Book project_2D by Elisa Rizzardi https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5 Find out which book you'd like to read for our annual project en-us 2018-10-29 10:23:33 UTC 2024-05-24 22:30:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png THE HATE U GIVE - Angie Thomas elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297933068 Plot: Starr witnessed her best friend's 🤬: he was shot by the police; he was black and unarmed. Scarr's community becomes angry, while some cops try to scare her family. Is it possible to put a stop to all this violence?

Read it if ou think it's time to stop racism and violence.

Best quotes: 
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”

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]]> 2018-10-29 10:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297933068 WONDER - R.J. Palacio elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297934412 Plot: Augustus starts to go to school after being homeschooled by his mother. He is funny, smart and kind, but he was born with a facial abnormality. Will his new classmates like him?

Read it if you think that we shouldn't bury our heads in the sand when it comes to bullyism 

Best quotes: 
“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.” 
“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”

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]]> 2018-10-29 10:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297934412 OUT OF MY MIND - Sharon M. Draper elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297939356 Plot: Melody is very smart, but nobody knows it because she can't speak: she has cerebral palsy. How can she express her feelings?

Read it if you think that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

Best quotes: 
“What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.” 
“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”

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]]> 2018-10-29 10:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297939356 THE GIVER - Lois Lowry elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297941640 Plot: Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.

Read it if you have a pessimistic view of our future.

Best quotes: 
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” 
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

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]]> 2018-10-29 11:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297941640 THE BFG - Roald Dahl elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297943314 Plot: Sophie is kidnapped by a giant; scared to death, she later finds out that his name is BFG (Big Friendly Giant). His mission? To destroy nightmares and replace them with good dreams. But not all giants are like him, so the BFG decides to stop them from eating human beings.

Read it if you like playing with words and you love finding others' mistakes while they speak (the BFG cannot speak English properly).

Best quotes: 
“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

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]]> 2018-10-29 11:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/297943314 INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN - Thanhha Lai elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/299293974 Plot: Hà lives in America now; she doesn't speak any English and can't understand the American society. She misses her country, Vietnam, but she can't go back because of the war. Will she learn English and to love the USA? 

Read it if you like poetry and you're struggling to learn English. 

Best quotes: 
“Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell.” 
“Mother tells me,
They tease you
because they adore you.”

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]]> 2018-11-01 10:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/299293974 ALL WE HAVE LEFT - Wendy Mills elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/303639901 Plot: the novel tells us about two different stories: Jesse is trying to understand what really happened to her brother on 9/11; Alia, a Muslim girl, meets a boy inside one of the Twin Tours just before the planes collide into the buildings.

Read it if you think we are all connected somehow.

Best quotes: 
“Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.”
“Hate is just fear. Fear that we are powerless, ugly, small, nothing, so we hate people to make us feel better about ourselves, so we don't have to be so scared all the time.”

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]]> 2018-11-13 10:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/303639901 MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN - Ransom Riggs and Cassandra Jean elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/303648006 Plot: after he saw his beloved grandpa being killed by a monster, Jacob travels back in time to understand who is grandpa really was. He soon finds himself in an orphanage, where children seem to be a bit 'peculiar'...

Read it if you loved the novel and you want to see if you and the illustrator share the same idea about the characters; it is the book for you if you believe in superpowers, too.

Best quotes: 
“What an unchallenging world it would be if we always got things right on the first go?”
“Hate is just fear. Fear that we are powerless, ugly, small, nothing, so we hate people to make us feel better about ourselves, so we don't have to be so scared all the time.”

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]]> 2018-11-13 10:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/303648006 THIS ONE SUMMER - Jillianj Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/307514508 Rose and Windy always spend their summer at the same place, but this summer is different: new problems are rising and they are growing fast. Will their friendship survive this one summer?

Read it if you believe in friendship and miss your childhood summer holidays

Best quotes: 
“Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything.”

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]]> 2018-11-25 15:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/307514508 NIMONA - Noelle Stevenson elirizzardi1 https://padlet.com/elirizzardi1/z5hf9lvlonz5/wish/307514533 Plot: Nimona is a shapeshifter with a knack for villainy, Lord Ballister is looking for revenge. They team up to prove that the good guys are not as innocent as they look.

Read it if you like fantasy books, you think that everybody has a dark side and you'd like to laugh a bit while reading.

Best quotes: 
“You can't just go round murdering people. There are rules, Nimona.”

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