After by Francine Prose
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear. ATOS Reading Level: 5.4 Point Value: 9 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 68888
Websites:

Book Discussion Questions- Waltham High School

Reading Guide from Harper Collins

Curriculum Guide from South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards (word doc) see page 9.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. ATOS Reading Level: 5.1 Point Value: 15 Interest Level: MG Quiz: 77198
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Sally Roof suggests going to the ASSET website and viewing the video on the Hindenburg as a supplement to this book. There are also videos available on Google Video. Sally, also shared books on Hydrogen and Helium with the students. Thanks for the great idea Sally!

Book Cover Scramble

Booktalk- Edmonton Public Library

Crossword Puzzle

Discussion Module- Rhode Island Teen Book Awards

Teacher Guide- Louisiana State Book Awards

Literature Guide by Martha Martin

Airborn and Skybreaker Offical Web site

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister. ATOS Reading Level: 4.4 Point Value: 8 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 59702

Websites:

Activites from the Sequoyah Book Award (pdf file) see page 8

Booktalk from Random House

Lesson Plan from South Carolina Book Award

Lesson Plan- Plattsburgh University student Krista Weber, Primary vs. Secondary sources and this book

Readers Theatre- Young Adult Sequoyah Book Award, see page 6 (pdf file)

Teachers Guide from Random House

The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper
A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club. ATOS Reading Level: 4.7 Point Value: 10 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 69273
Websites:

Lesson Plan- Young Hoosiers Book Award (pdf file) see page 12

Lesson Plan- South Carolina Young Reader Award (word doc) see page 29

Study Guide by Sharon Draper

Teaching Guide from Simon and Schuster

The Dark Pond by Joseph Bruchac
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water. ATOS Reading Level: 5.3 Point Value: 4 Interest Level: MG Quiz: 80688
Websites:

Booktalk- Sequoyah Children's Book Award (pdf file) see page 11

Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. ATOS Reading Level: 5.6 Point Value: 11 Interest Level: MG Quiz: 62559
Websites:

Activities- Sequoyah Book Awards (pdf file) see page 65

Book Discussion Guide- Multnomah County Library

Extension Ideas- Vermont Public Radio

Lesson Plans- Sunshine Book Awards (pdf file) see page 15

Video Booktalk- Click on the letter H on the right side of the page

Honey, Baby Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another. ATOS Reading Level: 5 Point Value: 11 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 79095
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Teacher Guide- Simon and Schuster

My Life and Death by Alexandra Canarsie by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
Escaping school and family problems in a cemetery, fourteen-year-old Allie begins attending strangers' funerals, which leads to her first real friendship and a mystery that she believes only she can solve. ATOS Reading Level: 4.7 Point Value: 10 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 60661
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Teacher Guide from Peachtree Pointers (pdf file)

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. ATOS Reading Level: 5.7 Point Value: 8 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 62564
Websites:

Booktalk and Discussion Activities- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Committee (scroll down the page)

Curriculum Guide- William Allen White Book Award

Booktalk and Discussion Questions- Nutmeg Book Award (word doc)

Lesson Plan- Young Hoosiers Book Award (pdf file) see page 37

Lesson Plan- Sunshine State book Award (pdf file) see page 22

Jean Ferris Web site

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. ATOS Reading Level: 4.8 Point Value: 8 Interest Level: UG Quiz: 61177
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Audio Book sample- Random House

Book Discussion Guide- Multnomah County Library

Lesson Plan- South Carolina Book Award

Booktalk- Edmonton Public Library