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In a Fix

Posted on January 30, 2014 by webmaster

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In a Fix
by Linda Grimes

nagging a marriage proposal for her client while on an all-expenses-paid vacation should be a simple job for Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire. A kind of human chameleon, she's able to take on her clients' appearances and slip seamlessly into their lives, solving any sticky problems they don't want to deal with themselves. No fuss, no muss. Big paycheck.

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This particular assignment is pretty enjoyable…that is, until Ciel’s island resort bungalow is blown to smithereens and her client’s about-to-be-fiancé is snatched by modern-day Vikings. For some reason, Ciel begins to suspect that getting the ring is going to be a tad more difficult than originally anticipated.

Going from romance to rescue requires some serious gear-shifting, as well as a little backup. Her best friend, Billy, and Mark, the CIA agent she’s been crushing on for years—both skilled adaptors—step in to help, but their priority is, annoyingly, keeping her safe. Before long, Ciel is dedicating more energy to escaping their watchful eyes than she is to saving her client’s intended.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	High School	384	Fantasy	2013	0765368552

Vesper

Posted on January 30, 2014 by webmaster

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Vesper: A Deviant’s Novel
by Jeff Sampson

Emily Webb, 16, is a geek very aware of the glamorous crowd at school, and even more conscious of her uncomfortably curvaceous body. When the class’ other Emily is murdered, Emily W.’s relatively quiet existence gets left behind. Those familiar with contemporary werewolf plotting will recognize Emily W.’s shape-shifting well before she does but will nevertheless enjoy the ride as she sleuths the other Emily’s death, gets on the literal scent track of an unidentified but highly attractive boy, and creates havoc at parties she once never considered attending.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
860L	High School	40	Fantasy	2011	0061992771

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Posted on January 29, 2014 by webmaster

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Here I Am

Posted on December 19, 2013 by webmaster

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Here I Am
by Patti Kim

Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be?

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Elementary School	320	Adventure	2013	1623700361

Information Literacy Pre and Post tests

Posted on November 14, 2013 by webmaster

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Information Literacy Pre- and Post-Tests

Information literacy is an important part of Common Core and the concept of the so-called ‘new literacies‘ (see also New Literacies and the Common Core).

We will be developing several lessons plans to help you tie digital booktalk trailers into those requirements. In the meantime, we offer you some pre and post tests so you can estavblish a baseline with your students:

For Grades 3-5:

Pre-Post Test

Pre-Post Test Answer Key

For Grades 6-8:
Pretest
Post Test
Pre Test Answer Key
Post Test Answer Key

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Nikolas and Company

Posted on November 13, 2013 by webmaster

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Nikolas & Co: The Mermaid and Moon Forgotten
by Kevin McGill

A long time ago in a world not so far away…” Senior stagecoach driver, Yeri Willrow, leads a group of mysterious passengers through one of the most fog-ridden night of his prestigious career. What he thought would be a simple drive and drop quickly turns into an attack by foul-breath, red-eyed creatures. Yeri learns that his mysterious passengers are a family of automaton-legged merfolk, and he is their only hope from the creature most foul. “Sometime in the near future…” Fourteen-year-old Nick lives in a time when one can zip from country to country in mach-speed hovercars, extend their life indefinitely through cerebral downloads, and have every whim taken care of by their ever faithful nannydrone.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Middle School	232	Adventure	2013	1470052911

Ten Miles Past Normal

Posted on November 13, 2013 by webmaster

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Ten Miles Past Normal
by Frances O’Roark Dowell

Janie Gorman strives to be a normal high school freshman, but the fact that she lives on a goat farm doesn’t help her much in her quest for “normal.” She hops on the school bus smelling of goat poop (thanks to her morning chore of milking the goats), and she eats lunch in the library, because none of her friends have the same lunch period as her. To make matters worse, Janie’s mom insists on writing an extremely embarrassing blog about “farm life.” None of these trials are made any easier by Janie’s knowledge that she was the one who recommended the move to the farm in the first place!

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
960L	High School	224	Comedy	2012	1416995862

Graphic Novels

Posted on November 12, 2013 by webmaster

Graphic Novels

The following Set of Plans and supplemental materials were prepared by Dr. Sandra Agle. We have posted them here as an example of what can be done to integrate Digital Booktalk into the Common Core Curriculum. These may be used by K-12 teachers for instructional purposes only and are covered under Creative Commons license.

Dr. Agle has done extensive research into alternative methods to incorporate technology initiatives into the curriculum of Common Core Standards. She has been asked to present these strategies in several symposiums held across the state of Florida. One of the 10 lesson plans being discussed by Dr. Agle is Grades 4-8 Graphic Novels. She includes a lesson strategy to utilize website evaluation techniques to integrate knowledge and ideas by evaluating multiple sources of information in different media or formats – a Common Core standard.

Here are links to the lesson and supplemental materials:

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Captain Awesome to the Rescue

Posted on November 12, 2013 by webmaster

Captain Awesome to the Rescue
by Stan Kirby

Eight-year-old Eugene McGillicudy is an imaginative boy who loves comic books and superheroes. Eugene also has his very own super secret superhero alter ego named Captain Awesome.

When the McGillicudy family relocates to a new town called Sunnyview, Eugene starts a new school, finds a best friend, and even finds time to defend his toys from his two-year-old little sister, Molly! Luckily for Sunnyview, Captain Awesome is there to protect the town (and the universe) from a hilarious cast of comical “bad guys.”

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Elementary School	128	Comedy	2012	01442435615

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Posted on November 10, 2013 by webmaster

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney

Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it’s cracked up to be?

Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older-all without his best friend, Rowley, at his side. Can Greg make it through on his own? Or will he have to face the “ugly truth”?

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
970L	Middle School	224	Comedy	2010	0810984911

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