[4.] TITLE: FAMILY HISTORY HOME: AUDIO / VIDEO PRODUCTION LAB This GoBag focuses on storytelling the stories of our own families and others. History is global, but also it is local, and personal. Knowing our own stories and the stories of the people around us helps us to better know the world. TYPE TITLE VENDOR w/ Link PRICE TARGET AUD. Adtll. Link REVIEW DID YOU KNOW?: A bit of history on history recording in the US the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the recordings of the oral traditions of free slaves and moun music, etc. CHALLENGE: Create a family genealogy tree. Create a podcast with or about a family member. book NONfic ● Beginning Genealogy ● Filling the Family Tree ● Using Your Research 3 books Abdo $70 gr 59 link Abdo Website: Interest in family history is at its highest. Young people want to know where came from, as well as the people who built their family and their country. Beginning Genealogy provides readers the basics of genealogy to get them started on their way to building their very own family tree. What can you lear from your last name? How does a family tree work and what can a person le from it? Why would a person want to learn about his or her heritage? These all questions that a budding genealogist asks and Beginning Genealogy pr the answers. Readers explore their own and other people's pasts, creating understanding of the opportunities and challenges that built this nation. book FIC The counterfeit family tree of Vee CrawfordWong Amazon $12 Gr 6+ link * Starred Review */ A school assignment to research his family tree sends V (named for the letter) on a journey of discovery, real and metaphorical, hilarious and moving, that's as much about the future as the past. Future anthropologist and basketballerwannabe Vee knows he's an underachieve thanks. Unlike his best friend Madison (Miaoling at home), Vee doesn't conform to the Asiannerd stereotype. (He blames his heritage: Chinese immigrant dad and tall, blonde Texan mom.) They're great parents, but their families are a taboo topic. Life's not all badmanaging the girls' basketball team has a lot going for it, like gorgeous but inaccessible senior Adele. Still frustrations mount. Obsessed with digging up his roots and stonewalled by parents, Vee enlists Madison's help. She can't help it if she looks like his father's child more than Vee does and speaks Mandarin at home. (In Vee's family, English is the common language.) Like the rounded characters, the p avoids cliché and oversimplification. Life is a balancing act, Vee finds, in thi book that belongs on every multicultural reading list. Knowing where we co from matters, but assigning too much power to ancestry can be more limiting than illuminating. While characters with mixed heritages are increasingly visible in teen literature, their experience in a rapidly shifting cultural landsc is seldom explored in depth. This firstrate debut does exactly that. (Fiction. & up)(Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2013)
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[4.] TITLE: FAMILY HISTORY HOME: AUDIO / VIDEO PRODUCTION LAB This GoBag focuses on storytelling the stories of our own families and others. History is global, but also it is local, and personal. Knowing our own stories and the stories of the people around us helps us to better know the world.
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DID YOU KNOW?: A bit of history on history recording in the US the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the recordings of the oral traditions of free slaves and mountainmusic, etc. CHALLENGE: Create a family genealogy tree. Create a podcast with or about a family member.
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Beginning Genealogy Filling the Family Tree Using Your Research 3 books
Abdo $70 gr 59 link Abdo Website: Interest in family history is at its highest. Young people want to know where theycame from, as well as the people who built their family and their country. Beginning Genealogy provides readers the basics of genealogy to get themstarted on their way to building their very own family tree. What can you learnfrom your last name? How does a family tree work and what can a person learnfrom it? Why would a person want to learn about his or her heritage? These areall questions that a budding genealogist asks and Beginning Genealogy providesthe answers. Readers explore their own and other people's pasts, creating anunderstanding of the opportunities and challenges that built this nation.
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The counterfeit family tree of Vee CrawfordWong
Amazon $12 Gr 6+ link * Starred Review */ A school assignment to research his family tree sends Vee(named for the letter) on a journey of discovery, real and metaphorical, hilarious and moving, that's as much about the future as the past. Future anthropologist and basketballerwannabe Vee knows he's an underachiever,thanks. Unlike his best friend Madison (Miaoling at home), Vee doesn't conform to the Asiannerd stereotype. (He blames his heritage: Chinese immigrant dad and tall, blonde Texan mom.) They're great parents, but theirfamilies are a taboo topic. Life's not all badmanaging the girls' basketball team has a lot going for it, like gorgeous but inaccessible senior Adele. Still,frustrations mount. Obsessed with digging up his roots and stonewalled by hisparents, Vee enlists Madison's help. She can't help it if she looks like his father's child more than Vee does and speaks Mandarin at home. (In Vee's family, English is the common language.) Like the rounded characters, the plotavoids cliché and oversimplification. Life is a balancing act, Vee finds, in thisbook that belongs on every multicultural reading list. Knowing where we comefrom matters, but assigning too much power to ancestry can be more limitingthan illuminating. While characters with mixed heritages are increasingly visible in teen literature, their experience in a rapidly shifting cultural landscapeis seldom explored in depth. This firstrate debut does exactly that. (Fiction. 12& up)(Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2013)
link * Starred Review */ In 1993, 16 yearold Maggie and her family move from Chicago to smalltown Ireland with the latest of her mother's romantic partners. Moving to Bray, Maggie leaves behind warm, practical Nanny Ei andbeloved Uncle Kevin, a 26yearold who plays in a band, sneaks her into grunge rock concerts and makes himself responsible for Maggie's musical education. Arriving in Ireland, Maggie finds that she's no better at fitting in withthe girls of St. Brigid's than she had been at her old school. Instead, she formsa loose web of connections with local figures: Dan Sean, a Bray legend at 99,whose home becomes a refuge for Maggie in times of family conflict; Aà ne,the bookish classmate with whom Maggie reluctantly goes on double dates;and Eoin, the gentle boy with whom Maggie falls in love. The narrative subtlyand carefully interweaves peer and family drama—much of it involving troubled Uncle Kevin—with the highs and lows of the grunge music scene,from the transformative glory of a Nirvana concert to the outpouring of grief around the death of Kurt Cobain. Every character, every place comes alive with crisp, precise detail: Maggie's heartbroken mother "howling along in anoffkey soprano" to Joni Mitchell's Blue, Dan Sean welcoming Maggie with aCossack's hat and a hefty glass of port. Powerfully evocative. (Historical fiction. 14 & up)(Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2014)
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We were liars Amazon $15 gr 7+ link * Starred Review */ Gr 9 Up — Cadence Sinclair Easton comes from an oldmoney family, headed by a patriarch who owns a private island off of CapeCod. Each summer, the extended family gathers at the various houses on theisland, and Cadence, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and friend Gat (the four"Liars"), have been inseparable since age eight. During their fifteenth summerhowever, Cadence suffers a mysterious accident. She spends the next two years—and the course of the book—in a haze of amnesia, debilitating migraines, and painkillers, trying to piece together just what happened. Lockhart writes in a somewhat sparse style filled with metaphor and jumps from past to present and back again—rather fitting for a main character struggling with a sudden and unexplainable life change. The story, while lightlytouching on issues of class and race, more fully focuses on dysfunctional family drama, a heartwrenching romance between Cadence and Gat, and,ultimately, the suspense of what happened during that fateful summer. The ending is a stunner that will haunt readers for a long time to come.—Jenny Berggren, formerly at New York Public Library Jenny Berggren (ReviewedApril 1, 2014) (School Library Journal, vol 60, issue 4, p168)
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The emperor of any place Amazon $17 Gr 7+ link * Starred Review */ Gr 9 Up — An ambitious treatise on grief, war, memory, and the bonds between fathers and sons. Evan is 16 when his beloved fatherdies suddenly at home. Evan has no other family, so his estranged grandfather,Griff, whom he has never met, flies in to help him settle the affairs. The sourceof the family schism was the Vietnam War, when Evan's hippie father moved toCanada to dodge the draft, infuriating his father, a lifelong Marine. While goingthrough his father's belongings, Evan happens upon a Japanese diary detailing amarooned soldier's account during World War II, a book that he knows he mustkeep from his grandfather at all costs. The narrative contained in this secretbook unfolds throughout the course of the novel as readers meet Lance Corporal Isamu Oshiro of the Imperial Japanese Army through his own wordsand learn how his story ended up in the hands of Evan's father. This work is atits best when it is mired in death—seen in Oshiro's selfappointed job as islandundertaker, as well as in Griff's stoic refusal to discuss his son's death—andWynneJones is spoton in his writing on grief, especially from Evan's point ofview. The bookwithinabook plot is less successful, as Oshiro's account is abit lengthy, and the suspense of Griff's involvement ends quickly and conveniently, without much satisfaction for readers. However, the high points ofthis tale make it worth a first purchase. VERDICT Offering a unique take on theWorld War II period, this intergenerational tale is an excellent addition to mostYA collections.—Susannah Goldstein, Convent of the Sacred Heart, New YorkCity (Reviewed October 1, 2015) (School Library Journal, vol 61, issue 10, p118)
Amazon $7 gr 49 link * Starred Review */ Holt's (My Louisiana Sky ) atmospheric novel traces fivegenerations of a Louisiana family. Spanning the years 1939–2004, the bookencapsulates the struggles, sorrows, infatuations and triumphs of various family members as they enter adolescence. Readers first meet 14yearold Rose, who lies about her age to become the bookmobile driver for the new Terrebone Parish Library. Working hard to help her family make ends meet,she never realizes her dream of going to college but remains an avid readerand writer. She passes down her love of books to some but not all of her children and grandchildren. Rose's son Merle Henry would rather trap thanread; her granddaughter, Annabeth, wishes she were more popular; and hergreatgrandson, Kyle, works at the library like his grandmother did, but doesn'thave much use for books until he discovers Harry Potter. The author subtly weaves in historic influences such as the Dust Bowl, the Vietnam War and theWatergate hearings. Rose resurfaces briefly as a loving mother, grandmotherand greatgrandmother, and once again takes center stage in the final pages ofthe novel when, at age 79, she becomes a published author. Economical, evocative prose reflects the leisurely pace of Southern living and movingly conveys family tensions, family love, and the power of stories to bring generations together. Ages 1015. (Sept.) Staff (Reviewed July 17, 2006) (Publishers Weekly, vol 253, issue 28, p158)
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Big fish: a novel of mythic proportions
Amazon $13 link "People mess things up, forget and remember all the wrong things. What's leftis fiction," writes Wallace in his refreshing, original debut, which ignores theconventional retelling of the events and minutiae of a life and gets right to thepoetry of a son's feelings for and memories of his father. William Bloom's father, Edward, is dying. He dies in fact in four different takes, all of which haveWilliam and his mother waiting outside a bedroom door as the family doctortells them it's time to say their goodbyes. He intersperses the four takes withstories (all filtered through William's mind and voice) about the elusive Edward, who spent long periods of time on the road away from home and admitted once to his son that he had yearned to be a great man. The father andson deathbed conversations have son William playing earnest straight man,while his father is full of witticisms and jokes. In a plainspoken style dotted withtranscendent passages, Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale, and the novel'sroomy structure allows the mystery and lyricism of the story to coalesce. Agent, Joe Regal; author tour. (Oct.) FYI: Wallace is an illustrator who designsTshirts, refrigerator magnets and greeting cards.
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The maze of bones Amazon $13 Gr 48 link * Starred Review */ Gr 4–7— When their beloved Aunt Grace dies, Dan, 11, and Amy, 14—along with other Cahill descendants—are faced with an unusual choice: inherit one million dollars or participate in a perilous treasure hunt. Cahills have determined the course of history for centuries, and this quest's outcome will bring the victors untoward power and affect all of humankind. Against the wishes of nasty Aunt Beatrice, their reluctant guardian since their parents' deaths, Dan and Amy accept the challenge, convincing their collegeage au pair to serve as designated adult. Pitted against other Cahill teams, who will stop at nothing to win, the siblings decipher the
