Letting Swift River Go |
Publication Information
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Author: Yolen, Jane |
Illustrator: Cooney, Barbara |
Title: Letting Swift River Go |
Date: 1992 |
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company |
City: Boston |
ISBN, paperback: 0-316-9689-4 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
This book tells the story of a community's act of selling up the houses and land to the government so that a water reservoir can be built. It is told from the view point of a woman who felt as though she lost her childhood because all her landmarks had been covered with water. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book lends itself to several teaching ideas and lots of good discussion. It makes a good companion with Levine's Pearl Moscowitz for the topic of community activism. Students could study environmental changes (from non-natural forces). Students might interview elderly family members about major changes they have experienced, write them up, edit them, and put them together in a class book. |
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