Today we met with the Gordon Head Middle School library club using the video-conferencing BlueJeans program. Thanks to Alex DeMedeiros and Lindsay Ross for helping your students to engage with us about books. It was time well spent.
I am going to list the book titles, authors and genres we heard about today in case any of our readers want to investigate them further.
Favourite Books
Vampire Night (manga)
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Carrie, Stephen King
A Handful of Time, Kit Pearson (and many other Kit Pearson titles - she is a well loved author)
Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
Divergent series, Veronica Roth
Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins
The Hobbit, J. R. Tolkien
Wing, Eric Walters
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Wendy Mass (and many other Wendy Mass titles)
Percy Jackson and the Olympian series, Rick Riordan
The Fault in our Stars, John Green (and many other John Green titles)
Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard
Maximum Ride, James Patterson (and many other James Patterson titles)
I may have missed some . . . but the students will be blogging about their favourite titles so stay tuned . . .
Also, the students mentioned some genres and themes that are of interest to them including, fantasy, manga, action adventure, realistic books , books with opportunities for emotional engagement and empathy. There was a theme of dystopia and dying quite prevalent in there too.
There were several other PDPP Posse People there so, what did I miss? Please comment to add your thoughts about our virtual book club, to correct me (!) or to add suggestions for future gatherings. thanks!
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