Melinda, a strong, sarcastic teenager, naviagtes us through her first year of high school, not speaking any more than she absolutely must to anyone--except us, her audience.
(And just for fun, Laurie Halse Anderson's Catalyst takes place at the same school just a few years later, when Melinda is a junior or senior.)
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A wonderful fantasy for young adult audiences (though I still delight in reading it). There's romance, adventure, a quest--what else can you ask for?
Each book in this trilogy is as good as, if not better than, the previous. Read the first one first, and order the last one with the second so that you don't have to wait for it!
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A wonderful fantasy for young adult audiences (though I still delight in reading it). There's romance, adventure, a quest--what else can you ask for?
My own prolonged story in reading this book:
I saw this on the school library shelf when I was nine, and thought it looked like a great book, but nine was way too young to bite into this book, so I decided to look it up in a few years. By 6th grade, the book had been lost or stolen from the library. I randomly checked bookstores and other libraries until the end of high school, to no avail [dramatic sigh]. In college, I was looking for a book for a class and happened to walk right by The Darkangel in the YA section of the university library. I took it home and read it (I was so excited!), and the next day, author's name in hand, I went to the bookstore where I worked and asked them to order me the whole trilogy.
(Each book is as good as, if not better than, the previous.)
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Ralph Fletcher's Writing Workshop is a relief to those who have tried writing workshops before and become completely overwhelmed. Don't give up on the idea without reading this!
Fletcher makes organizing and doing a writing workshop in the classroom far more manageable than anyone else I've read. Don't skip what others have written (Nancie Atwell comes to mind), but don't feel overwhelmed by their workshop styles, either. (I'm convinced Atwell doesn't sleep.)
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