I cannot believe the year is almost over! It's crazy how fast time passes at school. In the media center we have been working on getting all the books back in and planning for inventory. Can you imagine how much fun it is going to be to scan all of our 10,000 + books?
What are you planning to read this summer? For school, I am currently working on your summer reading list. And for my graduate school stuff, I have a GIGANTIC list for an Adolescent Literature class I will be taking at UGA. If you are bored and want something to look at, stop by the MC and I'll let you read over the list. I have already started collecting and reading some of the books.
The first two I started with were already on the list inside my brain label "I can't believe I haven't read this yet". I read Stargirl and The Giver. I liked them both and found them unusual and interesting, but didn't love either.
Stargirl was a cute comment on school, the individual and cliques. I really liked the characters and look forward to reading Love, Stargirl, which Hannah D-G told me was written from Stargirl's POV.
The Giver was a little more complicated for me. I LOVED the book until the ending. I thought it was well written and had an interesting concept that reminded me of 1984 but didn't like the vague ending. I really thought that Jonas and Gabriel were dead based on the ending (am I a pessimist?). Jenny A. told me that Jonas is later featured in The Messenger, so I guess they don't die, but that's really what I got from it. Have you read The Giver? What did you think? Am I the only person that thought they were dead?
Did you love or hate either of these books?
Talk to you soon!
Mrs. Hinger
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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