<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is a memoir for middle school - <u>Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey</u> by Magdalena and Nathaniel Newman. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Normal-One-Kids-Extraordinary-Journey/dp/1328631834">https://www.amazon.com/Normal-One-Kids-Extraordinary-Journey/dp/1328631834</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Perhaps you can grab them with reading the nonfiction book along side of rereading Wonder. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> "Nathaniel and his mother, Magda, tell the story of his growing up with the same craniofacial syndrome as the boy from </span><span class="gmail-a-text-italic" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:italic">Wonder</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">—from facing sixty-seven surgeries before the age of fifteen, to making friends, moving across the country, and persevering through hardships. How they tackle extraordinary circumstances with love and resilience is a true testament to Nathaniel and Magda’s extraordinary family, and to families everywhere who quietly but courageously persist."</span><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:24 PM Mrs. Hamernick via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Hi all,<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">We are doing One District, One Book this year. My school has never done OSOB, so this is all new. The book we are doing as a District is Wonder. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I am in a 6-8 Jr High....and I need to build excitement for this book.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">It's a great book, but many of our students have read it in the past as classroom read alouds or on their own, and have seen the movie, or feel like they are too old for it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I am making a quick 3-4 min movie of myself introducing it to them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">What can I say to help them see this through a different lens, and get into reading it, even though they may have already...or seen the movie (which to them is the same as the book)?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Got any great ideas? Any great one-liners?</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Thanks for your help!</div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font color="800080"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica">Sincerely, <br>Amy Hamernick<br>Media Specialist</font></font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium">Apple Teacher</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma">Century Jr. High</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000ff">@AhamernickCJH</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000ff">#CenturyWildcats</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><img width="94" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zSbuy-rNX5QlPeTH5rtDbt_ARDfVaJEBEuSG9e4FAKcrwO3RQlwZy7JwdQz2x8u1nNyztzsgI"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Helvetica"><font color="800080" style="color:rgb(128,0,128)"><br></font></font></font><div align="center"><font color="800080" size="3"><font face="Helvetica"></font><span lang="en-US">"If we always do what we've always done,<br>we will get what we've always got.</span></font><font color="800080" size="3">"<br><span lang="en-US">~Adam Urbanski~<br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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