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Drafting
I’ve now actually begun to write a draft of one of the chapters in my study of alternating narratives, and so I’m feeling less need to make notes here on the books I’ll be considerin… more →
Nodelmania: Perry Nodelman's Alternating Narratives Project
Drafting
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pernodel wrote 4 months ago: I’ve now actually begun to write a draft of one of the chapters in my study of alternating nar … more →
Julie Lawson's The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain and Destination Gold!
pernodel wrote 5 months ago: Lawson, Julie. The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain. Toronto and New York: Stoddard Kids, 2000. - - -. … more →
Julie Lawson's White Jade Tiger
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Lawson, Julie. White Jade Tiger. 1993. Toronto: Sandcastle Dundurn, 2006. The text is a tradition … more →
E.R. Franks's Life is Funny, One More Time
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: I’ve found a review of Life is Funny, discussed in my last post, that I wrote back when the bo … more →
E.R. Franks's Life Is Funny
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pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Frank, E.R. Life is Funny. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. This is another example of a series … more →
Dennis Foon's Skud
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Foon, Dennis. Skud. Toronto Groundwood, 2003. Four boys who attend the same high school all face pr … more →
J.L. Powers's The Confessional
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pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Powers, J.L. The Confessional. New York: Knopf, 2007. The El Paso Chamber of Commerce must have hi … more →
Rachel Anderson's The Bus People
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Anderson, Rachel. The Bus People. 1989. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. Originally published in the U … more →
Monica Hughes's Log Jam
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Hughes, Monica. Log Jam. Toronto: Irwin, 1987. Opposite to what tends to happen in novels presenti … more →
Helen Frost's Keesha's House
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pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Frost, Helen. Keesha’s House. 2003. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. There are no ch … more →
Rob Thomas's Slave Day
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Thomas, Rob. Slave Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. This novel describes what happens to a … more →
Richard Marsh's The Joss: A Reversion
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Marsh, Richard. The Joss: A Reversion. 1901. Chicago: Valancourt, 2007 Marsh, best known as auth … more →
Julian Barnes's Arthur & George
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Barnes, Julian. Arthur & George. New York: Knopf, 2006. Since I mentioned this novel while dis … more →
Daniel Pinkwater's The Snarkout Boys And The Baconburg Horror
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Pinkwater, Daniel. The Snarkout Boys And The Baconburg Horror. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepher … more →
Julian Barnes's Talking It Over
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pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Barnes, Julian. Talking It Over. New York and Toronto: Knopf, 1991 A book by Barnes much earlier t … more →
Marlene Carvell's Sweetgrass Basket
pernodel wrote 10 months ago: Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass Basket. New York: Dutton, 2005 In this novel of what claims to be fre … more →
Karen Hesse's Brooklyn Bridge
pernodel wrote 10 months ago: Hess, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Fiewel and Friends, 2008. This novel starts out for seemin … more →
Karen Hesse's Witness
pernodel wrote 10 months ago: Hesse, Karen. Witness. New York: Scholastic, 2001. The text consists of a series of poems in free ve … more →
Welwyn Wilton Katz's Come Like Shadows
pernodel wrote 10 months ago: Katz, Welwyn. Come Like Shadows. 1993. Regina: Coteau, 2000. The most noticeable thing about this … more →
