Create an annotated bibliography in which you include a minimum of 2 books for each of 6 different genres of children’s literature appropriate for an upper elementary grade level of your choice
GENRE selected will be horror and drama, 2 books for each just a paragraph for each. below I will put an example of my classmates responses
Example:
Novels
1. Author: Harper Lee
Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Publisher/Year: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
Type of book: Historical fiction/Literary Classic
Reading level: 5th-8th grade
This book is a literary classic that teaches children about segregation and civil rights. The story is about a black man who struggles to find hope after being falsely accused of raping a white woman. This book chronicles the hardships African Americans endured during this time. This book has a heart-wrenching ending and captivates the reader by eliciting feelings of sorrow for the black man wronged.
Noteworthy: Pulitzer Prize Winner. This book is profoundly exceptional, but this book needs to be used for readers who can appropriately handle the subject matter and approved before using it in the classroom.
2. Author: Suzanne Collins
Title: The Hunger Games
Publisher/Year: Scholastic Press, 2008
Type of book: Fiction/Modern Fantasy
Reading level: 5th-8th grade
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, which is made up of the Capital and twelve outlying districts. The Capital is harsh and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the death that is televised for all to see. One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games. This book is well-written and has great imagery. This book has the potential to spark great discussions or writing assignments about different types of governments and their control of the people.
