Book Detail
Home Place |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Dragonwagon, Cresent | Illustrator: Pinkney, Jerry | ||||||||
| Title: Home Place | Date: 1990 | ||||||||
| Publisher: Macmillian | City: New York | ||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: | ISBN, hardback: 0-689-71758-X | ||||||||
Recommended audience: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): fiction | |||||||||
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Summary: |
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| While on a hike, a family discovers the site of a ruined house. They find a few abandoned objects and, through terse and poetic words, imagine the family who once lived there. Through superior illustrations Pinkney evokes a world that is part dream and part history. | |||||||||
Teaching Ideas: |
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| Teachers may want to spend time thinking of ways that they can tie this book in with the role of imagination. The structure of this book is the past, present, and future. In terms of family history, students could write about a family artifact and imagine its past and future. Students could use the book to begin a study of archeology. The book could be read aloud to a wide age range. | |||||||||
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