Grade 7 Genre Study
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now By Deborah Hopkinson Follow one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit Galveston, Texas, pulling houses off their foundations, and what city residents did to rescue one another.
Faker By Gordon Korman
s how the trick works: His dad gets him into l of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, d makes connections. Soon, there’s the con, s dad suckers the other parents into giving him one of his schemes. Once the money’s in the his sister, and their dad go on the run . . . until somewhere else and start again.
Trey ’ s grown up around his father ’ s schemes while living on the run. But when Trey starts making friends at school, he doesn ’ t want to leave again. How can he tell his father he ’ s done running?
es his father when he says no one’s getting all, these parents have money to spare.
starting to get tired of running . . . and lying . . . having a friend for longer than a few months. you get your family to stop lying when your d on it?
IT’S NO FUN BEING A SON ON THE RUN .
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Good Different By Meg Eden Kuyatt A story celebrating the things that make us different. Follow as Selah figures out who she is and embraces who she is and that different doesn ’ t mean damaged.
They Call Me Güero By David Bowles This slim verse novel reveals the rich inner life of a nerdy, light-skinned Mexican American boy and his resilient family.
In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. Güero is also a nerd—reader, gamer, musician—who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Watch out for Joanna! She’s tough as nails. Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool. “[A] masterful novel-in-poems rooted in generations of culture, geography, and story.” —Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong, creators of The Poetry Friday Anthology series
But trusting in his family’s traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope. He writes poetry.
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The Thing About Luck Written by Cynthia Kadohata & illustrated by Julia Kuo While fighting against a string of bad luck plaguing her family of Japanese American migrant farmers, Summer learns that she ’ s in charge of her own happiness.
EEMS THAT IF SUMMER’S FAMILY DIDN’T HAVE BAD LUCK, d have no luck at all. But Summer, faced with impending disasters at every wonders if it’s possible to make your own luck. about to find out. . . .
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