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Collection Spotlight: Freedom of Expression, Freedom to Read & Challenged Books
Freedom to Read Week 2021 will take place from February 21 to 27, 2021. We have selected some of the challenged books from the challenged book list on the Freedom to Read website which are available at UBC Education library.
French Books
Les papas de Violette
Émilie Chazerand; Gaëlle Souppart.
PZ23.C467 Pp 2017 French Collection
Qu’est-ce queue vous faites là?
Dominique Jolin.
PZ20.9.J554 QS 1993 French Collection
Juvenile Literature
Dumplin‘
Julie Murphy.
PZ7.M95352 Dm 2017
Maus: a survivor’s tale
Art Spiegelman.
D804.3 .S66
Trouble Is a Friend of Mine
Stephanie Tromly.
PZ7.1.T76 Tr 2015
The Scorpion Rules
Erin Bow
PZ7.B67167 Sc 2015
The graveyard book
Neil Gaiman; with illustrations by Dave McKean.
PZ7.G1273 Gr 2008
Rabbit ears
Maggie de Vries.
PZ7.D497 Rb 2014
Power Play
Eric Walters
PZ7 .W168 Pw 2013
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky.
PZ7 .C3978 Pr 1999
Children’s Books
The penguin and the pea
retold and illustrated by Janet Perlman.
PZ4.9.P315 Pn 2004
Little Rat Makes Music
Monika Bang-Campbell; illustrated by Molly Bang.
PZ7.B2218 Lr 2007
Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss
PZ8.3 .G276 Hp 2006
Spooky A B C
Eve Merriam; illustrated by Lane Smith.
PZ8.3 .M25 Sp 2002
And Tango makes three
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell; illustrated by Henry Cole.
PZ10.3.R414 An 2005
Asha’s mums
by Rosamund Elwin & Michele Paulse; illustrated by Dawn Lee.
PZ4.9.E468 AS 1990
Mrs. Lilly is Silly!
Dan Gutman; pictures by Jim Paillot.
PZ7.G9846 Mr 2011
Bedtime for Frances
Russell Hoban; pictures by Garth Williams.
PZ10.3 .H646 Be
Donovan’s big day
Lesléa Newman; illustrations by Mike Dutton.
PZ8.3.N4655 Dn 2011
Want to learn more about banned books? Check this out:
Hit list for young adults 2: frequently challenged books
Teri S. Lesesne and Rosemary Chance for the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association; with a foreword by Chris Crutcher. Online
A guide for librarians containing profiles of twenty young adult books that are often challenged by parents, presenting plot summaries, lists of reviews, and discussions of each book’s controversial issues. Also provides the ALA Library Bill of Rights and explains how to write a book rationale.
Z1019 .L48 2002
Featured New Resources: February 2021
Featured new resources for the month of February. Click on the book cover or title to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item.
The reading turn-around with emergent bilinguals: a five-part framework for powerful teaching & learning (grades K-6) / Amanda Claudia Wager, Lane W. Clarke, and Grace Enriquez; with Camille M. Garcia, Gilberto P. Lara, and Rebecca Reynolds.
LC3725 .W34 2019
“This practical resource will help K-6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners.
Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals.
Designed for teachers who have not specialized in bilingual instruction, the authors provide an accessible introduction to differentiating instruction that focuses on utilizing students’ strengths, identities, and cultural backgrounds to foster effective literacy instruction.
Chapters include classroom vignettes, teacher exercises, illustrations of powerful reading plans for the student and teacher, resources for culturally and linguistically diverse children’s literature, and tools to engage with students’ families and communities”
Every child can write, grades 2-5: entry points, bridges, and pathways for striving writers
Melanie Meehan; foreword by M. Colleen Cruz.
LB1576 .M434 2020
“In all classrooms, there are students who have difficulty with writing, either because of developmental challenges or previous experiences with limited instruction.
These are kids who can’t think of ideas or organize thoughts or integrate the many components of written language; and these are the students who keep teachers up at night.
This book focuses on specific approaches to take when working with striving writers. This is not a book about how to teach writing – but a book about how to teach students.
And the ideas here are based firmly in the belief that every child can write when given adequate entry points, bridges, and pathways to success by a knowledgeable, intentional teacher”
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The ultimate read-aloud resource: making every moment intentional and instructional with best friend books
Lester L. Laminack.
LB1573.5 .L36 2019
Award-winning children”s author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books.
Central to Laminack”s message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of “Best Friend Books”- a small, carefully curated collection that you turn to repeatedly for specific teaching purposes.
Featured New Children’s and YA books: February 2021
Featured new children’s and young adult books for the month of February. Click on the book cover or title to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item.
Amy Wu and the perfect bao
Kat Zhang ; illustrated by Charlene Chua.
PZ7.Z454 Am 2019
My papi has a motorcycle
Isabel Quintero ; illustrated by Zeke Peña.
PZ7.Q438 My 2019
Like a love story
Abdi Nazemian.
PZ7.1.N378 Lk 2019
Featured New Resources: January 2021
Featured new resources for the month of January. Click on the book cover or title to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item.
Teacher narratives from the Eikaiwa classroom: moving beyond “McEnglish”
edited by Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto.
PE1130.J3 T43 2020
This book includes 16 chapters written by current and former eikaiwa (English conversation school) teachers to illustrate a complexity within the eikaiwa profession that has been thus far largely ignored.
Through teacher narratives, the authors explore the unique and often problematic world of eikaiwa to present a counter-narrative to what the editors regard as blanket stereotyping of a multifaceted and evolving teaching context.
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Move, play, learn: interactive storytimes with music, movement, and more
Alyssa Jewell.
Z718.3 .J49 2020
Jewell provides ideas, suggestions, and strategies to help you energize your storytime, reading circles, and other early literacy programs.
She explains the benefits of music and movement storytime, as well as how to design, lead, and implement it.
The second half of the book offers practical resource materials, including ready-to-use plans for different age groups. —
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Canadian structures and sustainability
by James Bow; editor: Meg Gaertner.
NA2542.35 .B69 2019
“Examines the importance of building structures to withstand extreme weather as well as day to day stresses, the impact of structures on the environment, and technological innovations that help cities to use limited resources sustainably.”–
Featured New Children’s and YA Books: January 2021
Featured new children’s and young adult books for the month of January. Click on the book cover or title to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item.
Kiss number 8
written by Colleen AF Venable ; artwork by Ellen T. Crenshaw.
PZ7.7.V46 Ks 2019 Education GREAT READS
“Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It’s everything she hoped high school would be… until all of a sudden, it’s not.
Her dad is hiding something big–so big it could tear her family apart. And that’s just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting to figure out that she doesn’t want to kiss Adam… because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat.
Just like that, Mad’s tidy little life has gotten epically messy–and epically heartbreaking. And when your heart is broken, it takes more than an awkward, uncomfortable, tooth-clashing, friendship-ending kiss to put things right again. It takes a whole bunch of them”–
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Cicada
by Shaun Tan.
PZ7.T16123 Cc 2019
From the visionary Shaun Tan, an inspirational story for older picture book readers and beyond
Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he’s given up, he makes a transformation into something ineffably beautiful. A metaphor for growing up? A bit of inspiration for the unappreciated striver in all of us? Yes, yes, and more.
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Trésor
Mireille Messier et Irene Luxbacher.
PZ23.M4774 Tr 2019
“Dans ce livre superbement illustré, un frère et une sœur explorent leur environnement à la recherche d’un trésor.”–
When two siblings go on a treasure hunt, they aren’t sure exactly what kind of treasure they are looking for. What they do know is that treasures are shiny, mysterious, and precious. And that all the really good treasures are hidden!
Notes: Published simultaneously in English under the title: Treasure.
In French.