[aisle] Dystopian book, no violence

Becky Johnson bjohnson at d70schools.org
Wed Feb 12 11:23:37 CST 2020


Agreed - I had a book challenge on that one when it was a Caudill.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:22 AM Mary Clare O'Grady via AISLE <
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> I would be careful about recommending * Life As We Knew It * to an
> "ultra-conservative" student. Although there may not be violence, I recall
> a rather creepy relationship that the protagonist's best friend, a teen
> girl, develops with an older man.
>
> *Memory Boy* by Will Weaver is another title that comes to my mind-- if
> it's ok that the survival angle follows a natural disaster (as in *Life
> As We Knew It*) rather than a governmental situation.
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM Christine Wilson via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> *Life as we Knew It* by Susan Pfeffer? #2 and 3 in the series have some
>> violence, but #1 is more philosophical.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM Timmons, Heather via AISLE <
>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> Hi there..
>>>
>>> I have an ultra conservative student.  Her 8th grade class is ready
>>> Dystopian.  Her parents have requested she read a book in this genre but
>>> with NO violence.  Any ideas?
>>>
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