By their very nature, verse novels seem more introspective. I appreciate the sensitivity to the characters which are often found in verse novels. I loved this book! As a genre, verse novels appeal to me because poems employ language in a way that astounds me with its beauty, unique word choice, exceptional description and gorgeous figurative language. Triptych: Thirteen Year Olds Discover Hidden Telep.Triptych - Developing in One's Own Time.Triptych: Learning Lessons from Grandparents.Integrated Unit: "Introduction to the Library".Author/ Illustrator Study: David Wiesner.Integrated Unit: Second Grade: Dinosaurs.Biography:Ğric Carle was born in Syracuse, New.Meeting the Literature Challenge: A case study bas.Literature Circle Reflection- The City of Ember.Thoughts on The Book Thief Literature Circle.Getting Lost with Alice in Her Adventures in Wonde.Movie Review: The Indian in the Cupboard.Literature Circle Reflection: Home of the Brave.Circle: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate Literature Circle Reflection - The City of Ember.Precise, highly accessible language evokes a wide range of emotions and simultaneously tells an initiation story. Kek endures a mixture of failures (he uses the clothes washer to clean dishes) and victories (he lands his first paying job), but one thing remains constant: his ardent desire to learn his mother's fate. Prefaced by an African proverb, each section of the book marks a stage in the narrator's assimilation, eloquently conveying how his initial confusion fades as survival skills improve and friendships take root. An onslaught of new sensations greets Kek ("This cold is like claws on my skin," he laments), and ordinary sights unexpectedly fill him with longing (a lone cow in a field reminds him of his father's herd when he looks in his aunt's face, "I see my mother's eyes/ looking back at me"). The boy has traveled by "flying boat" to Minnesota in winter to live with relatives who fled earlier. After witnessing the murders of his father and brother, then getting separated from his mother in an African camp, Kek alone believes that his mother has somehow survived. In her first stand-alone book, Applegate (the Animorphs series) effectively uses free verse to capture a Sudanese refugee's impressions of America and his slow adjustment.
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