I Want to Go Home! - Korman, Gordon Review & Synopsis

Synopsis Rudy Miller is so unhappy spending the summer at Camp Algonkian Island that he devises dozens of tricks to get himself sent home Review Award-winning Gordon Korman is one of the most popular contemporary authors today, with more than forty novels for middle grade and young adults to his credit, including the best-selling Macdonald Hall series, and the critically acclaimed Everest, Island and Dive trilogies. I Want to Go Home Gordon Korman’s uproarious, outrageous, and all-too-familiar summer camp adventure is BACK! Rudy Miller really isn’t into the whole camping thing. So when his parents send him to Camp Algonkian “for his own good” all he wants to do is go home. Rudy teams up with his cabin-mate Mike for a series of carefully planned — yet hilariously bungled — escape attempts. Unfortunately, their counsellor (and nemesis) Chip is as determined to keep them there as they are to get away. Rudy and Mike spend their days plotting, playing chess, and working off punishments for their failed escapes. Hmmm, maybe it isn’t such a bad way to spend the summer after all . . . Gordon Korman’s uproarious, outrageous, and all-too-familiar summer camp adventure is BACK!" Reading Comprehension, Grade 6 Skill Builders are great tools for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the next grade level. A variety of fun and challenging activities provides students with practice and helps introduce basic skills to new learners. This full-color workbook contains appropriate passages and exercises based on national standards for sixth grade to help ensure that children master reading comprehension skills before progressing. Skill Builders combines entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing fun and effective. The compact 6" x 9" size makes this book perfect for school, at home, or on the go. It features 80 perforated, reproducible pages and an answer key. Freedman , Russell Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille Gutman, Dan Jackie & Me Henkes, Kevin Words of Stone Hesse, Karen Stowaway Hiaasen, Carl Flush; Hoot Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders Korman, Gordon I Want to Go Home!;" Reading Success, Grade 6 Provide focused practice for sixth graders in areas such as comprehension, vocabulary, language, and reasoning. Grade-appropriate flash cards, completion chart, and skills matrix are also provided. Meets NCTE standards. ... Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain On the Far Side of the Mountain Jacques, Brian Mossflower The Bellmaker Jennings, Paul Unreal Konigsburg, E. L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver Korman , Gordon I Want to Go Home !" Collaborations for Literacy The best of middle school teaching is learning by doing and is interdisciplinary. This book ties it all together and offers a complete, innovative program, from vision, through planning, implementation, and assessment. The program is accomplished through the collaboration of the school library media specialist and the language arts teacher. Senator outlines ways in which they can collaboratively plan, teach, and assess units which use language arts as tools. She includes specific instructional programs, suggestions for staff development, examples of questions, organizers, and units for grades six through eight, ideas for creating schedules, and methods of working together to develop materials for instruction. This program reflects the restructuring movement in American education. It emphasizes process as well as content, uses authentic material, and stresses interdisciplinary learning and learning by doing. The first part deals with literature as a subject and offers many practical units for the library media specialist and the language arts teacher to use in collaboratively teaching students inquiry and a framework for literature. Armed with these tools, students are able to read, discuss, think, and write about more challenging and interesting literature. Senator offers many ideas for extending literature through creative dramatics, storytelling, booktalks, and book shares. The second half of the book shows how to plan interdisciplinary units so that students, through resource-based learning, may learn to use new technologies and information problem-solving. The work also includes some units for elementary and secondary schools. Because of its innovative methods and practical ideas it will be a boon to library media specialists, language arts and English teachers, reading specialists, and library schools and undergraduate and graduate schools of education. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Korman , Gordon . / Want to Go Home Mazer , Harry . The Island Keeper Paterson , Katherine . Jacob Have 1 Loved Speare , Elizabeth . The Sign of the Beaver Spinelli , Jerry ." Canadian Book Review Annual Anne Hutchings 6095 Zeman , Ludmila . ... His city prospers and the future looks bright as this second book in Zeman's Gilgamesh trilogy begins . ... The Revenge of Ishtar is highly recommended for children in Grades 2 to 5 ." The Storymakers This valuable resource features the colourful biographies of 72 illustrators and artists whose works are considered among the best in the world. Told in the artists' own words, these biographies offer fascinating insights into their lives, and feature a sample illustration from one of their favourite books. Discover how these fantastic artists work, what their favourite books are, who influenced them, and how they came to illustrate children's books. children to feel that they are walking through the incredible Ludmilla Zeman world that I create in my pictures ... Creating the Gilgamesh trilogy was quite a difficult task since not many visual references related to this story exist ." Operation Do-Over From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables, Gordon Korman, comes a hilarious new high-concept friendship story in the vein of Back to the Future. Perfect for fans of Korman’s Restart. Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he’d give anything for is a do-over. But that can’t happen in real life—can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so he can’t believe it when he wakes up from a freak accident and finds himself magically transported back to seventh grade. His parents aren’t yet divorced and his beloved sheepdog is still alive. Best of all, he and Ty haven’t had their falling-out yet. It makes no logical sense, but Mason is determined to use this second chance to not only save his friendship (and his dog!) but do other things differently—like trying out for the football team and giving new friends a chance. There’s just one person he’ll be avoiding at all costs: Ava. But despite his best efforts, will he be able to stop the chain of events that made his previous life implode? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables, Gordon Korman, comes a hilarious new high-concept friendship story in the vein of Back to the Future." The Ultimate Guide to Classroom Publishing "Exciting ideas for teaching writing, editing, illustration and design. This practical resource also features author studies, a guide to author visits, fun ways to celebrate books and more" Cf. Our choice, 2000. Other Things That Kids Ask about a Lot Rudy's letter from I Want to Go Home ! (p. 23): “It's based on the letter I wrote when my parents sent me to camp. ... Most of Gordon Korman's books are best suited for kids in Grades 4 to 6." Gordon Korman Did you know that Gordon KormanÕs mom typed his first book for him? This is because Gordon became a published author before he even graduated high school! This author profile for children introduces the lifelong writer responsible for sending troublemakers Boots and Bruno to Macdonald Hall. 1986: I Want to Go Home ! is presented with an International Reading Association Children's Choice Award. 1987: Gordon receives the Markham Civic Award for Cultural Achievement. 1988: The American Library Association lists A Semester in ..." The Fort AD 105: Dacia. Centurion Flavius Ferox commands an isolated fort beyond the Danube. First in a new adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire. AD 105: DACIA The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one thinks that it will last. Sent to command an isolated fort beyond the Danube, centurion Flavius Ferox can sense that war is coming, but also knows that enemies may be closer to home. Many of the Brigantes under his command are former rebels and convicts, as likely to kill him as obey an order. And then there is Hadrian, the emperor's cousin, and a man with plans of his own. "An instant classic of the genre." --Harry Sidebottom An authentic, enjoyable read." --TheTimes AD 105: Dacia. Centurion Flavius Ferox commands an isolated fort beyond the Danube. First in a new adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire." Mixed Up From the author of Restart, the story of two boys who are losing their memories... to each other. Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him a freedom he doesn't have with his domineering dad. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom." In Review Fiction Livres d'images Korman , Gordon . I WANT TO GO HOME ! illustrated by Constantine Zottas . Scholastic - TAB , 1981. 187 pages . $ 1.95 , paper . ISBN 0-590-71081-8 . This is 17 year old Gordon Korman's fifth successful book ." Canadian Connections Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t. Groundwood , 1987 . Katz , Welwyn . Witchery Hill . Groundwood , 1984 . Korman , Gordon . Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood . Scholastic - TAB , 1991 . Korman , Gordon . I Want to Go Home . Scholastic - TAB , 1981 . Korman , Gordon ." Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index 6 ) CIP The Scapegoat complex : toward a mythology of shadow and guilt . Inner City , 1986 $ 16.00 paper [ 0-919123-22-8 ] ( Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts , No. 23 ) CIP Perera , Tanuja ( ed . ) ..." Boys' Life Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting. Two are available from the National Audubon Society , Dept. BL, 1130 Fifth Ave., New York, ... Field Guide to the Birds of Texas and Adjacent States ($4.95) and How to Know the Birds ($3.75). A Field Guide to the Birds and Field Guide to ..." The Summit One mountain. Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low." In Review : Canadian Books for Young People Unfortunately , this particular one is limited in its library use because it has a flimsy soft cover and unappealing illustrations . Margaret Pommer Warmels Etobicoke Public Library Korman , Gordon . I WANT TO GO HOME ! illustrated by ..." Canadian Children's Literature ... Heavenly Emperors 0-88776-363-4 32 pp hc $ 19.95 The Last Quest of Gilgamesh : Book III The final chapter in Ludmila Zeman's gloriously illustrated and critically praised trilogy Gilgamesh the King : Book I The Revenge of Ishtar ..." Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall (Novel Study) Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall is the story of two boys, Bruno and Boots, and a series of escapades that surround Macdonald Hall. Edward, Boots’ younger brother, has just enrolled at Macdonald Hall. Mr. Sturgeon, the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall, is considering resigning, saying that there are no more challenges left. A series of escapades captures everyone’s attention, including the dressing of Sir John A. Macdonalds's statue in a scuba suit; the blue-dyed swimming pool; detour signs on Highway 48; and the stuffing of the cannon with a human mannequin. The mystery unfolds as the two boys try to capture the person responsible. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, discussion questions and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan. Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall Gordon Korman Gordon Korman was born on October 23, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec. ... By the time he entered high school, Mr. Korman was a best-selling author. His books have ... I Want to Go Home , 1981."