| Booktalk
#1
We are sixth-graders at the
last one room schoolhouse in the county. There are only five of us:
Becky, Eddy, Penny, Mary Margaret, and Tim. We're getting ready to
graduate. Now to most people, graduating wouldn't be very unusual, but
we're part of Miss Clough's sixth grade class. She's been preparing
us all year. but we're still not exactly sure what for, except that it's
something called "going through the gate" but nobody -- NOBODY -- will
talk about it directly. Only Miss Clough has the key to "the gate".
All we really know is that it's a big mystery. Can we survive
to tell? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
Booktalk #2
This book takes place on a
fine June day. The sixth grade class is preparing for their graduation
ceremony from the county's last one-room school. Everyone in town has gone
through the ceremony when they left sixth grade but no one will tell the
children what is involved. All that is certain is that everyone is changed
by the experience. As the children come to realize what is involved in
"going through the gate", they become apprehensive about how the day will
end. This book is a fantasy not a horror book. Find out what is involved
in the ceremony as the sixth graders prepare for the adventure of GOING
THROUGH THE GATE. |
