Book Detail

Letting Swift River Go

Publication Information
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:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction

HSE Descriptor(s):   

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.

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > anger
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > grief
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > loss
bullet Geography > environment
bullet Science > water
bullet Social Studies > sociology > social issues > social action > activism
bullet Communities > change


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