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2 comments:
Wow! Awesome titles. You do know your stuff. I LOVE The Mennyms but have such a hard time describing it to students!
It's not one I'd normally take, but the teacher specifically requested more "mature and challenging" titles in a variety of formats for her 7th & 8th graders - but it's a Catholic school, so I wanted to steer away from some of the edgier teen fiction. I don't visit them enough to know what they're comfortable with. Anyways, on the rare occasions I booktalk Mennyms, I tell the teens "people look at this and say giant dolls, yeah, uh, no thanks. But it's not really about giant dolls that come to life (and yes, that's as creepy as it sounds) it's really about what makes us human and gives us a sense of self"
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