Transcript Walking the Line: Young Adult Literature in the Middle School

Walking the Line 2:
Young Adult Literature
in the Middle School
Candi Pierce Garry
Teacher Librarian
Wilson Middle School
Hamilton City School District
About the Handouts…
• Walking the Line Booklist
• PowerPoint Slides
• Recommended SSR Booklist
My Favorite Resouces
for Young Adult
Selection and Review
• Amazon.com and/or Barnesandnoble.com
• OELMA Listserv!
• My own gut feeling
Students in Middle School
• Grades 5 – 8, ages 10 - 15
• Wide range of social/emotional/physical/
academic development
• Wide range of interests and ability
• Enjoy books with high school characters
• Girls, especially, tend to enjoy “issue”
books
Young Adult Literature
• Targeted toward teenagers
• Most characters are high school age
• Many are issue novels: teen pregnancy,
drug use, homosexuality, dating violence,
abuse, rebellion, etc.
• Profanity is common.
So Why YA in Middle School?
• High appeal to students – they ask for them
by title!
• Students relate to the books
• Many have very positive, very hopeful
messages that speak directly to their lives
• From a formerly nonreader student:
“This book changed my life.”
Potential Controversial Topics
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Profanity
Sexual Content
Teen Pregnancy/Teen Parenting
Homosexuality
Domestic Violence
Other Types of Violence
Suicide
Drug Use
Rebellion
Mature Concepts
Profanity
• Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Nighttime
• Blood and Chocolate
• Fallen Angels
• Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
• Side Effects
Sexual Content
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Repossessed
Forever in Blue
What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
Speak
Forever
Cupcake
Teen Pregnancy/Teen Parenting
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Imani All Mine
The First Part Last
November Blues
Gingerbread
Hanging on to Max
Too Soon for Jeff
Detour for Emmy
Homosexuality
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Geography Club
Annie on My Mind
Boy Meets Boy
Crush
Alice on the Outside
one of those hideous books where the
mother dies
• The Bermudez Triangle
Domestic Violence
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Baby Help
Breathing Underwater
Things Change
Faultline
Hidden Roots
The Color Purple
Other Types of Violence
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End Game
Nineteen Minutes
Copper Sun
Party Girl
Fade to Black
Splintering
Suicide
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The Death of Jayson Porter
13 Reasons Why
Aimee: A Novel
The Pact: A Love Story
The Hemingway Effect
High Heat
About David
Drug Use
• Bottled Up
• Fat Kid Rules the World
• Gym Candy
Rebellion
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Harmless
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
Godless
Rash
Bar Code Tattoo
Mature Concepts
• Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the
Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
• The Kite Runner
• Catalyst
• America
• My Sister’s Keeper
Thank you for coming!
Candi Pierce Garry, NBCT
[email protected]