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The book "was challenged due to profanity, sexual content and violence." [13] However, according to Dave Jenkinson, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, the University of Manitoba, "Mac's authentic treatment of her subject matter carries through to the book's conclusion… Charmed is the gold standard of what hi-lo titles can be. Highly ...
But he remains best known for his high-interest, low-vocabulary ("hi-lo") books for struggling and reluctant readers. Paul was a founding member and past president of the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, & Performers. [5] [6]
They soon find themselves captured by Skinwalkers seeking revenge. When angry villagers attack the Skinwalker camp, Claire finds herself in a difficult situation and with the need to choose a side. This is a hi-lo (high interest, low vocabulary) book for reluctant teen readers published by High Interest Publishing (HIP Books). [1]
Her book, I Won’t Read and You Can’t Make Me: Reaching Reluctant Teen Readers [6] is a compilation of practical strategies and techniques developed over decades of teaching low level readers. Her most recent book is a collection of personal essays, Over 70 and I Don't Mean MPH: Reflections on the Gift of Longevity. [7]
Blasingame currently edits the "Books for Adolescents" pages of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. In 2009 and 2010, Accelerated Reader listed the first 15 titles of the Bluford Series in the “top 40” books for both middle and high school struggling readers. Over 50,000 reviews for Bluford Series titles are available now on ...
The extraordinary real-life story of a friendship between a reformed ex-art forger and the police officer who arrested him has emerged in Jeffrey Archer's latest crime novel An Eye For An Eye, out ...
The American Library Association named Finding My Voice the Best Book for Reluctant Readers in 1992. [12] In 1993, Finding My Voice received the Young People's Literature Award from the Friends of American Writers. [13] The International Reading Association placed it on their 1994 Young Adults' Choices list. [14]
The book explores her childhood growing up with immigrant parents in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Bach has also written several young adult novels for Lorimer's high/low series. Killer Drop (2017) and Femme (2015) are part of the SideStreets series of "edgy high/low fiction for teen reluctant readers."