[ISLMA-Share] "We Are All Made of Molecules" readalikes

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"We Are All Made of Molecules” is the most popular book at my school (in 7th/8th grade, anyway). It is universally beloved. At least once a week a kid tells me that it is the first book they have ever liked. (Seriously.) So they constantly ask me for readalikes…and I just can’t come up with anything quite like it.

Here’s what kids like about it:
- Mix of funny and serious (funny is the really important thing, I think)
- Deals with “real stuff” (GLBTQ, social media, family/friendship, school, bullying) but not in a heavy-handed way
- Two narrators (boy and girl)

Any ideas? FWIW, the kids who are so inclined have already read everything by Jordan Sonnenblick :)

Feel free to send off-list: acrowley at northbrook28.net<mailto:acrowley at northbrook28.net>

Amanda Crowley
Library Media Specialist
Northbrook Junior High School
acrowley at northbrook28.net<mailto:acrowley at northbrook28.net>
(847) 504-3540

"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
― Madeleine L’Engle, from her Newbery Award acceptance speech for A Wrinkle in Time (1963)






1/12/2016
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