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Getting Beyond “Interesting” This page intentionally left blank Getting Beyond “Interesting” Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading Olga M Nesi Copyright 2012 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, or reproducibles, which may be copied for classroom and educational programs only, without prior permission in writing from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nesi, Olga M Getting beyond “interesting” : teaching students the vocabulary of appeal to discuss their reading / Olga M Nesi pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978–1–59884–935–6 (pbk.) — ISBN 978–1–61069–225–0 (e-book) (print) Reading (Middle school)—Activity programs Literature—Study and teaching (Middle school)—Activity programs School libraries—Activity programs Book talks Children—Books and reading I Title LB1632.N347 2012 2012012353 428.40710 2—dc23 ISBN: 978–1–59884–935–6 EISBN: 978–1–61069–225–0 16 15 14 13 12 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook Visit www.abc-clio.com for details Libraries Unlimited An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America For my mother—my first and best teacher ever This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Part One A Plan for Implementing the Teaching of Appeal Terms and Book Hooks Making the Case for Teaching Appeal Terms Concepts If Only It Were So Easy You Don’t Want To Make Any Sudden Moves Around Reluctant Readers While We’re At It, Subject Headings Aren’t Much Help Either and Plot Summaries Are the Kiss of Death In a Nutshell 2 Making the Case for Teaching Book Hook Writing What is a Book Hook? Sharing Book Hooks Book Hooks = Sharing Reading Systematically Sharing Is Not Always Caring (A Word or Two of Caution) How Are Book Hooks Shared? Really, It’s Best to Start Low Tech Low Tech in the ELA Classroom Low Tech in the Library Low Tech Just Outside the Library—The Library Bulletin Board Low Tech in the Building Then Ramp the Technology Up In a Nutshell 8 9 10 13 13 14 A Proposal for Administration 14 Workshops for the English Language Arts Department 15 viii Contents Appeal Terms Workshop Activities for the English Language Arts Department 16 Introductory Appeal Terms Activities The Vocabulary of Appeal What Should I Read Next? The Reading Survey Summary vs Appeal Terms Middle Appeal Terms Activities Whole-Group-Appeal Terms Appeal Terms Carousel Closing Appeal Terms Activities Sorting and/or Collapsing the Vocabulary of Appeal Broadening the Vocabulary of Appeal Selecting Appeal Terms to Teach 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 19 19 20 21 21 Book Hook Workshop Activities for the English Language Arts Department 22 Introducing the Workshop Introductory Book Hook Activities The Book Hook Form The Book Hook Worksheet Form So, What Is a Book Hook and How Do I Write One? Plot-Based Descriptions vs Book Hooks Book Hooks vs Blurbs and Reviews Middle Book Hook Activities Favorite Picture Books Winston the Book Wolf Book Hooks Writing Book Hooks for Favorite Picture Books Writing Book Hooks for Short Stories Closing Book Hook Activities A Rubric for Book Hooks Customizing the Book Hook Formalizing an Official Book Hook Procedure Book Hooks Bulletin Boards Part Two 22 23 23 24 24 24 24 25 25 26 26 26 28 30 30 30 30 On to the Students 31 Activities to Teach Appeal Terms to Students The Reading Survey Lesson Introducing the Experience of Appeal Terms Lesson Appeal Terms Defined/Assigning Appeal Terms (ongoing) Expanding the Vocabulary of Appeal (ongoing) 31 32 33 33 34 Contents ix Appeal Terms Carousel Using the Arts to Deepen the Understanding of Appeal Terms Activities to Teach Book Hook Writing to Students What’s the Hook? (Lesson) Visit by Walter Dean Myers—What’s the Hook? Lesson The Text Engagement Conversation and Reading Log Entries (ongoing) Summarizing (lesson and ongoing) Building a Book Hook A Closing Thought Appendix A: Reproducible Forms A-1 The Book Hook A-2 Proposal for Administration Worksheet A-3 Reading Survey A-4 Summary vs Appeal Terms A-5 Appeal Terms Worksheet A-6 Book Hook Worksheet A-7 So, What Is a Book Hook and How Do I Write One? A-8 Plot-Based Descriptions vs Book Hooks A-9 Book Hook Rubric A-10 Appeal Bookmarks Appendix B: Resources B-1 Student Appeal List B-2 Library Book Hooks List #1 B-3 Library Book Hooks List #2 B-4 What Should I Read Next? Why? B-5 Picture Book Bibliography Alphabetical by Title B-7 Book Hooks Without Covers Alphabetical by Title B-8 Book Hooks for Winston the Book Wolf B-9 What Appeals to You? B-10 Appeal Terms Glossary Bibliography 36 36 36 39 39 39 43 46 51 53 53 54 56 58 59 61 62 63 64 65 67 67 69 71 73 74 98 151 152 154 163 Index 165 CD-ROM Contents (Please see the About This Book section for suggestions for how to use these.) Appendix A Items: A-1 The Book Hook A-2 Proposal for Administration Worksheet A-3 Reading Survey A-4 Summary vs Appeal Terms Index America? A Thanksgiving Story (Bunting)*, 82; I Have an Olive Tree (Bunting), 82; Ira Sleeps Over (Waber), 83; Koala Lou (Fox), 83; Ma Dear’s Aprons (McKissack), 84; Molly Bannaky (McGill), 86; Momma, Where Are You From? (Brady), 86; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; My Father’s Boat (Garland), 86; Mystery Bottle (Balouch), 87; Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (dePaola), 87; The Orange Shoes (Noble), 88; Our Gracie Aunt (Woodson), 88; A Picnic in October (Bunting), 74; Pictures from Our Vacation (Perkins)*, 89; The Rag Coat (Mills), 89; Spuds (Hesse), 91; Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig), 92; The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst), 92; Thanks a LOT Emily Post! (Huget)*, 92; That’s Papa’s Way (Banks), 92; Through Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan), 93; Tight Times (Hazen), 93; Too Many Tamales (Soto)*, 93; Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop (King), 94; Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding (Look), 94; The Wall (Bunting), 95; The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting), 95; When Charlie McButton Lost Power (Collins), 95; Yesterday I Had the Blues (Frame), 96; Yoko’s Paper Cranes (Wells), 96 Fantasia, 36 Farfallina & Marcel (Keller), 77 Fast pace, 71–72, 156; The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Rogers), 76; But Excuse Me That Is My Book (Child), 76; Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Cronin), 76; Cloud Dance (Locker), 76; Dear Mr Blueberry (James), 77; Dear Vampa (Collins), 77; Earrings! (Viorst), 78; Gorilla! Gorilla! (Willis), 80; Grandmother’s Garden (Archambault), 81; Hattie the Bad (Devlin), 81; I Hate School (Willis), 82; The Island on the Skog (Kellog), 83; King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood), 83; The Little Matador (Hector), 84; McFig and McFly; A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (Drescher, McFig, and McFly), 85; Michael Recycle (Bethel), 85; Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard and Marshall), 85; The Monkey and the Crocodile (Galdone), 86; Mystery Bottle (Balouch), 87; Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (Barett), 87; Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman), 87; Roller Coaster (Frazee), 89; Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (Juster), 90; When Charlie McButton Lost Power (Collins), 95; When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry (Bang), 95; When Turtle Grew Feathers (Tingle), 95; Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley), 96; Zomo the Rabbit (McDermott), 97 Feathers and Fools (Fox), 77–78 171 Fergus and the Night Demon: An Irish Ghost Story (Murphy), 79 Fever 1793 (Anderson), 113 Fiona’s Luck (Bateman), 79 Fireflies! (Brinckloe), 79 Fly Away Home (Bunting), 79 Fly High Fly Low (Freeman), 79 Foreboding tone, 156; The Crane Wife (Bodkin), 77; The Day the Stones Walked: A Tale of Easter Island (Barron), 92; Encounter (Yolen), 78; Goal! (Javaherbin), 80; Golem (Wisniewski)*, 80; Gorilla!Gorilla! (Willis), 80; McFig and McFly; A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (Drescher, McFig, and McFly)*, 85; Selvakumar Knew Better (Kroll), 90; Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting), 92; The Wolves in the Walls (Gaiman), 96; The Wump World (Peet)*, 96; Your Move (Bunting)*, 97 The Fortune Tellers (Alexander), 79 Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79 Frame: terms for, Frederick (Lionni), 79 Fred Stays with Me (Coffelt), 79 Funerals & Fly Fishing (Bartek), 114 The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), 79 Gator Gumbo (Fleming), 79 Genre-driven readers’ advisory exchange, Genres, 4, xiii Gentle story line, 156; Amos and Boris (Steig), 75; Basket Moon (Ray)*, 75; Big Wolf and Little Wolf—The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall (Brun-Cosme), 75; Cherry and Olive (Lacombe), 76; The Curious Garden (Brown), 77; Dear Juno (Pak), 77; Dear Mr Blueberry (James)*, 77; Fireflies! (Brinckloe), 79; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79; Fred Stays with Me (Coffelt)*, 79; The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum (Bernheimer), 80; Great Joy (DiCamillo), 81; Hondo and Fabian (McCarty), 82; Immi’s Gift (Littlewood), 82; The Little Yellow Leaf (Berger), 84; Louie (Keats)*, 84; Momma, Where Are You From? (Brady), 86; Mrs Katz and Tush (Polacco)*, 86; My Father’s Boat (Garland), 86; The Polar Express (Van Allsburg), 89; Rabbit’s Gift (Shannon)*, 89; The Rag Coat (Mills), 89; Snow (Rylant), 90; The Snowy Day (Keats), 91; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson), 92; The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst), 92; Those Shoes (Boelts), 93; Through Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan), 93; Tight Times (Hazen), 93; Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora)*, 93; 172 Index Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley), 96; Zen Ties (Muth), 97 George and Martha (Marshall), 79 Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky), 79 The Giant Carrot (Peck), 80 A Gift from the Sea (Banks), 74 The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum (Bernheimer), 80 Glossary of appeal terms, 33 Goal! (Javaherbin), 80 Going Home (Bunting), 80 Going North (Harrington), 80 Goin’ Someplace Special (McKissack), 80 Golem (Wisniewski), 80 Good Enough to Eat (Cole), 80 Good Enough (Yoo), 114 The Good Luck Cat (Harjo), 80 A Good Night for Freedom (Morrow), 74 Goodreads, 13 Gorilla! Gorilla! (Willis), 80 Gorky Rises (Steig), 80 Grandfather’s Journey (Say), 80 Grandmama’s Pride (Birtha), 80 Grandmother’s Garden (Archambault), 81 Grandpa’s Teeth (Clement), 81 The Graveyard Book (Gaiman), 115 The Great Blue House (Banks), 81 Great Joy (DiCamillo), 81 The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (Cherry), 81 Greedy Zebra (Hadithi), 81 Gritty tone, 156; Black Cat (Myers), 75 The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81 Hannah Is My Name (Yang), 81 Happy Kid (Gauthier), 115 Hard edged, 157 The Harmonica (Johnston), 81 Harper Collins website, 24 Hatchet (Paulsen), 3–4 Hattie and the Waves (Cooney), 81 Hattie the Bad (Devlin), 81 The Have a Good Day Cafe´ (Park and Park), 81 The Heart and the Bottle (Jeffers), 40, 81 Heartwarming tone, 157 A Band of Angels—A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (Hopkinson), 74; Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier), 75; Blueberry Girl (Gaiman), 76; A Chair for My Mother (Williams), 74; The Curious Garden (Brown), 77; Dear Juno (Pak), 77; The Dog Who Belonged to No One (Hest)*, 78; Dolphins on the Sand (Arnosky)*, 78; Farfallina& Marcel (Keller), 78; Gorilla! Gorilla! (Willis), 80; Grandmother’s Garden (Archambault)*, 81; The Have a Good Day Cafe´ (Park and Park), 81; The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster), 82; Koala Lou (Fox)*, 83; Louie (Keats)*, 84; Miss Rumphius (Cooney), 86; Mole Music (McPhail), 86; Momma, Where Are You From? (Brady), 86; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; The Orange Shoes (Noble)*, 88; The Paper Crane (Bang), 88; Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Blabey), 88; Pictures from Our Vacation (Perkins), 89; See the Ocean (Condra)*, 90; Spuds (Hesse)*, 91; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson), 92; That’s Papa’s Way (Banks), 92; Too Many Tamales (Soto), 93; Toot and Puddle: Let it Snow (Hobbie), 93; Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding (Look), 94 Heavy tone, 157; Cherry and Olive (Lacombe)*, 76; Dandelions (Bunting)*, 77; A Day’s Work (Bunting)*, 74; The Harmonica (Johnston)*, 81; Pink and Say (Polacco), 89; The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind (Zolotow), 89; The Wretched Stone (Van Allsburg), 96 The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster), 82 Hen Hears Gossip (McDonald), 82 Hero (Rottman), 67 Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen), 82 Hiroshima No Pika (Maruki), 82 Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story (Mansfield), 82 Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies (Wolfson), 116 Hondo and Fabian (McCarty), 82 The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (McKissack), 82 Hopeful tone, 157; Amelia’s Road (Altman)*, 74; Angel Child, Dragon Child (Surat), 75; Apples to Oregon (Hopkinson), 75; Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier), 75; A Chair for My Mother (Williams)*, 74; The Curious Garden (Brown), 77; Hannah Is My Name (Yang)*, 81; The Harmonica (Johnston), 81; Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes), 83; Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus), 83; Mirette on the High Wire (McCully)*, 85; Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard and Marshall), 85; Mole Music (McPhail), 86; Molly Bannaky (McGill), 86; The Moon Over Star (Hutts), 86; My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the Birth of American Sign Language (McCully)*, 86; Naming Liberty (Yolen), 87; Nicolas, Where Have You Been? (Lionni), 87; Once Upon a Time (Daly)*, 88; One Green Apple (Bunting)*, 88; The Other Side (Woodson), 88; Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone)*, Index 89; Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), 94; Selvakumar Knew Better (Kroll), 90; Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Rumford)*, 90; Small Florence—Piggy Pop Star! (Alexander), 90; Smoky Night (Bunting), 90; Thank You, Mr Falker (Polacco)*, 92; Tight Times (Hazen)*, 93; The Treasure (Shulevitz), 94; Wings (Myers), 96 Houdini: The Handcuff King (Lutes and Bertozzi), 116 How Angel Peterson Got His Name (Paulsen), 71, 117 How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story (Bunting), 82 How the Hangman Lost His Heart (Grant), 117 Huge (Paley), 118 Hugging the Rock (Brown), 118 Humorous tone, 157; A Bad Case of the Stripes (Shannon), 74; The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Rogers), 76; But Excuse Me That Is My Book (Child), 76; The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County (Harrington), 76; Chrysanthemum (Henkes), 76; Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Cronin), 76; The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Gaiman), 77; Dear Mr Blueberry (James), 77; Dear Vampa (Collins), 77; The Dunderheads (Fleischman), 78; Earrings! (Viorst), 78; Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World (Burningham), 78; The Fortune Tellers (Alexander), 79; Fred Stays with Me (Coffelt), 79; George and Martha (Marshall), 79; Grandpa’s Teeth (Clement), 81; Greedy Zebra (Hadithi), 81; The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81; Hattie the Bad (Devlin), 81; Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story (Mansfield), 82; Iggy Peck, Architect (Beaty)*, 82; I Hate School (Willis)*, 82; Ira Sleeps Over (Waber), 83; It Could Always be Worse (Zemach), 83; I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Child), 82; King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood), 83; Love and Roast Chicken (Knutson), 84; The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster (Flaherty), 84; Martha Speaks (Meddaugh), 85; Max’s Words (Banks), 85; Michael Recycle (Bethel), 85; The Monkey and the Crocodile (Galdone), 86; The Napping House (Wood), 87; Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (Barett), 87; Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman), 87; Nothing (Agee), 87; The Odious Ogre (Juster), 87; Old Cricket (Wheeler), 87; Owen (Henkes), 88; The Pain and the Great One (Blume), 88; Pancakes for Supper (Isaacs), 88; The Retired Kid (Agee), 89; Sheila Rae, the Brave (Henkes), 90; Sneaky Weasel (Shaw), 90; Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell), 91; Stellaluna 173 (Cannon), 91; Stone Soup (Brown), 91; The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf), 91; The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Johnston), 92; Thanks a LOT Emily Post! (Huget), 92; Too Close Friends (Shen), 93; Tops & Bottoms (Stevens), 93; Trouble Gum (Cordell)*, 94; When Charlie McButton Lost Power (Collins), 95; When Randolph Turned Rotten (Harper), 95; When Turtle Grew Feathers (Tingle), 95; Who Wants to be a Poodle— I Don’t (Child), 96; Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley), 96; Wolf! (Bloom), 96; Young Mouse and Elephant—An East African Folktale (Farris), 96 The Hunger Games (Collins), 5, 119 Hurricane Song (Volponi), 69–70, 119 I, Doko—The Tale of a Basket (Young), 82 If I Grow Up (Strasser), 120 If I Stay (Forman), 120 Iggy Peck, Architect (Beaty), 82 I Hate English (Levine), 82 I Hate School (Willis), 82 I Have an Olive Tree (Bunting), 82 Illustrations: appeal terms, 17–18; enhancing story, 37 I’m Exploding Now (Hite), 121 Immi’s Gift (Littlewood), 83 In a Blue Room (Averbeck), 83 Inch by Inch (Lionni), 83 Independent reading, 1–2 Inspirational story line, 157; Brave Irene (Steig), 76; Emily (Bedard), 78; Frederick (Lionni)*, 79; Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky), 79; Goal! (Javaherbin)*, 80; The Harmonica (Johnston), 81; The Magic Pillow (Demi)*, 85; Mirette on the High Wire (McCully), 85; Miss Rumphius (Cooney)*, 86; Mole Music (McPhail), 86; My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the Birth of American Sign Language (McCully)*, 86; The Paper Crane (Bang), 88; Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone), 89; Pink and Say (Polacco), 89; Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), 94; Ruby’s Wish (Bridges)*, 90; Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Rumford), 90; Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell)*, 91; Sweet, Sweet Memory (Woodson)*, 91; Swimmy (Lionni)*, 91; Twenty-one Elephants (Bidner)*, 94; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox), 96; Wings (Myers), 96 Interesting, 32–33 Internal, 157 Interrupted reading, 41 Intriguing secondary characters, 157 174 Index Introspective characters/characterization, 19, 157; A Blue So Blue (Dumont), 74; Dear Willie Rudd (Gray), 77; Emily (Bedard), 78; Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky)*, 79; Going Home (Bunting), 80; Grandfather’s Journey (Say)*, 80; The Harmonica (Johnston), 81; I Have an Olive Tree (Bunting)*, 82; Letting Go Swift River (Yolen), 83; The Magic Pillow (Demi), 85; Me, All Alone, at the End of the World (Anderson), 85; Mole Music (McPhail), 86; My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the Birth of American Sign Language (McCully), 86; Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood), 87; One Green Apple (Bunting), 88; Pennies in a Jar (Chaconas)*, 89; Visiting Day (Woodson)*, 95; The Wall (Bunting)*, 95; Zen Ghosts (Muth), 97; Zen Ties (Muth), 97 Invisible (Hautman), 121 Ira Sleeps Over (Waber), 83 The Island on the Skog (Kellog), 83 Issue-oriented story line, 157; Almost to Freedom (Nelson), 74; Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier), 75; Chrysanthemum (Henkes)*, 76; A Day’s Work (Bunting), 74; Dear Willie Rudd (Gray), 77; Encounter (Yolen), 78; Feathers and Fools (Fox), 78; Fly Away Home (Bunting), 79; Going Home (Bunting)*, 80; Going North (Harrington)*, 80; Goin’ Someplace Special (McKissack)*, 80; A Good Night for Freedom (Morrow), 74; Gorilla! Gorilla! (Willis)*, 80; Grandmama’s Pride (Birtha)*, 80; Grandmother’s Garden (Archambault), 81; The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (Cherry)*, 81; Hannah Is My Name (Yang), 81; Hen Hears Gossip (McDonald), 82; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (McKissack), 82; How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story (Bunting), 82; The Little Matador (Hector), 84; The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster (Flaherty), 84; The Memory String (Bunting), 85; Michael Recycle (Bethel)*, 85; Molly Bannaky (McGill), 86; Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (dePaola)*, 87; Nicolas, Where Have You Been? (Lionni), 87; Nothing (Agee)*, 87; One Green Apple (Bunting), 88; The Other Side (Woodson), 88; The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Stroud), 88; Pennies in a Jar (Chaconas), 89; Rosie and the Nightmares (Waechter)*, 89; She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head (Lasky)*, 90; Smoky Night (Bunting)*, 90; Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson), 91; They Came from the Bronx (Waldman), 93; Tin Lizzie (Drummond), 93; Unlovable (Yaccarino), 95; Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism (Altman)*, 95; The Wretched Stone (Van Allsburg), 96; The Wump World (Peet), 96; Yoko (Wells)*, 96; Your Move (Bunting), 97 It Could Always be Worse (Zemach), 83 I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Child), 82 Jennie’s Hat (Keats), 83 Joe Rat (Barratt), 122 Joyride (Ehrlich), 122 The Juvie Three (Korman), 123 King, Florence, King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood), 83 The Kite Runner (Hosseini), 67 Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes), 83 Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka (Scieszka), 71, 123 Koala Lou (Fox), 83 The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (Delaney), 124 The Last Apprentice (Delaney), 71 The Last Book in the Universe (Philbrick), 124 Lawn Boy (Paulsen), 71, 125 Layered story line, 157; The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) (Paul), 77; The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (Parry and Gilliland)*, 77; The Heart and the Bottle (Jeffers), 81; The Milkman’s Boy (Hall)*, 85; The Moon Over Star (Hutts)*, 86; Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan), 88 Learners: life-long, Leisurely pace, 157; Bigmamma’s (Crews), 75; Dear Willie Rudd (Gray), 77; Earth to Audrey (Hughes), 78; The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster), 82; Lily Brown’s Paintings (Johnson), 84; Ming Lo Moves the Mountain (Lobel), 85; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; My Father’s Boat (Garland), 86; My Name is Yoon (Recorvits), 86; The Paper Crane (Bang), 88; Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Blabey), 88; Sneaky Weasel (Shaw), 90; Strega Nona (dePaola), 91; Toot and Puddle: Let it Snow (Hobbie), 93; Yoko (Wells), 96 Lemonade Mouth (Hughes), 125 Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus), 83 Leslie’s Journal (Stratton), 126 Letting Go Swift River (Yolen), 83 Lewis, E B., 18 The Liberation of Gabriel King (Going), 126 The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Lasky), 83 Library: bulletin board and sharing Book Hooks, 10–13; sharing Book Hooks, 9–10 Index Library Book Hooks List #1, 69–70 Library Hook Hooks List #2, 71–72 Life As We Knew It (Pfeffer), 67 Lifelike characters/characterization, 157; The Art Lesson (dePaola), 75; A Chair for My Mother (Williams), 74; The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (Parry and Gilliland), 77; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79; Goal! (Javaherbin), 80; A Good Night for Freedom (Morrow), 74; Hannah Is My Name (Yang), 81; Hen Hears Gossip (McDonald), 82; Koala Lou (Fox), 83; The Little Matador (Hector), 84; Looking After Louis (Ely), 84; Ma Dear’s Aprons (McKissack), 84; Magnus at the Fire (Armstrong), 85; Mirette on the High Wire (McCully), 85; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; My Father’s Boat (Garland), 86; Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (dePaola), 87; The Paperboy (Pilkey), 88; Ruby’s Wish (Bridges), 90; Tea with Milk (Say), 92; Twenty-one Elephants (Bidner), 94; Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding (Look), 94; Uptown (Collier), 95; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox), 96; Yoko (Wells), 96 Life-long learners, Lily Brown’s Paintings (Johnson), 84 Little Eagle (Hong), 84 The Little Matador (Hector), 84 The Little Yellow Leaf (Berger), 84 Lively pace, 157; A Bad Case of the Stripes (Shannon), 74; Blueberry Girl (Gaiman), 76; The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Rogers), 76; But Excuse Me That Is My Book (Child), 76; The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County (Harrington)*, 76; The Duchess of Whimsy: An Absolutely Delicious Fairy Tale (de Seve), 93; The Dunderheads (Fleischman), 78; Dust Devil (Isaacs), 78; Fergus and the Night Demon: An Irish Ghost Story (Murphy), 79; Fred Stays with Me (Coffelt), 79; The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), 79; Gator Gumbo (Fleming), 79; George and Martha (Marshall), 79; The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81; Iggy Peck, Architect (Beaty), 82; Inch by Inch (Lionni), 83; I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Child), 82; Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes), 83; Koala Lou (Fox), 83; Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus), 83; Lord of the Animals: A Native American Creation Myth (French), 84; Love and Roast Chicken (Knutson)*, 84; The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster (Flaherty), 84; Madeline (Bemelmans), 84; A Mama for Owen (Bauer), 74; Max’s Words (Banks), 84; The Monkey and 175 the Crocodile (Galdone)*, 86; Mrs Katz and Tush (Polacco), 86; Nicolas, Where Have You Been? (Lionni), 87; The Night Eater (Juan), 87; Peggony Po: A Whale of a Tale (Pinkney), 88; The Retired Kid (Agee), 89; Seven Blind Mice (Young), 90; She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head (Lasky), 90; Small Florence—Piggy Pop Star! (Alexander), 90; Somewhere in the World Right Now (Schuett), 91; Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell), 91; Stellaluna (Cannon)*, 91; Stone Soup (Brown), 91; Swamp Angel (Isaacs), 91; Swimmy (Lionni), 91; Tadpole’s Promise (Willis), 92; Thanks a LOT Emily Post! (Huget), 92; Tin Lizzie (Drummond), 93; Tops & Bottoms (Stevens), 93; Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg), 94; Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley), 96; Yesterday I Had the Blues (Frame), 96 Locomotion (Woodson), 127 The London Eye Mystery (Dowd), 127 The Longest Night (Bauer), 84 Looking After Louis (Ely), 84 Looks (George), 128 Lord of the Animals: A Native American Creation Myth (French), 84 Louie (Keats), 84 Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (DiCamillo), 84 Love Among the Walnuts (Ferris), 128 Love and Roast Chicken (Knutson), 84 Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Sante), 73 Low Life (Sante), The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster (Flaherty), 84 Lush tone, 158; Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan)*, 88; The Seashore Book (Zolotow), 90 Ma Dear’s Aprons (McKissack), 84 Madeline (Bemelmans), 84 Magical tone, 158; Basho and the River Stones (Myers), 75; Batwings and the Curtain of Night (Davol), 75; Big Wolf and Little Wolf—The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall (Brun-Cosme)*, 75; Blueberry Girl (Gaiman), 76; In a Blue Room (Averbeck)*, 83; The Boy Who Wouldn’t Obey—A Mayan Legend (Rockwell), 76; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barett)*, 76; The Crane Wife (Bodkin)*, 77; The Curious Garden (Brown), 77; Dream Weaver (London)*, 78; Earth to Audrey (Hughes)*, 78; Emily (Bedard), 78; Fiona’s Luck (Bateman)*, 79; Fireflies! (Brinckloe)*, 79; Frederick (Lionni), 79; The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), 79; The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum (Bernheimer), 80; The Hair of Zoe 176 Index Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81; Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen), 82; Immi’s Gift (Littlewood)*, 83; Jennie’s Hat (Keats), 83; Lily Brown’s Paintings (Johnson), 84; The Longest Night (Bauer), 84; Me, All Alone, at the End of the World (Anderson)*, 85; The Night Eater (Juan)*, 87; Owl Moon (Yolen), 88; Pezzettino (Lionni)*, 89; Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) (Heide), 89; Snow (Rylant), 90; The Stranger (Van Allsburg), 91; Swimmy (Lionni), 91; The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin)*, 92; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson)*, 92; The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East (Kimmel), 93; Urso Brunov and the White Emperor (Jacques), 95 The Magic Pillow (Demi), 85 The Magician’s Elephant (DiCamillo), 129 Magnus at the Fire (Armstrong), 85 A Mama for Owen (Bauer), 74 Martha Speaks (Meddaugh), 85 Martyn Pig (Brooks), 70, 129 Maximum Ride—The Angel Experiment (Patterson), 12, 130 Max’s Words (Banks), 85 McFig and McFly; A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (Drescher, McFig, and McFly), 85 Me, All Alone, at the End of the World (Anderson), 85 Measured pace, 158; The Art Lesson (dePaola), 75; Basho and the River Stones (Myers), 75; Black Cat (Myers), 75; Brave Irene (Steig), 76; The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) (Paul), 77; The Crystal Heart (Shepard), 77; Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World (Burningham), 78; Feathers and Fools (Fox), 78; Fly Away Home (Bunting), 79; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79; Frederick (Lionni), 79; The Giant Carrot (Peck), 80; A Gift from the Sea (Banks), 74; Going Home (Bunting), 80; The Good Luck Cat (Harjo), 80; The Have a Good Day Cafe´ (Park and Park), 81; The Heart and the Bottle (Jeffers), 81; Hen Hears Gossip (McDonald), 82; It Could Always be Worse (Zemach), 83; The Longest Night (Bauer), 84; Ma Dear’s Aprons (McKissack), 84; Mister Seahorse (Carle), 86; Momma, Where Are You From? (Brady), 86; The Odious Ogre (Juster), 87; Pancakes for Supper (Isaacs), 88; Pennies in a Jar (Chaconas), 89; Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone), 89; Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig), 92; The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin), 92; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson), 92; Thank You, Mr Falker (Polacco), 92; Too Close Friends (Shen), 93; Traces (Fox)*, 93; Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley), 94; Twenty-one Elephants (Bidner), 94; Twilight Comes Twice (Fletcher), 94; Visiting Day (Woodson), 95; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox), 96; Your Move (Bunting), 97 Melodramatic tone, 158; Dust Devil (Isaacs), 78; Hen Hears Gossip (McDonald), 82; The Island on the Skog (Kellog)*, 83; Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (Juster)*, 91; Swamp Angel (Isaacs), 91; Unlovable (Yaccarino)*, 95; Victor and Christabel (Mathers)*, 95 The Memory String (Bunting), 85 Menacing tone, 158; Encounter (Yolen), 78; Fergus and the Night Demon: An Irish Ghost Story (Murphy), 79; Gorilla! Gorilla! (Willis), 80; Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting), 92; Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg)*, 94 Messed Up (Lynch), 130 Michael Recycle (Bethel), 85 Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf—A Year Told Through Stuff (Holm), 131 The Milkman’s Boy (Hall), 85 Milo Armadillo (Fearnley), 85 Ming Lo Moves the Mountain (Lobel), 85 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (DiCamillo), 131 Mirette on the High Wire (McCully), 85 The Misfits (Howe), 132 The Missing Girl (Mazer), 132 Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard and Marshall), 85 Miss Rumphius (Cooney), 86 Mister Seahorse (Carle), 86 Mitchell, Joseph, Mole Music (McPhail), 86 Molly Bannaky (McGill), 86 Momma, Where Are You From? (Brady), 86 The Monkey and the Crocodile (Galdone), 86 The Moon Over Star (Hutts), 86 Mrs Katz and Tush (Polacco), 86 Multiple plot lines story line, 158; The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Rogers)*, 76; Naming Liberty (Yolen)*, 87; They Came from the Bronx (Waldman), 93 Multiple points of view characters/ characterization, 158; The Moon Over Star (Hutts), 86; The Pain and the Great One (Blume)*, 88; Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan), 88; Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), 94; Seven Blind Mice (Young)*, 90; That’s Papa’s Way (Banks)*, 92; Through Index Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan)*, 93; Toot and Puddle: Let it Snow (Hobbie)*, 93 Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86 My Father’s Boat (Garland), 86 My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the Birth of American Sign Language (McCully), 86 My Name is Yoon (Recorvits), 86 The Mysterious Benedict Society (Stewart), 12, 133 Mystery Bottle (Balouch), 87 Mystical story line, 158; Big Wolf and Little Wolf— The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall (Brun-Cosme)*, 75; Fiona’s Luck (Bateman), 79; Golem (Wisniewski), 80; Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood)*, 87; The Paper Crane (Bang), 88; The Stranger (Van Allsburg)*, 91; The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Rachel)*, 94; Zen Ghosts (Muth)*, 97 Mystical tone: Crazy Horse’s Vision (Bruchac), 77; On the Day You Were Born (Frasier)*, 87; Little Eagle (Hong)*, 84; Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood), 87; Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley)*, 94; Zen Ghosts (Muth)*, 97 Mythic story line, 158; Batwings and the Curtain of Night (Davol)*, 75; The Day the Stones Walked: A Tale of Easter Island (Barron)*, 92; Dust Devil (Isaacs)*, 78; Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen), 82; The Night Eater (Juan), 87; Storm Boy (Lewis)*, 91; Swamp Angel (Isaacs)*, 91 Naked (Sedaris), 73 The Name of This Book Is Secret (Bosch), 71–72 Naming Liberty (Yolen), 87 Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (dePaola), 87 The Napping House (Wood), 87 Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are (Cart), 18 Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (Barett), 87 New York Times, 24 Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman), 87 Nicolas, Where Have You Been? (Lionni), 87 The Night Eater (Juan), 87 Nightmare tone, 158; Hiroshima No Pika (Maruki)*, 82; Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting)*, 92 No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row (Kuklin), 133 Nothing (Agee), 87 The Odious Ogre (Juster), 87 Old Cricket (Wheeler), 87 Old Henry (Blos), 87 Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood), 87 Olivia (Falconer), 35, 40 177 Once Upon a Time (Daly), 88 On the Day You Were Born (Frasier), 87 One Green Apple (Bunting), 88 Open ended story line, 158; The Crane Wife (Bodkin), 77; Dear Willie Rudd (Gray), 77 The Orange Shoes (Noble), 88 The Other Side (Woodson), 88 Our Gracie Aunt (Woodson), 88 Owen (Henkes), 88 Owl Moon (Yolen), 88 Pace, 158; appeal terms, 5, 152 Pace table, 19–21 The Pain and the Great One (Blume), 88 Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan), 88 Pancakes for Supper (Isaacs), 88 The Paperboy (Pilkey), 40, 88 The Paper Crane (Bang), 88 Pastworld (Beck), 134 The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Stroud), 88 Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Blabey), 88 Peer recommendations, 7–8 Peggony Po: A Whale of a Tale (Pinkney), 88 Pennies in a Jar (Chaconas), 89 Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone), 89 Perfect (Friend), 67 Personal reading preferences, xiii Persuasive writing, 16 Pezzettino (Lionni), 89 A Picnic in October (Bunting), 74 Picture books, 33, 38, 39, 41; appeal terms, 17; bibliography, 25, 39; Book Hooks, 25; illustrations, 17–18; summaries, 44 Picture Books/Appeal Terms Bibliography, 19 Pictures from Our Vacation (Perkins), 89 Picture the Dead (Griffin and Brown), 134 Pieces of Georgia (Bryant), 135 Pink and Say (Polacco), 89 Plot, 3; summaries, 3–4 Plot-based descriptions vs Book Hooks, 24, 63 Plot-centered story line, 159; Doctor De Soto (Steig)*, 77 Plot twists story line, 159; Gator Gumbo (Fleming)*, 79; Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen)*, 82; The Treasure (Shulevitz)*, 94 Poison (Wooding), 135 The Polar Express (Van Allsburg), 89 Political, 159 The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind (Zolotow), 89 Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) (Heide), 89 178 Index Proposal for administration, 14–15 Proposal for Administration Worksheet, 54–55 Psychological tone, 159; Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism (Altman), 95 Queen of the Toilet Bowl (Wishinsky), 67 Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, xiii Quiet tone, 159; Basket Moon (Ray), 75; Cherry and Olive (Lacombe), 76; Coming On Home Soon (Woodson), 77; A Day’s Work (Bunting), 74; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79; Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky), 79; The Great Blue House (Banks), 81; Great Joy (DiCamillo), 81; Hondo and Fabian (McCarty), 82; Letting Go Swift River (Yolen), 83; The Little Yellow Leaf (Berger)*, 84; The Longest Night (Bauer)*, 84; Ma Dear’s Aprons (McKissack)*, 84; Miss Rumphius (Cooney), 86; Our Gracie Aunt (Woodson), 88; Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan), 88; The Paperboy (Pilkey)*, 88; Rabbit’s Gift (Shannon), 89; Snow (Rylant), 90; The Snowy Day (Keats)*, 91; Sweet, Sweet Memory (Woodson), 91; They Came from the Bronx (Waldman), 93; Through Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan), 93; Twilight Comes Twice (Fletcher)*, 94; Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz and Kurtz), 95; The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting)*, 95 Quill & Quire website, 24 Quirky characters/characterization, 19, 159; Almost to Freedom (Nelson), 74; Amos and Boris (Steig), 75; A Bad Case of the Stripes (Shannon), 74; A Blue So Blue (Dumont)*, 74; But Excuse Me That Is My Book (Child), 76; The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County (Harrington), 76; Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Cronin)*, 76; The Curious Garden (Brown), 77; Dear Mr Blueberry (James), 77; The Dunderheads (Fleischman), 78; Earth to Audrey (Hughes), 78; Fiona’s Luck (Bateman), 79; The Fortune Tellers (Alexander)*, 79; Frederick (Lionni), 79; The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), 79; Gorky Rises (Steig), 80; Grandpa’s Teeth (Clement)*, 81; The Heart and the Bottle (Jeffers), 81; The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster)*, 82; Jennie’s Hat (Keats), 83; Leo the Late Bloomer (Kraus), 83; Max’s Words (Banks), 85; Michael Recycle (Bethel), 85; Ming Lo Moves the Mountain (Lobel)*, 85; Miss Rumphius (Cooney), 86; The Monkey and the Crocodile (Galdone), 86; Mystery Bottle (Balouch)*, 87; Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman), 87; Pezzettino (Lionni), 89; Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) (Heide), 89; The Retired Kid (Agee)*, 89; The Scarecrow’s Hat (Brown), 90; She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head (Lasky), 90; Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell), 91; Swimmy (Lionni), 91; Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig), 92; Tadpole’s Promise (Willis), 92; Tin Lizzie (Drummond), 93; The Treasure (Shulevitz), 94; Victor and Christabel (Mathers), 95; When Turtle Grew Feathers (Tingle), 95; Who Wants to be a Poodle—I Don’t (Child)*, 96; The Wolves in the Walls (Gaiman)*, 96 Rabbit’s Gift (Shannon), 89 The Rag and Bone Shop (Cormier), 136 The Rag Coat (Mills), 89 Readers: avid, 2; connecting with similar experience, 3; reading preferences, 39; reluctant, 2; using different Book Hooks, 5, Readers’ advisory exchange, 2–3 Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library, 3rd Ed (Saricks), 56, 59–60 Readers’ Advisory Service in the Public Library (ALA 2005), xiii–xiv Reading: across genres, 4; emotionally as well as cognitively engaged with, 7; fluency, 1; fostering regular communication about, 7; increasing, 38; independent, 1–2; interrupted, 41; personal preferences, xiii; proficiency, 1; reluctant, 1–2 Reading log, 39, 41, 43 Reading Survey, 17, 32–33, 56–57 Reading Survey Lesson, 34 Realistic characters/characterization, 159; Amelia’s Road (Altman), 74; Angel Child, Dragon Child (Surat), 75; Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier), 75; A Day’s Work (Bunting), 74; Fly Away Home (Bunting), 79; Going North (Harrington), 80; Grandmama’s Pride (Birtha), 80; How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story (Bunting), 82; I Hate School (Willis), 82; Madeline (Bemelmans), 84; The Memory String (Bunting), 85; The Milkman’s Boy (Hall), 85; Molly Bannaky (McGill), 86; Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs (dePaola), 87; The Orange Shoes (Noble), 88; The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Stroud), 88; The Rag Coat (Mills), 89; Rent Party Jazz (Miller), 89; Smoky Night (Bunting), 90; The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst), 92; Thanks a LOT Emily Post! (Huget), 92; Those Shoes (Boelts), 93; Tight Times (Hazen), 93; Tomas and the Library Lady Index (Mora), 93; Too Many Tamales (Soto), 93; Visiting Day (Woodson), 95; Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism (Altman), 95; Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz and Kurtz), 95; The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting), 95; Your Move (Bunting), 97 Recognizable characters/characterization, 159; Basho and the River Stones (Myers), 75; Basket Moon (Ray), 75; Black Cat (Myers), 75; In a Blue Room (Averbeck), 83; Cassie’s Sweet Berry Pie: A Civil War Story (Winnick), 76; The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Gaiman), 77; The Dog Who Belonged to No One (Hest), 78; The Dunderheads (Fleischman), 78; Earrings! (Viorst), 78; Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World (Burningham), 78; Farfallina & Marcel (Keller), 78; Feathers and Fools (Fox), 78; Fergus and the Night Demon: An Irish Ghost Story (Murphy), 79; The Good Luck Cat (Harjo), 80; Grandmother’s Garden (Archambault), 81; Great Joy (DiCamillo), 81; The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81; Hattie the Bad (Devlin), 81; The Have a Good Day Cafe´ (Park and Park), 81; Hondo and Fabian (McCarty)*, 82; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (McKissack), 82; I Hate English (Levine)*, 82; Ira Sleeps Over (Waber), 83; Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes), 83; McFig and McFly; A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (Drescher, McFig, and McFly), 85; Milo Armadillo (Fearnley), 85; My Name is Yoon (Recorvits), 86; Old Cricket (Wheeler), 87; A Picnic in October (Bunting), 74; Pictures from Our Vacation (Perkins), 89; Roller Coaster (Frazee)*, 89; Rosie and the Nightmares (Waechter), 89; Stellaluna (Cannon), 91; Stone Soup (Brown), 91; Strega Nona (dePaola), 91; The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson), 92; Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting), 92; They Came from the Bronx (Waldman), 93; Too Close Friends (Shen), 93; Trouble Gum (Cordell), 94; True Friends: A Tale from Tanzania (Kilaka), 94; The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Rachel), 94; The Umbrella Queen (Bridges), 94; Unlovable (Yaccarino), 95; When Charlie McButton Lost Power (Collins)*, 95; When Randolph Turned Rotten (Harper), 95; Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley)*, 96; The Wump World (Peet), 96; Your Move (Bunting), 97 Relaxed pace, 159 Dear Juno (Pak), 77; The Dog Who Belonged to No One (Hest), 78; Farfallina & Marcel (Keller), 78; The Fortune Tellers (Alexander), 79; Great Joy (DiCamillo), 81; Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen), 82; I, 179 Doko—The Tale of a Basket (Young), 82; Immi’s Gift (Littlewood), 83; The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Lasky), 83; Miss Rumphius (Cooney), 86; Painting the Wind (MacLachlan and MacLachlan), 88; A Picnic in October (Bunting), 74; Rosie and the Nightmares (Waechter), 89; See the Ocean (Condra), 90; The Snowy Day (Keats), 91; The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf), 91; Sweet, Sweet Memory (Woodson), 91; That’s Papa’s Way (Banks), 92; The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting), 95 Reluctant readers, 1; definite reading dislikes, 33; finding perfect book for, 2; genre-driven books, 2; plot summaries and, 3–4; subject headings, 2–3 Remembering Raquel (Vande Velde), 10, 63, 136 Rent Party Jazz (Miller), 89 Resolved ending story line, 159; Anansi the Spider (McDermott), 75; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barett), 76; The Dog Who Belonged to No One (Hest), 78; Dolphins on the Sand (Arnosky), 78; The Duchess of Whimsy: An Absolutely Delicious Fairy Tale (de Seve)*, 93; The Dunderheads (Fleischman), 78; The Emperor and the Kite (Yolen), 78; Farfallina & Marcel (Keller), 78; Fergus and the Night Demon: An Irish Ghost Story (Murphy), 79; Fly High Fly Low (Freeman)*, 79; The Funny Little Woman (Mosel), 79; The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Anderson), 81; Inch by Inch (Lionni)*, 83; It Could Always be Worse (Zemach), 83; Jennie’s Hat (Keats), 83; Kitten’s First Full Moon (Henkes)*, 83; The Little Matador (Hector)*, 84; A Mama for Owen (Bauer), 74; Milo Armadillo (Fearnley), 85; Ming Lo Moves the Mountain (Lobel), 85; Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard and Marshall), 85; Once Upon a Time (Daly), 88; Pezzettino (Lionni), 89; Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) (Heide)*, 89; The Retired Kid (Agee), 89; Small Florence— Piggy Pop Star! (Alexander)*, 90; Stone Soup (Brown), 91; Strega Nona (dePaola)*, 91; The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin), 92; Tea with Milk (Say)*, 92; Thank You, Mr Falker (Polacco), 92; Too Close Friends (Shen)*, 93; Toot and Puddle: Let it Snow (Hobbie)*, 93; True Friends: A Tale from Tanzania (Kilaka)*, 94; Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley), 94; When Randolph Turned Rotten (Harper)*, 95; Who’s in Rabbit’s House? A Retold Masai Tale (Aardema), 96; Who Wants to be a Poodle—I Don’t (Child), 96 The Retired Kid (Agee), 89 Revolver (Sedgwick), 137 180 Index Rich and famous story line, 159; King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (Wood), 83 Right Behind You (Giles), 137 Rikers High (Volponi), 138 Ring binders, 9–10 Robot Dreams (Varon), 138 Roller Coaster (Frazee), 89 Romantic tone, 159; Tadpole’s Promise (Willis), 95 Rosie and the Nightmares (Waechter), 89 Ruby’s Wish (Bridges), 90 Ruined—A Ghost Story (Morris), 139 The Rules of Survival (Werlin), 70, 139 Sad tone, 159; Almost to Freedom (Nelson), 74; The Cats in Krasinski Square (Hesse)*, 76; Cherry and Olive (Lacombe), 76; The Crystal Heart (Shepard)*, 77; A Day’s Work (Bunting), 74; Fly Away Home (Bunting)*, 79; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed), 79; The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum (Bernheimer), 80; Letting Go Swift River (Yolen)*, 83; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; Our Gracie Aunt (Woodson), 88; Pink and Say (Polacco), 89; Sweet, Sweet Memory (Woodson), 91; The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst)*, 92; Tight Times (Hazen), 93 Sample Procedure Proposal, 29 Saricks, Joyce, xiii–xiv The Savage (McKean), 140 Saving Zoe (Noel), 140 The Scarecrow’s Hat (Brown), 90 Scaredy Squirrel (Watt), 18, 37 Schooled (Korman), 141 School librarian collaboration with teachers, xiv Schools: sharing Book Hooks, 13; suggested reading lists, 13 The Schwa Was Here (Schusterman), 141 The Seashore Book (Zolotow), 90 Secret Saturdays (Maldonado), 142 Sedaris, David, The Seer of Shadows (Avi), 11, 24, 70, 142 See the Ocean (Condra), 90 Selvakumar Knew Better (Kroll), 90 Series characters/characterization, 159–60; George and Martha (Marshall), 79 Setting-oriented story line, 160; Bigmamma’s (Crews), 75; Black Cat (Myers), 75; The Great Blue House (Banks)*, 81; I Hate School (Willis), 82; Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman), 87; Owl Moon (Yolen), 88; The Seashore Book (Zolotow)*, 90 Seven Blind Mice (Young), 90 Sharing Book Hooks: ELA classroom low tech, 9; kinks specific to environment and application, 9; library bulletin board, 10–13; library low tech, 9–10; low-tech method, 8–13; online, 13–14; peer audience, 7; school low tech, 13; systematically, 7–8 Shark Girl (Bingham), 143 Sheila Rae, the Brave (Henkes), 90 Shelfari, 13 She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head (Lasky), 90 Shifty (Hazen), 143 Short stories, 38–39, 41; appeal terms, 17; Book Hooks, 25–27 Short story bibliographies, 25, 33, 39 Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Rumford), 90 Slam (Hornby), 68, 144 Slob (Potter), 144 Small Florence—Piggy Pop Star! (Alexander), 90 Smile (Telgemeier), 145 Smoky Night (Bunting), 90 Sneaky Weasel (Shaw), 90 Snowbound (Lowry), 18, 27 Snow (Rylant), 90 The Snowy Day (Keats), 91 So, What Is a Book Hook and How Do I Write One?, 24, 62 Somewhere in the World Right Now (Schuett), 91 Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (Juster), 91 Special books, xiii Spooky tone, 160; The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) (Paul), 77 Spuds (Hesse), 91 Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell), 91 Stark tone, 160; Owl Moon (Yolen), 88 Stately pace, 160; Crazy Horse’s Vision (Bruchac)*, 77; Emily (Bedard)*, 78; Encounter (Yolen), 78; Hattie and the Waves (Cooney)*, 81; They Came from the Bronx (Waldman)*, 93; The Wall (Bunting), 95 Stellaluna (Cannon), 91 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Roach), 2, 73 Stone Soup (Brown), 91 Stories: connection making, 20–21; crossconversation, 20–21; determining hook, 39; elements, 38, 40–41; illustrations enhancing appeal, 37; key features, 39 Storm Boy (Lewis), 91 Story line, 160; appeal terms, 152–53; terms for, Story Line table, 19–21 The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf), 91 The Stranger (Van Allsburg), 91 Strega Nona (dePaola), 91 Index Stuck in Neutral (Trueman), 145 Student Appeal List, 67–68 Students: appeal terms, 31–36, 38; determining hook of story, 39; disagreeing with reading recommendations, 8; likes and dislikes, 4, 8; motivation, 41; oversummarizing, 44; reading preferences, 33–34, 41, 43; sharing reading experiences, 7; similar books to read, 4; vocabulary to discuss reading experiences, 32; writing Book Hooks, 36–49; writing summaries, 43–46 Style: terms for, Suggested reading lists, 13 Summaries: characteristics of, 45; picture books, 44; writing, 43–44 Summary vs Appeal Terms, 58 Summary vs Appeal Terms activity, 17 Suspenseful tone, 69–70, 160; Almost to Freedom (Nelson), 74; Cassie’s Sweet Berry Pie: A Civil War Story (Winnick), 76; The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (Parry and Gilliland), 77; Doctor De Soto (Steig), 77; Dolphins on the Sand (Arnosky), 78; Fly High Fly Low (Freeman), 79; A Good Night for Freedom (Morrow), 74; Gorky Rises (Steig), 80; Hannah Is My Name (Yang), 81; How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story (Bunting), 82; Little Eagle (Hong), 84; Magnus at the Fire (Armstrong), 85; Owl Moon (Yolen), 88; The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Stroud), 88; Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), 94; The Stranger (Van Allsburg), 91; The Wolves in the Walls (Gaiman), 96; Your Move (Bunting), 97 Swamp Angel (Isaacs), 91 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson), 91 Sweet, Sweet Memory (Woodson), 91 Swimmy (Lionni), 91 SyFy book blog, 24 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig), 92 Tadpole’s Promise (Willis), 92 The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin), 92 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Paterson), 92 The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Johnston), 92 Teaching appeal terms, 1–4 Tea with Milk (Say), 92 The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst), 92 Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting), 92 Text engagement, 38–39, 41, 43 Thanks a LOT Emily Post! (Huget), 92 Thank You, Mr Falker (Polacco), 92 That’s Papa’s Way (Banks), 92 181 They Came from the Bronx (Waldman), 93 Those Shoes (Boelts), 93 Thought-provoking story line, 160; A Bad Case of the Stripes (Shannon)*, 74; Beatrice’s Goat (McBrier)*, 75; The Crystal Heart (Shepard), 77; Feathers and Fools (Fox)*, 78; Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams and Mohammed)*, 79; A Gift from the Sea (Banks), 74; A Good Night for Freedom (Morrow)*, 74; Max’s Words (Banks), 85; Me, All Alone, at the End of the World (Anderson), 85; Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (Barett), 87; Pezzettino (Lionni), 89; Pink and Say (Polacco)*, 89; Seven Blind Mice (Young), 90; Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (Bunting), 92; Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley), 94; The Wall (Bunting), 95; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox), 96; Wings (Myers), 96; The Wretched Stone (Van Allsburg)*, 96 The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East (Kimmel), 93 Through Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan), 93 Thumbnails of book jackets, 10 Tight Times (Hazen), 93 Timeless tone, 160; Basho and the River Stones (Myers), 75; A Blue So Blue (Dumont)*, 74; The Emperor and the Kite (Yolen)*, 78; Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky)*, 79; A Gift from the Sea (Banks)*, 74; Great Joy (DiCamillo)*, 81; Hattie and the Waves (Cooney), 81; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (McKissack), 82; I, Doko—The Tale of a Basket (Young), 82; The Magic Pillow (Demi), 85; My Father’s Boat (Garland)*, 86; Old Turtle and the Broken Truth (Wood), 87; That’s Papa’s Way (Banks), 92 Tin Lizzie (Drummond), 93 Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora), 93 Tone, 160; appeal terms, 5, 152 Tone table, 19–21 Too Close Friends (Shen), 93 Too Many Tamales (Soto), 93 Toot and Puddle: Let it Snow (Hobbie), 93 Tops & Bottoms (Stevens), 93 Traces (Fox), 93 Tragic story line, 160; Hiroshima No Pika (Maruki), 82 The Treasure (Shulevitz), 94 Trouble Gum (Cordell), 94 True Friends: A Tale from Tanzania (Kilaka), 94 The True Meaning of Smekday (Rex), 146 Tunnels (Roderick), 68 The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Rachel), 94 24 Girls in Days (Bradley), 98 182 Index Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley), 94 Twenty-one Elephants (Bidner), 94 Twilight Comes Twice (Fletcher), 94 Twisted (Anderson), 70, 146 Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg), 94 The Umbrella Queen (Bridges), 94 Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop (King), 94 Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror (Priestley), 147 Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding (Look), 94 Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), 94 Unhurried pace, 160; Amelia’s Road (Altman), 74; Angel Child, Dragon Child (Surat), 75; A Band of Angels—A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (Hopkinson), 74; Basket Moon (Ray), 75; In a Blue Room (Averbeck), 83; Cassie’s Sweet Berry Pie: A Civil War Story (Winnick), 76; Coming On Home Soon (Woodson), 77; A Day’s Work (Bunting), 74; On the Day You Were Born (Frasier), 87; Fly High Fly Low (Freeman), 79; Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O’Keefe (Lasky), 79; The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum (Bernheimer), 80; Grandfather’s Journey (Say), 80; Grandmama’s Pride (Birtha), 80; Grandpa’s Teeth (Clement), 81; The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (Cherry), 81; Hannah Is My Name (Yang), 81; Hondo and Fabian (McCarty), 82; The Little Yellow Leaf (Berger), 84; Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken (DiCamillo), 84; The Memory String (Bunting), 85; The Milkman’s Boy (Hall), 85; Mister Seahorse (Carle), 86; Naming Liberty (Yolen), 87; One Green Apple (Bunting), 88; The Orange Shoes (Noble), 88; The Other Side (Woodson), 88; The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind (Zolotow), 89; Rabbit’s Gift (Shannon), 89; Rent Party Jazz (Miller), 89; Snow (Rylant), 90; Spuds (Hesse), 91; The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Johnston), 92; The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Viorst), 92; Through Grandpa’s Eyes (MacLachlan), 93; Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora), 93; True Friends: A Tale from Tanzania (Kilaka), 94; Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding (Look), 94; Unlovable (Yaccarino), 95; Urso Brunov and the White Emperor (Jacques), 95; Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz and Kurtz)*, 95; Who’s in Rabbit’s House? A Retold Masai Tale (Aardema), 96; Zen Ghosts (Muth), 97 Unlovable (Yaccarino), 95 Unwind (Shusterman), 24, 63, 70, 147 Upbeat tone, 160; Apples to Oregon (Hopkinson), 75; The Duchess of Whimsy: An Absolutely Delicious Fairy Tale (de Seve), 93; The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster)*, 82; Lily Brown’s Paintings (Johnson), 84; Madeline (Bemelmans)*, 84; Music, Music for Everyone (Williams), 86; Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman)*, 87; A Picnic in October (Bunting)*, 74; The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind (Zolotow), 89; Roller Coaster (Frazee), 89; Rosie and the Nightmares (Waechter), 89; Who Wants to be a Poodle—I Don’t (Child), 96 Uptown (Collier), 95 Urban, 160 Urso Brunov and the White Emperor (Jacques), 95 Victor and Christabel (Mathers), 95 Violence, 160 Visiting Day (Woodson), 95 Visit (Myers), 18, 27, 39, 44, 46, 49; what hooks readers into, 42 Vivid characters/characterization, 160–61 Apples to Oregon (Hopkinson), 75; A Band of Angels— A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers (Hopkinson), 74; Batwings and the Curtain of Night (Davol), 75; Black Cowboy Wild Horses: A True Story (Lester)*, 76; The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Rogers), 76; Dear Juno (Pak)*, 77; Dear Vampa (Collins), 77; Doctor De Soto (Steig), 77; Dust Devil (Isaacs), 78; The Giant Carrot (Peck), 80; Goin’ Someplace Special (McKissack), 80; Good Enough to Eat (Cole), 80; Greedy Zebra (Hadithi)*, 81; Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life (Nolen), 82; Inch by Inch (Lionni), 83; Love and Roast Chicken (Knutson), 84; Mrs Katz and Tush (Polacco), 86; The Night Eater (Juan), 87; Our Gracie Aunt (Woodson)*, 88; Pancakes for Supper (Isaacs), 88; Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley (Blabey)*, 88; Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone), 89; The Polar Express (Van Allsburg), 89; See the Ocean (Condra), 90; Storm Boy (Lewis), 91; The Stranger (Van Allsburg), 91; Swamp Angel (Isaacs), 91; The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Johnston), 92; Tops & Bottoms (Stevens)*, 93; Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop (King), 94; Urso Brunov and the White Emperor (Jacques), 95; Young Mouse and Elephant—An East African Folktale (Farris), 96; Zomo the Rabbit (McDermott)*, 97 Vizzini, Ned, 24 The Vocabulary of Appeal, 4, 17 Voss—How I Come to America and Am Hero, Mostly (Ives), 148 VOYA, xiii Index Waiting for Benjamin: A Story About Autism (Altman), 95 The Wall (Bunting), 95 Water Hole Waiting (Kurtz and Kurtz), 95 We Were Here (De La Pena), 148 The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting), 95 Well-developed characters/characterization, 19, 161; Brave Irene (Steig)*, 76; Cherry and Olive (Lacombe), 76; Chrysanthemum (Henkes), 76; Crazy Horse’s Vision (Bruchac), 77; Fly High Fly Low (Freeman), 79; The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Lasky)*, 83; Lily Brown’s Paintings (Johnson)*, 84; Owen (Henkes), 88; Sheila Rae, the Brave (Henkes), 90; Small Florence—Piggy Pop Star! (Alexander), 90 Well-drawn characters/characterization, 161; Earrings! (Viorst)*, 78; Little Eagle (Hong), 84; Martha Speaks (Meddaugh), 85; Old Henry (Blos)*, 87; The Paper Crane (Bang)*, 88; Peggony Po: A Whale of a Tale (Pinkney), 88; Pink and Say (Polacco), 89; The Poodle Who Barked at the Wind (Zolotow)*, 89; The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf), 91; Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson), 91; Two Bad Ants (Van Allsburg), 94; Wings (Myers), 96; Wolf! (Bloom), 96 Well-thought-out vocabulary, 17 The Well (Whitten), 149 What Appeals to You?, 32 What Happened to Cass McBride? (Giles), 149 What Should I Read Next?, 17, 73 When Charlie McButton Lost Power (Collins), 95 When Randolph Turned Rotten (Harper), 95 When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry (Bang), 95 When Turtle Grew Feathers (Tingle), 95 Whole-group appeal terms, 18–19 Who’s in Rabbit’s House? A Retold Masai Tale (Aardema), 96 Who Wants to be a Poodle—I Don’t (Child), 96 Why Is the Sky Blue? (Grindley), 96 Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Fox), 96 Wings (Myers), 96 Winston the Book Wolf (McGee and Beck), 25, 151 Wintergirls (Anderson), 150 Wolf! (Bloom), 96 The Wolves in the Walls (Gaiman), 96 Workshops for ELA department, 15–16 The Wretched Stone (Van Allsburg), 96 Writing: Book Hooks, 22, 25, 39; ELA teachers, 22; skill, 38; study of craft of, 39; summaries, 43–44; teaching to students, 36–49 The Wump World (Peet), 96 Yesterday I Had the Blues (Frame), 96 Yoko’s Paper Cranes (Wells), 96 Yoko (Wells), 96 You (Benoit), 150 Young Mouse and Elephant—An East African Folktale (Farris), 96 Your Move (Bunting), 97 Zen Ghosts (Muth), 97 Zen Ties (Muth), 97 Zomo the Rabbit (McDermott), 97 183 This page intentionally left blank About the Author OLGA M NESI is a library coordinator for the Office of Library Services in the New York City Department of Education Prior to accepting this position in September 2011, she was the school librarian at Joseph B Cavallaro I.S 281 for eleven years She received a BA in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo Her Master of Library Science is from Queens College in Queens, New York, and she has a Master of Science in School Building Leadership from Mercy College in New York Her article “It’s All About Text Appeal” appeared in the August 2010 issue of School Library Journal “A Vocabulary to Discuss Reading: Beyond ‘Interesting’ ” appeared in the March 2012 issue of School Library Monthly “The Transformative Power of Care” appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of Knowledge Quest ... Teaching of Appeal Terms and Book Hooks 17 Broadening the Vocabulary of Appeal Selecting Appeal Terms to Teach Introductory Appeal Terms Activities The Vocabulary of Appeal What Should I Read Next? The. .. Getting Beyond “Interesting” seamlessly with the text and enhance the appeal of the story elements Not only they help tell the story, they also contribute greatly to the feel of the book Readers...Getting Beyond “Interesting” This page intentionally left blank Getting Beyond “Interesting” Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading Olga M Nesi