Title: All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
Author website(s):
Sleeping Bear Press Profile and Interactive Site:
http://www.sleepingbearpress.com/authors_illustrators/ann_burg.htm
Scholastic Profile: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=163578
Publisher website:
Scholastic
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp
Reviews:
The Reading Zone Review:
http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/all-the-broken-pieces-by-ann-e-burg/
Book Page Review: http://www.bookpage.com/books-10011656-All+the+Broken+Pieces
YALSA Book Summary/Review:
http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2011/03/10/across-the-uni-verse-novels-in-poetry/
Maw Book Blogs:
http://blog.mawbooks.com/2010/01/26/all-the-broken-pieces-by-ann-burg/
The Virtual Loft:
http://eplteen.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/all-the-broken-pieces-by-ann-e-burg/
Lesson plan ideas:
Order the audio book:
http://store.scholastic.com/1/1/4604-all-the-broken-pieces-audiobook.html
Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard: http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=1303591
Teacher Notes – How to Read a Verse Novel:
http://www.sherrylclark.com/teachersnotes.htm
Discussion Questions (pdf):
http://www.atpe.org/resources/educators/bookclubfiles/201101Grades6-8Questions.pdf
As a teacher, I chose this book as my summer reading novel for the students in my high school. I am looking forward to hearing their comments, summaries, opinions, and reflections of what they read. It was an easy read…took me about an hour. Sat and started reading it and couldn’t put it down. Heartwarming and touching, sad yet beautiful. As a mother of four, I fell in love with the little boy as if I could picture him as an addition to my family. I would recommend this verse novel to all readers, young and old alike…quite an inspiring story!