Literature, the Child, and the Teen Discussion Sessions and Leaders
Participants are encouraged to read all of the titles in their assigned discussion groups to ensure the most rewarding sharing of ideas.
Group I “Have you got any good books?”
Trial: a novel by Jennifer Bryant
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
Smiler’s Bones by Peter Lerangis
Iqbal: A Novel by Francesco D’Adamo
Group II Good Historical Fiction Takes You There!
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley
Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells
Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
Bone by Bone by Tony Johnston
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan
Group III Growing Up
When I was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis
Leaving the Nest by Mordicai Gerstein
Russell Sprouts by Johanna Hurwitz
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
What Do Fish Have to do with Anything by Avi
Group IV Assessing Personality, Preference and You in a World of Mass Media
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
Awakening (Chasing Yesterday)
by Robin Wasserman
First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Finding Alice by Carlson Melody
Group V Fairy Tales and Fantasy
The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise known as The Fawg Pin by Donna Jo Napoli
Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney
The Frog Prince retold Kathy-Jo Wargin
Beauty and the Beast by Max Eilenberg
The Fairy Tale Dectectives by Michael Buckley
Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Group VI Boys are Readers Too
Standard Hero Behavior by John David Anderson
Even More Parts by Tedd Arnold
Shark! True Stories about Sharks and the Sea
by Peter Benchley
The Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
Shredderman: Secret Identity
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Leepike Ridge by Nathan Wilson
Standford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee
Discussion Leaders
KAREN BECKNELL
Lamphere Schools retiree, MAME member
BARBARA CLARK
Birmingham Public Schools
ANGIE KIDD
Baldwin Public Library
DAN KRAMER
Wayne State University
ANNA McGUIRE
Farmington Community Library
JILL WEBB
Farmington Community Library
