Booktalk presented by Jennifer WhitleyTanglewood School Librarian

Teenage Superheroes?!Experiences in our young lives can

make a difference to many others in the world.

Charleston, SC Pre-Civil WarFirst Person

1830sHistorical Fiction

Hetty Handful GrimkeSarah Grimke

Berlin, Germany World War TwoExcerpt

1940sHistorical Fiction

Liesel MemmingerNarrated by Death

Britain & France World War TwoDescription

1940sHistorical Fiction

Maddie & Queenie

Cambodia Vietnam ConflictDescription

1970sMemoir

Arn Chorn-Pond

Uganda Kony’s LRAExcerpt

2000sHistorical Fiction

Ugandan Boys

Pakistan Taliban’s Impact on GirlsFirst Person

2010sBiography

Malala Yousafzai

If You Like What You Heard, Try . . .

The Power of One by Bruce Courtenay, Ballantine, 1996

Dear Miss Breed by Joann Oppenheim, Scholastic Non-Fiction, 2006Courageous Teen Resisters by Ann Byers, Enslow Publishing, 2010

Battle Dress by Amy Efauw, Speak, 2010Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal—

the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, FlashPoint, 2012

Watch Turn on AMC, Sundays at 9pmOffice of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education

www.educationenvoy.org More on the Cambodian Genocide

http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocideSlavery Refresher? Try John Green’s Crash Course:  US History #13  Slavery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajn9g5Gsv98RTaliban vs. Women? Try Third World Traveler’s Newsletter

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Life_Death_ThirdWorld/Taliban_WarWomen.html

Feel free to make comments on the back of the survey!

Booktalk Styles:

•Excerpt (a portion of the text is read aloud): The Book Thief and Never Fall Down•Description (personal explanation of the story): Code Name Verity and The War Brothers: The Graphic Novel•First Person (character voiced rendition of the story): The Invention of Wings and I Am Malala

Teenage Superheroes?No doubt about it—that’s you! Thanks for listening and participating.