saved Hans’ life, and Hans feels like he must repay the debt. Now the family is all in danger from trying to save his life and keep him alive. As time goes on Liesel learns many new things, and grows into a confident and daring young girl. In the end, it becomes too dangerous for Max to stay, and he leaves to avoid getting the Hubermans caught. Liesel finds a love of books, and steals books from different people and places. By the end of her story the war leaves her alone, with everyone close to her dead. Vanished during a surprise bomb raid, Liesel is the only survivor of her family and friends. She meets up with Max after the war, and together they live on, to tell their tales. Zusak’s distinctive narration gives light to a story that follows a girl trying to survive during Nazi Germany, who has a love of books.
Published: 2005 Company: Knopf Borzoi Books Ages: 13-17 Prices: $8.99 Category: Historical Fiction Natalie Hoeksema Rikki cohen
Jack and Annie are elementary aged children. They go on an adventure to find a text of something that they have to follow. They step out of their magic tree house into civil war time era. Explosions are erupting in the background. Men are screaming in anguish. Jack is really unsure of the situation but Annie jumps right in. She helps out the wounded men. Jack eventually joins in too. They meet the famous civil war nurse Clara Barton. They help out more and end up finding what they needed. Then they go home a little more educated on the civil war. The illustrations definitely add to the visual quality of the book. This book is definitely worthy of a collection. It is also not one of those series books that the reader needs to read the others before it. The reader can just jump right in. Young readers will definitely learn some history and have fun from this adventurous book.
Illustrated by Sal Murdocca Biblio: 2000, Scholastic, Ages 6 - 9 years Reviewer: Kimberly Bowman Format: Chapter book ISBN-13: 978-0679890676 Click here to edit. Andrew is obsessed with getting freckles! Nicky, the boy in front of him had millions of freckles, all over! Andrew ask's Nicky how he got all his freckles, of course the answer is that he was born with them.....but Sharon the girl that giggles at him all the time has a secret recipe on how to get freckles. He pays fifty cents for a recipe of disgusting ingredients that make him sick! He has to stay home the next day and realizes that Sharon has tricked him. Andrew wants to make it look like the recipe worked to fool Sharon but instead of brown marker he uses blue, which makes the whole class laugh at him. His teacher Miss. Kelly rubs off his 'freckles' with a lemon soap her 'secret recipe'. Nicky askes if he could have her secret recipe to get rid of his freckles, of course Miss. Kelly cant take off his freckles though. That doesn't stop Sharon from telling his she has a secret recipe to get rid of freckles though!! This is a hilarious story, it might be for youngsters but it is very entertaining. Published: 1978 Random House Children's Books Grade range: 2-3 Price: $5.99 Haley Burdette by kirby larson, read by kirsten potter 16 year old Hattie Brooks didn’t know what she was signing up for when she left her Aunt and Uncle’s home in Illinois to prove up on her Uncle Chester’s claim. Leaving everything behind, Hattie heads to Montana to live on 300 acres of farm land. Things aren’t perfect in Vida, Montana however. With the first world war underway, people see German spies everywhere. The county counsel of defense makes American citizens with german ancestry’s lives miserable. Hattie’s neighbors and her good friends seem to be the object of the counsels anger at the Germans. Farming on the plains of Montana is not easy. Dust storms, hail and grasshoppers destroy crops, while it rarely rains. To prove up Hattie must set 180 rods of fence and harvest 20 acres of her land. With the german scare and the in climate weather will Hattie be able to prove up? audible.com. $22.95. Ages 11-15 Kelsey Means |
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