{"id":945,"date":"2010-12-15T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=945"},"modified":"2010-12-15T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:15:28","slug":"democracy-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/democracy-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the November meetings of the 5th, 6th, and Teen Book Groups, the kids in each group nominated and voted for the books that we&#8217;ll be reading for the remainder of this school year (through May).\u00a0 Here are the winning titles:<\/p>\n<h4>5th Grade Choices<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Regarding the Fountain <\/em>by Kate Klise<\/li>\n<li><em>Gregor the Overlander <\/em>by Suzanne Collins<\/li>\n<li><em>Olivia Kidney <\/em>by Ellen Potter<\/li>\n<li><em>Hoot <\/em>by Carl Hiassen<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lightning Thief <\/em>by Rick Riordan<\/li>\n<li><em>Raven&#8217;s Gate <\/em>by Anthony Horowitz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>6th Grade Choices<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>13 Treasures <\/em>by Michelle Harrison<\/li>\n<li><em>The Glitch in Sleep <\/em>by John Hulme and Michael Wexler<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lost Island of Tamarind <\/em>by Nadia Aguiar<\/li>\n<li><em>Raven&#8217;s Gate <\/em>by Anthony Horowitz<\/li>\n<li><em>The Mysterious Benedict Society <\/em>by Trenton Lee Stewart<\/li>\n<li><em>Nick of Time <\/em>by Ted Bell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Teen\u00a0(Grades 7 to 9) Choices<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Wolf Brother <\/em>by Michelle Paver<\/li>\n<li><em>The Capture <\/em>by Kathryn Lasky<\/li>\n<li><em>Demons of the Ocean <\/em>(book one in the <em>Vampirates <\/em>series) by Justin Somper<\/li>\n<li><em>Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow <\/em>by Jessica Day George<\/li>\n<li><em>Terrier <\/em>by Tamora Pierce<\/li>\n<li><em>The Thief Lord <\/em>by Cornelia Funke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great line-up of books, and I&#8217;m psyched.\u00a0 The only thing I&#8217;d change about these suggestions?\u00a0 The books are primarily fantasy: I do like to mix in other genres, especially mystery and historical fiction.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m very happy that the kids are so happy with the book choices; the democratic choosing of the books has been good for the groups&#8217; dynamics and morale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the November meetings of the 5th, 6th, and Teen Book Groups, the kids in each group nominated and voted for the books that we&#8217;ll be reading for the remainder of this school year (through May).\u00a0 Here are the winning titles: 5th Grade Choices Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/democracy-in-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracy in action<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-groups","category-childrens-literature","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}