Weasel

Katie, Sproles, thanks for the good use of YouTube for trailers.

DeFelice, C. (1990). Weasel. New York, NY: Avon Books.
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/3YyZyCoAqj
 

Go back in time to Ohio, 1839. Imagine you are a young boy in charge of your whole land while your father is away. You have to keep taking care of the animals and your younger sister until your Pa returns, all the while knowing something is wrong because he hasn’t come home yet. This is how our story Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice starts out. One night Nathan and Molly are visited by a silent, strange man motioning for them to follow him into the woods. Nathan knows it has something to do with his father, but is it safe? As Nathan and Molly set out into the woods, their lives will forever be changed. Something or someone is lurking in the woods, someone dangerous. They call him Weasel. He sleeps by day and hunts by night, and kills for fun. Can Nathan get in and out of the woods without running into Weasel? Can he save his Pa? Join Nathan, Molly, and Ezra on a suspenseful journey that will make you turn page after page. You won’t want to put it down!

Number the Stars

A look at what iMovie and a creative mind can do with a book trailer - thanks, Megan Crabb!

Lowry, L. (1989). Number the stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/I6RcNXdVDEg

In a world where being Jewish is punishable by death, one family risks it all to save their friends.

“How brave are you, little Annemarie?” uncle Henrik asks his ten-year-old niece. Will you be able to save your best friend from relocation? Will you be a hero?

Number the Stars just may be the most powerful book you’ll ever read about he Holocaust. Lois Lowry has captured the essence of what it meant to be a child in 1940’s Holocaust when running in the street could get you locked up, and harboring Jews could get you killed. 

For ten-year-old Annemarie, this is the world in which she lives. She doesn’t understand why there is no sugar for cupcakes, why her sister Kirsten can’t have real leather shoes, and why her best friend Ellen has to wear a gold star on her sleeve. When her family decides to help Ellen and her parents go into hiding, she is thrown into the very scary world of war. Will she be brave enough to save her friend?

Hatchet

Link to a Book Trailer by Beth Gordon: http://bgordon8895.blogspot.com/2013/08/beth-gordon-book-trailer.html

Players in Pigtails - Book Trailer

Thanks, Michelle Czepyha, for a book trailer example I can share.

Corey, S. (2003). Players in pigtails. New York: Scholastic.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/689569/REOL/docs/Trailers/Czepyha-Players-in-Pigtails.m4v

Fever 1793

Student post for a booktalk that integrates technology! Yay, Stephanie!

Anderson, L. (2002).  Fever 1793.  New York:  Aladdin Paperbacks.

http://animoto.com/play/d2C0K3C3SB3D4l9lUjWUaQ

Mattie Cook lives a good life.  She has her mother and grandfather and their coffeehouse.  That summer of 1793, devastation takes hold of the city of Philadelphia.  Sickness, death, and unforeseen peril are running rampant through the city.  Will Mattie survive?  Will her family?  Yellow fever has a grip on Philadelphia...and it's not letting go. Have you ever had to persevere through hard times or learn to be self-reliant?  This book is about a young girl who has to learn to do just that when forced to cope with the horror of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793.