tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84568084430925641632024-02-21T23:30:18.174-08:00The Subgenre QueenThe Subgenre Queen is a place devoted to all the books that fall under the umbrella of other genres- Here the focus is on creating recommended reading lists of escapist literature that are read purely for enjoyment.Subgenre Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907672875839278194noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456808443092564163.post-49356664355194439812012-05-09T09:26:00.000-07:002012-05-09T10:01:27.567-07:00Math Literature<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We generally think of math and literacy as different subjects however there are many interesting books that include math concepts. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">2 x 2 = Boo! : A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">by </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Leedy, Loreen. Holiday House, 1995. Grades 2-4</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Halloween characters including bats and witches introduce the multiplication table. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Edgar Allan Poe's Pie Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">by Patrick Lewis. Harcourt Children's Books, 2012. Grades 3-7</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">by Wendy Lichtman. Greenwillow Books, 2007. Sequel </span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Do the Math: the Writing on the Wall. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Grades 6-8</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">In California thirteen-year-old Tess uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life including her changing friendships, discovering a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">classmate stole a test and a investigating suspicious death.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the third Frankie Pickle book Frankie must use his division skills to overcome the Mathematical Menace when he is transported by his math quiz to Arithmecca, a world filled with number monsters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">After fifteen-year-old math genius Miranda Bloom is forced to plan the Notting Hill Independent School for the Gifted’s Snowflake Gala, she has to find a date because her stepsister is going with her crush. Sequel: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Geek Abroad.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-themecolor: text1;">How Much is a Million? </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">by David M. Schwartz. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">HarperCollins, 1985. Grades K-3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The Mathematical Magician Marvelossissimo helps a group of children visualize with some amazing examples how much is a million really is. For example, if you wanted to count to a million, it would take 23 days! A similar approached is explored in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Million Dots</b> by Andrew Clements. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Island of The <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Unknowns </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by Benedict Carey. Amulet Books, <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">2009. Grades 6-10. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The summer before seventh grade Lady Di and Tom Jones solve math equations to crack a code from their beloved math tutor who is one of the many people that mysteriously disappearing from their small island. Previously published under the title <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Unknowns.</b></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-themecolor: text1;">Marvelous Math: a Book of Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins. </span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Simon & Schuster, 1997. Grades 3-7</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">A collection of poems about math topics such as fractions, time and Pythagoras by a variety of poets. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">One Grain of Rice: A Mathmatical Folktale </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by Demi.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scholastic Press, 1997. Grades 2-4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Bake Sale</em></strong> by Sara Varon. First Second, 2011. <span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grades 3-8. </span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Baker's Dozen </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">by Dan Andreasen. Henry Holt, 2007. Preschool- K.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this new series Kylie Carson starts out as a quiet fourth-grader who is being bullied by popular mean-girl Meredith. As a new student Kylie is an outsider with almost no friends until her drama teacher proposes that Kylie start a cupcake club at school. Soon Kylie and her three new friends deal with the bullying while becoming a baking success. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="anchor-review-award"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="anchor-full-review"></a>T</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">hree recipes are included at the end of the novel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When thirteen-year-old Penny moves from New York City to the small seaside town of Hogs Hollow where her mother opens a cupcake bakery Penny hides in the shop and tries to avoid talking about her parents separation and the popular mean girl who is pulling daily pranks on her. Over time Penny makes friends, gets her first boyfriend and accepts her new life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">While her mom is preparing to open a cupcake shop twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of the world outside her home state Oregon when her best friend tells her about a baking contest where the finalist wins a trip to New York City for a bake-off. Cupcake recipes included. Sequel:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sprinkles and Secrets.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">In Paris, Elephant is a pastry chef who has </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Elephant by making delicious crumble jumble </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Save the Cupcake! (Confectionately Yours #1)</em></strong> By Lisa <span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Papademetriou.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">During summer vacation in a New Jersey beach town, twelve-year-old Polly Madassa is a romantic determined to play matchmaker while making deliveries for her parents' bakery. Very funny!</span></div>
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</div>Subgenre Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907672875839278194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456808443092564163.post-32792941747299560602012-02-10T08:44:00.001-08:002012-02-10T08:45:02.963-08:00Coming Soon- Sweet StoriesSubgenre Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907672875839278194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456808443092564163.post-71568890520497506372011-12-21T04:56:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:12:30.827-08:00Novels Reinterpreted as a Graphic Novel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilF1kVJZhn_5SKGqQfB7LJMrwzwNhPNpgBz_pbd5xjw3UTu53hjJsn8ul31AqlkDEemJXMKUf8JdgMi2XBJVyz_Hn5Bd56b4Y7dMEwHruHA-M090rbP_LTyLBXk1NfM7TlnQksWp6hvJz6/s1600/img105483.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilF1kVJZhn_5SKGqQfB7LJMrwzwNhPNpgBz_pbd5xjw3UTu53hjJsn8ul31AqlkDEemJXMKUf8JdgMi2XBJVyz_Hn5Bd56b4Y7dMEwHruHA-M090rbP_LTyLBXk1NfM7TlnQksWp6hvJz6/s200/img105483.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Twilight: the graphic novel</strong>. By Yong-bin Kim. Yen Press, 2010. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A manga-style graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular "Twilight" series. In the first volume when seventeen-year-old Bella moves to Forks, Washington she falls in love with Edward Cullen.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is adapted for young readers with action and humor while staying true to the original tale about Jonathan Harker who travels to Transylvania and meets the evil Count Dracula. </span><br />
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</div>Subgenre Queenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04907672875839278194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8456808443092564163.post-47131007884764601192011-12-02T09:29:00.001-08:002011-12-15T13:02:17.439-08:00Humor for Wimpy Kids Fans.<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border: currentColor;"><div style="border: currentColor;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">The Diary of a Wimpy Kid</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> series by Jeff Kinney has turned many students, especially boys, into readers again. They have discovered that books can be a fun form of escapism and it is essential that once students have finished the hilarious series that they find other humorous books. This list will appeal to both female and male readers. Many of the books have comic illustrations mixed in. </span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border: currentColor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border: currentColor;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8O-jy1XLQG7tnEsJ8jsgDEXXDcG_djgSOXMgn2rszVH_vCBJ1MLxQvR5m9RiM_6Ji9070-k3jm1MXObOj-QxJaNr_bgo3i_I0A5tRaXkTI-G-xyslB7rnLQRUP33LA_d7xY0ywn3Zc5ds/s1600/indian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 160px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 132px;"><img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8O-jy1XLQG7tnEsJ8jsgDEXXDcG_djgSOXMgn2rszVH_vCBJ1MLxQvR5m9RiM_6Ji9070-k3jm1MXObOj-QxJaNr_bgo3i_I0A5tRaXkTI-G-xyslB7rnLQRUP33LA_d7xY0ywn3Zc5ds/s200/indian.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: large;">Alexie, Sherman. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Little, Brown, 2007. ISBN Grades 8-10</span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border: currentColor;"><div style="border: currentColor;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: large;">Through his humorous diary entries and comic style illustrations fifteen-year-old Arnold “Junior” Spirit tells how he decided to be the first Indian on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend the local public school.</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border: currentColor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Sequel: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Darth Paper Strikes Back.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2lYHtJhi_wWFZQBkmp4wg1XXaV8-t8-n-mkKz7hwCgnKQbsl4b2nzMcrmGET2aCn_QeLw4x4BPDyzxSnQfWA_eW-tUHXdX-h3EBwPlBgqKpWyRE6Opt68nQgMTX4ppYR8SYPxb7F4YOo4/s1600/untitled.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2lYHtJhi_wWFZQBkmp4wg1XXaV8-t8-n-mkKz7hwCgnKQbsl4b2nzMcrmGET2aCn_QeLw4x4BPDyzxSnQfWA_eW-tUHXdX-h3EBwPlBgqKpWyRE6Opt68nQgMTX4ppYR8SYPxb7F4YOo4/s1600/untitled.bmp" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hughes, Dean. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Search and Destroy</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005. Grade 7 and up</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In 1969 Rick Ward is a recent high school graduate who enlists in the army as a way to escape and find inspiration for his writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Vietnam Rick volunteers for the Charlie Company Rangers, a special combat unit that goes on reconnaissance missions in the jungle and returns home a wounded soldier that suffers from nightmares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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