Something to Hold

It's 1962 and Kitty has just turned eleven when Dad's government job moves the family all the way across the country to the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. She knows how to be "the new kid," but it's a whole new kind of starting over this time. [more...]

Clarion Books
Ages 9 to 12
ISBN 978-0-547-55813-4
E-Book available: ISBN 978-0-547-67746-0

2015 Sasquatch Award Nomine, Washington Library Media Association
2015 Jefferson County (Oregon) Community Read
2014 Hood River County (Oregon) Reads youth selection
2012 Scandiuzzi Washington State Book Award for middle grade/young adult
2012 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People National Council for the Social Studies and the
Children's Book Council

Getting Started with Literature Circles
Katherine Schlick Noe and Nancy J. Johnson

With the help of this hands-on guide, teachers in grades K-8 find the support they need to get started with literature circles. [more...]

ISBN 978-0-926842-97-7 pbk

Literature Circles Resource Guide
Bonnie Campbell Hill, Katherine Schlick Noe, and Nancy J. Johnson

This resource guide provides the practical support teachers need to make literature circles succeed. The Resource Guide offers suggestions for instructional planning, as well as forms to reproduce for student use. [more...]

ISBN 978-1929024230 pbk

Literature Circles in Middle School: One Teacher's Journey
Bonnie Campbell Hill, Katherine Schlick Noe, and Janine A. King

Open the pages of this book and put yourself into a terrific literature circles environment — one where the focus is specifically on your middle school learners! [more...]

ISBN 1-929024-50-9 pbk

Literature Circles and Response
Edited by Bonnie Campbell Hill, Nancy J. Johnson, and Katherine Schlick Noe

One of the foundational books on literature circles! [more...]

ISBN 978-0926842489 pbk