Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation

Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2003
Genre: Brothers
ISBN: 0689851081

Lenny and Mel kick off their incredible summer vacation by doing something huge, something they haven't done since last summer: nothing. They loaf. They doze. They dig into the fridge and come up with new and exciting lunch foods. They're bored -- and it's great! Then August hits, and it's time to go to the cabin. This means piling into the car with Grandma and their parents at the crack of dawn, and driving miles away to breathe fresh air, climb trees, and play with sticks. Yuck. Dad says it'll be an "adventure." But Lenny and Mel know this is parent code for "bad stuff." Why can't they just do what they want this summer?

Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation

Lenny and Mel's Summer Vacation
Author: Erik P. Kraft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008-04-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781435262485

Twin brothers Lenny and Mel spend an uneventful summer that climaxes with a lackluster vacation.

Lenny and Mel

Lenny and Mel
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2004
Genre: Brothers
ISBN: 068985109X

Urged by their parents to join an after-school club, twin brothers Lenny and Mel are assigned by the teacher who runs the school newspaper to report on the school's other organizations.

Serving Boys Through Readers' Advisory

Serving Boys Through Readers' Advisory
Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083891022X

" ... With an emphasis on non-fiction and the boy-friendly categories of genre fiction, this book offers a wealth of material including tips for how to booktalk one-on-one as well as in large groups, methods of performing indirect readers' advisory with parents or teachers, and suggested read-alikes as well as titles to offer a boy in place of a book he did not like or would not read ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Haiku a day

Haiku a day
Author: Erik P. Kraft
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1304106187

In 2011, I wrote a haiku each day. These are those haikus. Dig it.

All Year Long!

All Year Long!
Author: Diana R. Jenkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2007-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313363846

This reader's theatre compilation of contemporary, humorous plays that deal with the problems middle-school students face is similar to the author's previous Teacher Ideas Press title, Just Deal With It! The plays in All Year Long! are themed to fit special times of year such as the beginning of school, holidays, and spring vacation and address problems experienced by this age group—peer pressure, fear of failure, jealousy, and more. Each reproducible play offers at least eight roles (boys and girls). Each includes a plot summary, prop list, and costume and presentation ideas, as well as ideas for further student reading on the topic or theme. This engaging collection (which can be adapted to small group or whole class presentations) will be useful to teachers and librarians who are looking for fun things to do with kids to promote reading fluency and discussion. Grades 6-8. This reader's theatre compilation of contemporary, humorous plays that deal with the problems middle-school students face is similar to the author's previous TIP title, Just Deal With It! The plays in All Year Long! are themed to fit special times of year such as the beginning of school, holidays, and spring vacation and address problems experienced by this age group—peer pressure, fear of failure, jealousy, and more. Each reproducible play offers at least eight roles (boys and girls). Each includes a plot summary, prop list, and costume and presentation ideas, as well as ideas for further student reading on the topic or theme. This engaging collection (which can be adapted to small group or whole class presentations) will be useful to teachers and librarians who are looking for fun things to do with kids to promote reading fluency and discussion. Grade 6-8.

Lenny and Mel

Lenny and Mel
Author: Erik Kraft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2003
Genre: Humorous stories
ISBN:

Twin brothers observe a year's worth of holidays in some very unusual ways.

Popular Series Fiction for K–6 Readers

Popular Series Fiction for K–6 Readers
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 1022
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Indexes popular fiction series for K-6 readers with groupings based on thematics, consistant setting, or consistant characters. Annotated entries are arranged alphabetically by series name and include author, publisher, date, grade level, genre, and a list of individual titles in the series. Volume is indexed by author, title, and subject/genre and includes appendixes suggesting books for boys, girls, and reluctant/ESL readers.