[ISLMA-Share] Alternative to To Kill a Mockingbird

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What about Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom:

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315827/turning-15-on-the-road-to-freedom-by-lynda-blackmon-lowery-illustrated-by-pj-loughran/9780803741232/

It is also on this years Caudill list.


Karyn

Karyn Nadler, MLIS
Library Media Specialist
Robert Crown School
Wauconda, IL 60084

Phone (847) 526-7100
Fax (847) 487-3596

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I think the March graphic novel series (told in 3 books) is excellent and
> an amazing piece.  You could just do the first one, but to get the whole
> scope of past and present all 3 might be best.  Also counts an non-fiction!
>
>
> Mariela Siegert
> School Librarian
> Westfield Middle School
> marris116 at gmail.com
> @marris116
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> The 8th grade reading teachers have traditionally taught *To Kill a
>> Mockingbird* as a unit in a context of civil rights and race relations -
>> past and present. One of the reading teachers would like to explore an
>> alternative to the novel— one that would not be told from a white male’s
>> perspective. Tall order, but definitely a valid point. I thought if anyone
>> had a brilliant idea, it would be from this group! Thank you for your
>> thoughts.
>>
>> Daphna Neirick
>> Library Information Specialist
>> Wilmette Junior High School
>> neirickd at wilmette39.org
>>
>>
>>
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