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=**Novels** =

by Paulo Coelho

 * [[image:2coolforschool/Alchemist.jpg width="175" height="175" align="left"]] || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS52_GZhNGszwpRNVU98WsBIntpidQAZkP9KF-KMH0MbUGoKf3u width="151" height="195"]] ||

**Genre:** Inspirational Fable **Lexile level:** 910L

**Description of book:** The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures.

**Theme:** Religion, Beliefs **Rationale and connections:** Connections to Geography, Old World History

**Media resources:** [] [|The Alchemist - Graphic Novel]

by Cornelia Funke
**Genre:** Fantasy
 * [[image:2coolforschool/Inkheart.jpg width="167" height="275" align="left"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpdkg61V4GWxe87ChwyLwGlNHgVl3fAtaIMrogyxXnmd7vWBhiwA]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** 780L

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** Meggie's father Mo has an interesting talent: when he reads aloud, things, and sometimes people, come out of their stories and into the real world! But now the evil Capricorn wants to use Mo's talents to bring himself great wealth and power.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Importance of Family, Self-Discovery

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** To inspire reading: A series with female lead

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources:** [|2008 Feature Film]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">// Mare's War //
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">by Tanita S. Davis <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Road Trip, Historical Fiction
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:2coolforschool/MaresWar.jpg width="163" height="250"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgttSw-lVLkl0mkWcJtjZtYCwzb5Ii6s0Rn4waJxXC5jUDcRP8]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** 830L

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description of book:** Two teenage girls are taken on a road trip from California to Alabama with their grandmother. She tells them about her time in the Women's Army Corps in Europe during WWII.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Transformation

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** WWII from an African-American woman's point of view; recognizing the storied lives of our elders

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources:**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">// **Words in the Dust** // <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by Trent Reedy <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Multicultural Coming of Age Novel.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:2coolforschool/Words_in_the_dust_new width="240" height="240"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_iieThp4Niavym6MxZVCuhDcGudXSamu0UDB7vHWKtrYvwcWfTQ]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** 670

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** Born with a cleft lip, Zulaikha struggles to feel worth in a society that values women by their marriage prospects: “What bride-price would Baba get for me? Maybe one Afghani?” Then, by chance, Zulaikha meets Meena, a former professor, who begins to teach her to read and write just as American soldiers arrive, bringing the chance for both more education and surgery to correct Zulaikha’s birth defect.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Discrimination, religious differences, treatment of women in different cultures.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** This is a very timely subject. This novel provides the opportunity for students to see what life is like in Afghanistan and provide them with a different view of a culture that is readily mispronounced in America.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources: [|Trent Reedy's website]**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">by Mitali Perkins
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Multicultural Coming of Age Novel <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile Level: 680**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[[image:2coolforschool/Bamboo_People width="153" height="190"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUqLdVjziN_dwTR87Erxd5ysLjUFAh3J3IkhAXw3fPtUogaaJgiw width="164" height="187"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** When 15-year-old Chiko is pressed into military service by the Burmese government, he finds himself involved in an ongoing war with the Karenni people, one of the many ethnic minorities in modern Burma. A scholar, not a soldier, Chiko soon gets wounded and finds himself at the mercy of Tu Reh, an angry Karenni boy only slightly older than he is. Will these two teens, who should be natural enemies, find a way to friendship?

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme: Prejudice** and racism

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** The novel is narrated by two young men who are 15 and 16 years old respectively. Their involvement in the Burmese conflict presents the human side of war and through their experiences, the reader is able to witness the struggle brought on difference.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Social studies/geography:** This novel could be taught along with a geography unit covering Burma as well as with a social studies unit on conflict.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources:[|Mitali Perkins official page]**

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Plays =

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**//Antigone//** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by Sophocles <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile Level:** 1570

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Classical Greek Drama, Play

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** the value of laws

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Description:** Antigone, a young girl and daughter of the banished King of Thebes, Oedipus, attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Creon, her uncle and ruler of Thebes, denies this request. Antigone believes this law is unjust, immoral, and against the laws of the gods and buries her brother herself. Antigone is caught and her imprisonment leads to her suicide, which leads Haemon, her lover and Creon’s son, to the taking his life.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale:** This text challenges young readers to consider the role of our laws and who they serve. Antigone is also close in age to our students and her decision to take her life for what she believes is true is an important topic to have with teenagers. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Media Resources:

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**//A Raisin in the Sun//** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by Lorraine Hansberry <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **Lexile Level:** Not available
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:http://bks3.books.google.com/books?id=y5UlxfmNjvAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl caption="Front Cover" link="http://books.google.com/books?id=y5UlxfmNjvAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxAzVvQljnofWSTOp0UlINwT4RS1iAsSkDSsH6JTVarub5BsjsgQ]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Modern American Play

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Equality, and the impact of race in acquiring the "American Dream"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** This drama explores how the segregation in Chicago during the 1950s impact a black family’s desire to acquire the American dream. Their race prevents them from from a low-income area to a middle-class, white suburb. The family is divided on what to do with a large sum of money and whether to move into a white neighborhood that does want them. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale:** A wonderful text to explore how generations and gender impact perceptions. This humorous and heartfelt text provides students with great insight of what it was like to be African American in the US during the 1950s.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media Resources: [|A Raisin in the Sun movie]**

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Poems =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">by Rhina P. Espaillat
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Genre:** Bilingual Poetry; Couplets; Modern American Poetry
 * [[image:2coolforschool/inkpenhand.jpg width="180" height="132"]] || [[image:2coolforschool/rhina.jpg width="85" height="132"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Theme:** Family, Social Commentary, Home Life, Relationships <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Description: ** This poem is written mainly in English, with intermittent Spanish phrases. It explores how bilingualism reflects the dual cultures, and how the implications of it affect family dynamics and relationships. It is written so there is no need to speak Spanish to understand the meaning of the poem.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Rationale: ** The poem is fairly simple, as it is written in couplets. It is also short, ending at 18 lines. However, it explores complex themes as it exemplifies the beauty and challenges of multiculturalism. This poem will allow younger readers to delve into topics of great import without being daunted by overly-complicated text or unfamiliar poetic technique. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Media Resources: ** <span class="text" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">[|Click Here] to read the poem

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Short Stories =

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">// **The Body** // <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by Stephen King <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **Genre:** Coming of Age, Short Story
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [[image:2coolforschool/The_body width="180" height="182"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [[image:https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShoMRMEhnUslrJTPqpXzvns2vc9QIuumHxDxP-ZfvurLH5TimRWw width="160" height="176"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** Unavailable

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** In 1960s America, four young boys go on a journey to search for the body of a boy killed by a train. As they travel, they discover how cruel the world can be, but also how wondrous.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Coming of Age

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** For students to grow into themselves, it is helpful to see how others have done it before. King does a fantastic job of giving words to the struggles of youth.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources: [|Stand By Me]**

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//**The Umbrella Man and Other Stories**// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> by Roald Dahl <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Fiction, Short Story
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141302712.jpg width="137" height="182" caption="Umbrella Man and Other Stories, The"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTraT1izJt169rOLSHPH0Px8paT2AkvDAC0PoAiUrQ6n7rW-xm7rA width="138" height="187"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** 860

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** Thirteen stories, selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult writings.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Varied

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** This collection is perfect for teen sensibilities. These poisonous gems reflect a British black humor sniping at greedy, pretentious folk. The language is precise, without an extraneous adjective; "The Landlady" is indeed "terribly nice" and Lady Turton of "Neck" prances and snorts like a barely restrained high-strung filly. Teachers looking for examples of irony need look no further than "Parson's Pleasure," in which an overeager antique collector gets exactly what he asks for. Feminists may be a bit offended; Dahl's antipathy for the female sex is rather evident throughout the stories. Wife and family are often an encumbrance in his world. "Royal Jelly" stars a father who is overinvolved in the caring for and feeding of his new offspring; it is a delicious morsel to serve to grown up "Goosebumps" fans. This baker's dozen is a treat for all YA collections. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media Resources:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Youtube: Man from the South]

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Informational Texts =

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**//Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions About The Israeli Palestinian Conflict//**
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">by Mitch Frank <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Genre:** Informational Text

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Lexile level:** 1130

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Description of book:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Grade 6-9. A real understanding of the complex, emotional conflict between Israel and Palestine is hard to come by, and this book — sprinkled with photos, maps, a timeline, and a glossary — offers clear and balanced explanations. Frank discusses the land in question, the history of both groups of people, the spread of terrorism, and an exploration of why peace is so hard to reach in a straightforward question-and-answer format. With their burning desire for worldly knowledge, preteens are perfectly primed to tackle the engaging experience of nonfiction reading. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rationale and connections:** This book is written in simple, straightforward language, making no assumptions about any prior knowledge. It begins with a concise political history of the Jewish and Arab people living in this part of the world, and reports feelings on both sides impartially. The author untangles the complexity of this issue by organizing his material effectively. His overall tactic is to use questions as section headings, so that the entire book is a kind of FAQ. Frank includes a helpful glossary and a two-page bibliography of adult books and newspaper and magazine articles. The black-and-white photos and simple maps are few but significant. Readers are encouraged to educate themselves on such important world affairs as this, and lays the groundwork for engaging in informed discussion of the topic. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Media resources:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">by Shari Graydon

 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:2coolforschool/b.jpg width="115" height="188"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPLe2-Xg16ZNSjCS9YPUF7vn2YhqUs6FWtkUgoMxiTmnlHv1Hsig width="191" height="171"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Genre:** Informational Text
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Lexile level:** none available

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Description:** Grade 8-12. Targeted to preteens and teens and reminiscent of Naomi Wolf’s //The Beauty Myth//, this is a critical examination of beauty, and how the media exploits male and female images of beauty to sell products and create unattainable standards. Graydon, a media literacy activist, discusses everything from Miss America and plastic surgery to celebrities and reality TV, using graphics, photos, and comics to appeal to younger readers. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Rationale and connections:** In an upbeat, casual style, this book looks closely at the concept of beauty, never denying the difficulties of resisting current trends as the author exposes the "sneaky strategies" behind media hype. It is engaging for young readers and encourages them to think critically about the way we perceive physical appearance in our culture. It challenges them to look beyond what the media is promoting to make their own connections to the idea of beauty and how it relates to one's own identity.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Media resources:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Essays of E.B. White//
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">by E.B. White <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Genre:** Informational <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**‍** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile Level:** N/A <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**‍** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description of book:** E.B. White's primary trade was the personal essay. In this remarkable collection, White brings together the finest essays of his seventy-year career, grouped into broad themes. This collection contains a mixture of period pieces from his years at the New Yorker magazine, including "Here is New York," and perceptive pieces on everyday events of life, such as "What Do Our Hearts Treasure?" Each essay brings a smart outlook toward life, an incredible ability to describe ordinary events vividly, and the melancholy and sentimental perspective that dominated White's life. This is undoubtedly the finest collection of American essays in the twentieth century. **‍** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Reflective/Current Event
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411CY2YVJNL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg width="180" height="180" align="left" caption="Essays of E.B. White" link="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0072434279/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:**Writer’s craft <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**‍** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources:**

=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Struggling Readers =

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by James Patterson <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Genre: ** Science Fiction

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Lexile level:** 700L

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Description:** A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting SF thriller.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Theme:** Genetic manipulation, biomedical ethics, the love of family and friends

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Rationale and connections:** Introducing a series will inspire kids to read more on their own.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Media resources:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

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=<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Accelerated Readers =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">// **Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice** // <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">by Phillip Hoose <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Lexile Level:** 1000
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aBsGnhp7L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg width="159" height="208"]] || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToYlimVYXpzMnsOwzmlVIyvG2PQS0gQ23jzKXKG2nqSbdgAlAw width="143" height="207"]] ||

====<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Description**: In 1955, Claudette Colvin a 15 year old girl African American girl on a bus in Montgomery Alabama refuses to surrender her seat because of her color. Unlike Rosa Parks, she is shunned by her peers and dismissed by black leaders as an unfit role model. Colvin will not be defeated. A year later, she challenged segregation again and was one of the four plaintiffs in the Browder v. Gayle busing case. ====

====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **Rationale:** This inspiring historical text can be incorporated into any unit on African Americans, segregation laws and the civil rights movement and artists from the period: Nina Simone, Grant Green, Larry Goldings. Awards include the National Book Award, 2009. ====

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **You Tube:** Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Author Phillip Hoose
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