#2ndaryELA Twitter Chat Topic: Struggling Readers.On My Bookshelf: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.Note: The Literary Maven is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of Monsters of Men for yourself, you can find it on Amazon here. This third installment in the series would connect well with nonfiction texts about the treatment of indigenous people worldwide. A new development is that Todd and Violet finally acknowledge and act on their feelings for each other.Ĭlassroom application: The series would new appropriate for middle school or high school students. The mayor, the leader of Prentisstown's army, is behaving unusually well and Mistress Coyle, leader of the Answer, seems more agreeable than normal, but in the end they each have their own agenda. The issue of who can be trusted still plagues Todd and Violet. The settlers have weapons that could halt the war, but don't want to begin their time on Earth that way. An added complication is that the settlers, for whom Violet and her now deceased parents were scouts, have arrived. Prentisstown's army of men and the Answer's army of women now face an enemy other than each other: the Spackle, the indigenous race that they've oppressed. This book picks up right where the second book left off.
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