Provides synopses for over 1,500 titles of current popular fiction and recommends other books by such criteria as authors, characters portrayed, time period, geographical setting, or genre
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... Core Benefits Writing, Too! 6 Final Thoughts 6 Questions for Study 6 2 Choice Excerpts and Nonfiction Pairings: You Lose Some to Gain Some 9 Common Core State Standards (in Our Own Words) 9 Relevance 10 Nonfiction Enhances the Learning 10 ...
... by Richard Fortey The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, by Laurie Garrett The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, by Ann Gibbons Chaos: Making a New Science (and his other work), ...
These volumes contain descriptions of books in eight fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.
The book-length nonfiction that middle schoolers will read possesses a unique blend of heart-rending storytelling, artful juxtaposition of subtopics, and challenging density.
What is the idea that gives "heat" to this text? • Notice key details: What attracts my attention? How does the author signal both direct and implicit statements of meaning? How does the author use the unexpected?
What are nonfiction genres?
This collection of Adler’s nonfiction draws on Toward a Radical Middle (a selection of her earliest New Yorker pieces), A Year in the Dark (her film reviews), and Canaries in the Mineshaft (a selection of essays on politics and media), ...
Matters of Fact examines what happens when writers and readers encounter texts presented as nonfiction: texts that make some truth claim on outside experience, texts whose characters and events have...
Some of them are serious and some of them are frivolous and some of them are earnest and some of them I wrote to try and make people listen.” Illuminating and incisive, witty and wise, The View from the Cheap Seats explores some of the ...