EDRG 3321 Literature for Public Schools/ Chapter 8

The Fiction Family is what I learned about in Chapter 8. The fiction family is divided into realistic, historical, fantasy, and science fiction. My favorite type is hisorical fiction. Historical fiction books are about events that could actually happen that take place in the past up to and including the Vietnam Era in the 1960's. My second favorite type of fiction books is fantasy. I love to get lost in these books that take you to a far off place and make you forget your troubles. This type of work is categorized when it contains elements that are considered impossible in our world. A great example of this is the famous series of Harry Potter which is also one of my favorite books.

AUTHOR PROFILE:

Again, I add another of my favorite books to my author profile. When I read a book I usually leave planet earth and create my own imaginary place and this is the case of many other avid readers. If the book is a quality piece of literature and of interest to the student then we will accomplish our goal of engaging the student with literature.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

This is a work of children's literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom. In 1978, it won the Newbery Medal. Bridge to Terabithia is the story of fifth grader

Jess Aarons, who becomes friends with his new neighbor Leslie Burke after he loses a footrace to her at school. Leslie is a smart, talented, outgoing tomboy, and Jess thinks highly of her. He himself is an artistic boy who, in the beginning of the novel, is fearful, angry, and depressed. After meeting, and then ultimately losing Leslie, Jess is transformed. He becomes courageous and lets go of his anger and frustration. This book also has a film version.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

This is a children's book series of thirteen novels (or "tridecalogy") written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, and illustrated by Brett Helquist. It is about the adventures of three children, Violet Baudelaire, an inventor, Klaus Baudelaire, a researcher, and Sunny Baudelaire, a chef (consequently), after the death of their parents in a fire. The setting of the series is anachronistic, presumably set in the 1960s sometime after the invention of skyscrapers, and throughout the series there are many literary and cultural allusions.
A film adaptation of the first three books in the series was released on December 17, 2004, as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.