Archive for the ‘Reading level’ Category
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Kenneth Oppel |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1997 |
A precocious bat and his adventures during a war between the bats and the birds. |
Kind of bleak and inconsistent -- the owls are allowed to kill birds but the bats aren't? But my 8 year old gets out of bed early on weekend mornings to keep on reading. |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Silverwing |
Posted in Animals, Conceptual: 8 and up, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Anne McCaffrey |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, dragons |
| Year of publication: | 1979 |
Menolly's friend Piemur (a boy) comes of age (confronts bullying and anti-intellectualism). |
Not as compelling as the previous two in the series, and Dragonsinger, and beware the love scene at around page 238. |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Dragondrums |
Posted in Conceptual: age 12 and up, Dealing with bullies, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fiction, Gifted, Music, Reading level: age 12 and up, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Anne McCaffrey |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, dragons |
| Year of publication: | 1977 |
"Like Harry Potter, but better," says my daughter. "And, it's about a GIRL (Menolly by name) who goes to school to get better at something she's good at." |
Sequel to Dragonsong, which was the first fiction book that captivated my then 9-year old daughter. (Before that, she read non-fiction almost exclusively.) |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Dragonsinger |
Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fiction, Music, Reading level: age 8 and up, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Anne McCaffrey |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction, dragons |
| Year of publication: | 1976 |
I was not sure whether to be shocked or amazed at the outrage my daughter expressed when she realized that Menolly was forbidden to sing just because she was not a male. Guess gender bias has not held my daughter back as of yet. On the other hand, she LOVES this book. |
My daughter also loved Dragonsinger. |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Dragonsong |
Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Culture, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fairy tales, Female protagonist, Fiction, Music, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Astrid Ericsson Lindgren |
| Illustrator: | Louis S. Glanzman |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1950 |
My daughter was hooked the moment Pippi started explaining about how everyone in Egypt walks backwards all the time. |
Can't believe that my daughter was 9 years old before I remembered to remind her to read Pippi Longstocking. And then, she saw the cover and almost refused. So, cover the cover with its broadly comic, ugly picture of Pippi and just start them reading. |
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Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Culture, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, Homeschool, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Marguerite Henry |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | non-fiction: animals |
| Year of publication: | 1948 |
Newbery award-winning story of Sham, the father of the modern thoroughbred, and the slave boy who believed in him. |
Gently written, but the facts of the tale are harrowing. The boy, his horse and his cat are regularly tossed out on the street by uncaring adults. I won't share the ending, but we found the boy's fate disturbing as well. |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: King of the Wind |
Posted in Animals, Biography, Conceptual: 8 and up, Culture, History, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Andrew Rich |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | educational fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1997 |
I absolutely love the book, Andrew Rich, a young reader, tells us, "I absolutely love the book, The Number Devil : A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Rotraut Susanne Berner (Illustrator), Michael Henry Heim (Translator). I'm learning so much from it. It starts out easy, but then it's really big and new and hard!!!"
There's also a DVD:
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Richard Dawkins |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | Non-fiction: Science |
| Year of publication: | 1990 |
Richard Dawkins' take-no-prisoners-style riff on how evolution has made all of us. |
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If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Selfish Gene, The |
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Posted in Animals, Conceptual: age 12 and up, Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Gifted, History, Reading level, Reading level: age 12 and up, Reading level: Sophisticated reader, Science | Comments Closed
