It's been so busy in the IMC these last few weeks that I have had very little time to work on new books. There are a number of new nofiction (information) books so why don't I just list them. Then next week you can come to the New Books section and take a look for yourself.For our 6th grade social students (anad any other interested history students) we have new books on the Middle Ages -
Medieval Society
Science and Technology in the Middle Ages
Places of Worship in the Middle Ages
The Life of a Knight
Life in a Medieval Monastery
Medieval Projects You Can Do!
Medieval Projects You Can Do!
For 7th grade and other career minded students, we have Career Ideas fo Kids Who Like Art. \This book includes many art-related careers that you may not have considered like Actor, Chef, Interior Designer, Museum Curator, and Photojournalist.
For the persuasive speech topics that 8th grade researches, we now have Standardized Testing in Schools and Drunk Driving. The Drunk Driving book is particularly interesting because if actually assists with writing a critical esaay on this subject. The book contains lot of research and several examples of of the written essays.
For biography fans, we have new this week: Julius Caesar, Vladimir Lenin, rule of Russia in the 952and Alex Haley, the author of Roots,
For the fiction fans, we have 2 new historical books: Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons, by Ann Rinaldi, about being the first Black women, AND Worlds Afire, by Paul B. Janeczko, a noted poet who tells the story of a circus fire told in verse. Gordon Korman's new book Schooled is about what happens when a boy who is home-schooled by his hippie grandmother all his life has to deal with public school for the firsr time. Finally a donation from Mrs. Foellmers's boys, This Side of Paradise - part scifi, part horror where moving to a perfectly controlled town leads to danger for members of the Barrett family and possible cloning.
That's it for this week. More new books next week.
