Authors of the Month
Authors who have birthdays this month include these:
July 12 -- Joan Bauer, author of Hope Was Here, Stand Tall (a seventh grade whole-class book), and more. Warm, funny stories that deal with real problems.
July 21 -- Ernest Hemingway -- famous, famous. Try The Old Man and the Sea.
July 22 -- S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders, another seventh grade whole-class book, Tex, That Was Then, This is Now, etc.
July 26 -- Jan Berenstain -- Read a Berenstain Bears book to a little brother or sister!
July 28 -- Beatix Potter -- Sit down again with that younger child to read any of her books -- maybe Peter Rabbit or Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle Duck, or just read her books on your own!
July 29 -- Sharon Creech -- You might read Walk Two Moons in class in seventh grade. She has lots of good realistic fiction novels.
July 31 -- Lynne Reid Banks -- If you haven't read the Indian in the Cupboard books, you should. Or try some of her other books. I, Houdini is "The life-story of a highly intelligent hamster, whose determination never to be imprisoned leads him into every kind of comic and dangerous scrape - and out again."
And here's a description of The Fairy Rebel from Banks' official web site: "When Tiki, a feisty rose-fairy, gets earthed on Jan's toe, they strike up a forbidden friendship that links the fairy and the human worlds. When she gives Jan magic help to have a baby, the tyrant Fairy Queen steps in - with terrifying results."
July 31 -- J.K. Rowling -- Enough said.
