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

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*We are Still Tornadoes* by Kun and Mullen, although these kids are older
(just out of High School.)  Here's my review:
https://annettesbookspot.blogspot.com/2016/11/book-review-we-are-still-tornadoes-by.html

And, *Eleanor and Park* and *Fangirl* by Rainbow Rowell.


Annette Mills

School Librarian

Triad High School

703 E. Highway 40

Troy, IL 62294

annette.mills at tcusd2.org

(618)667-5409x7120

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> "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)
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> 1/12/2016
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