Connecting kids and books with movies

The great difficulty with choice reading for students, especially non-readers, is how to choose a book. Finding a book that is interesting can be challenging. Today I want you to think about what movie you would go see at the local theater. Have it in your mind? Now let me share some books with you that are written in the same genre as the movie you find interesting. Happy reading!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Heroes are not born, they are created!

 Mutant teenagers, banding together to fight evil, your thing? We have just the book (and it's a series!) for you! From James Patterson's official website: "Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Six kids who are pretty normal in most ways—except that they're 98 percent human, 2 percent bird. They grew up in a lab, living like rats in cages, but now they're free. Aside, of course, from the fact that they're prime prey for Erasers - wicked wolflike creatures with a taste for flying humans."

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Young adult fiction trilogy set in alternative version of World War I, it has German Central Powers (Clankers) using mechanized war machines opposed by British Entente Powers (Darwinists) who fabricate living creatures genetically. The heroes are teens Aleksander, son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Deryn, Scottish girl with dreams of joining the British Air Service with her brother.

If I Stay : It's inconvenient to fall in love as a teenager, especially when it's the real thing.

Gayle Forman, author of the book If I Stay  takes the same formula of intense emotional connection and tragedy in the next series, which begins with Just One Day. Set in a Europe during a post-graduation trip, Allyson and Willem spend a life-changing 24 hours in Paris, France. 

When the Game Stands Tall: It's Never Just About Winning

Sports teams that transcend winning and losing are inspiring. When the stories are true, we learn much from the character of the people involved. One Shot at Forever, is the reverse of When the Game Stands Tall. Follow a small town baseball team, with an unlikely coach, through a magical baseball season.

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Follows the Fort Yukon Eages, winner of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice to the Alaska State Championship Tournament.

The November Man  - This classic tail of espionage is sure to thrill!

Caution: this movie has a rating of "R". Under seventeen, you need your parents! But if you like spy stories, this book is sure to please.

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.

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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.