New Releases by Novel Units

About the author -- Characters -- Background information -- Initiating activities -- Five sections -- Post-reading discussion questions -- Post-reading extension activities -- Assessment -- Scoring rubric -- Glossary.

Provides student-centered activities for reading, teaching and writing, including comprehension quizzes, a final exam and answer keys.

Activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Missing May by Cynthia Rylant.

Describes suggested activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Where the red fern grows.

From the author of the number one "New York Times "bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie "comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie s five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his meaningless life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: Why was I here? A moving and profound contemporary fable, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is an important reminder of the interconnectedness of us all.

Slowly, David opened his eyes and looked around the horizon, wincing again with the new movement. There was nothing sticking above the water as far as he could see. He was alone. Fourteen-year-old David Alspeth intended only to fulfill his uncle''s last wish when he set sail in the Frog, but when a savage storm slams the tiny sailboat, David is stranded. No wind. No radio. Little water. Seven cans of food. And the storm is just the first challenge David must face... An American Association Best Book for Young Adults Book jacket.

Activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Othello by William Shakespeare.

Suggests activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

A National Book Award Nominee, A Publishers Weekly Best Children''s Book of 2001. In this debut novel, a young girl describes her family''s bittersweet experience in the United States after their emigration from Korea. Four years old on the flight to California, Young Ju concludes that America is heaven. But when they arrive, they are weighed down by the difficulty of learning English, their insular family life, and the traditions of the country they left behind.

Suggests actvities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.