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Tough Stuff: Books to Get Kids Talking About Life Issues| Focus On
A compilation of recommended titles that work well as vehicles for book discussion. The books cover a variety of tough life issues and offer even reluctant readers a chance to discuss characters and their motivations, make connections to plot and setting, and craft some sophisticated arguments and analysis
War Horse
Gr 5–9—Transforming a book into an app begins with a solid story and War Horse (Egmont, 1982) is that...
Poems by Heart
Gr 7 Up—The stickiness of this app isn't in the modest selection of well-known poems, or the serviceable narrators who will read them aloud to you...
Frankenstein
Gr 8 Up—The ideal audience for this app would be readers who couldn't get enough of Darren Shan's horror series, moved on to Kenneth Oppel's This Dark Endeavor, were drawn to Rick Yancy's "Monstrumologist" books, and plan to read that classic horror touchstone, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...
Skulls
Gr 6 Up—Skulls is an elegant, fascinating app, uniquely shaped by the strong essays of Simon Winchester, the stunning photographs of Nick Mann, and the quirky audio notes of skull collector Alan Dudley...
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