Fallout - 6th Grade

 I hope you enjoyed reading Fallout, learning a little about the 60's, experiencing being a journalist and actor and a poet.  Reading is the key to your future.  Here are some thoughts of the importance of reading and below you will find 3 books that you might like if you enjoyed Fallout.

1. �Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.� � Frederick Douglass
2. �The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you�ll go.�� Dr. Seuss, �I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!�
3. �I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.� � Groucho Marx
4. �There are many little ways to enlarge your world.  Love of books is the best of all.� - Jacqueline Kennedy
5. �Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.� � Margaret Fuller
6. �There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate�s loot on Treasure Island.� � Walt Disney
7. �There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.� � Ray Bradbury
8. �Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.� � Edmund Burke
9. �The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.� � Descartes
10. �Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.� � Richard Steele�
11. So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.� � Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
12. �Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.�  - Mary Schmich
13. �Books are a uniquely portable magic.� � Stephen King
14. �No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. � Lady Montagu
15. �To learn to read is to light a fire� � Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

If you liked Fallout, you will probably enjoy these books.

Terrell-Deutsch,Beverley (2014). Running Scared. Red Deer Press.  176 pp.

1.          Greg has had a tough year, hisfather died in a car accident in which Greg was in the car, school is not goingwell, his school is planning to close and he is fearful of losing the friendshipof teachers that care about him.  Greg strugglesbecause he can�t go near where the accident was that took his father�s life,and avoiding it is difficult.  Hisfriends at school and a special lady that lives in the neighborhood help him toovercome his fears and accept the life he has been dealt. 

Watts, Irene N (2013). Touched by Fire. TundraBooks. 208 pp.

2.           Miriam is a young girl who wasforced out of Russia and into Kiev when a fire burned down their town.  Her family moves to Germany where her fatherworks hard to make money to send the family oversees.  He eventually goes to America and savesenough money to have his family join him. Mairiam is the only one that goes because her sister is too sick and herbrother doesn�t want to go.  Mairiam findswork at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company and when the fire breaks out a yearlater killing 140 people she is devastated, but alive.  Miriam and her father work hard to send forthe rest of the family in which all come except Yuri, her brother.  In the epilogue we learn of Yuri�s son�sdesire to get to the United States who is half Jewish and living in NaziGermany in 1933.  This historical fictionbook gives insight to a tough time in history. 

Bradbury, Jennifer (2012). Shift.  Atheneum Books forYoung Readers. 272 pp.

3.          Chris and Win graduate from highschool and head out west on a bicycle adventure.  They are finally near the end of the tripwhen Win disappears.  Chris doesn�t knowwhere Win went but decides to go home. When he gets home there is an FBI investigation and Win�s parents todeal with.  By retracing their steps Chrisfinally figures out where Win went. Win doesn�t want to face his rich and domineeringfather.  He won�t go home and is happywith his new direction.  Like Fallout,the alternating chapters are very fast paced and suspenseful.