I must apologize for my long absence from posting to this blog! It’s been a busy spring and summer with lots of changes to our websites, revisions to nearly all of our resources and lots of time spent reading novels for our FACS By The Book website. We’re still deeply involved in all of these projects, but I thought I’d take a few minutes to tell you about our new edition of A Novel Approach to FACS—Fiction in the FACS Classroom.
When I originally wrote A Novel Approach in 2007, I wasn’t aware just how quickly novels, particularly teen novels, go out publication. Three of the novels that I included in this resource are no longer available from the publishers: Rules by Cynthia Lord, Chicks with Sticks by Elizabeth Lenhard, and Dish #1: Stirring It Up by Diane Muldrow. Individual copies of these great novels can still be found, but because classroom sets are almost impossible to acquire, I will be replacing those novels in the 2011 edition of A Novel Approach to FACS. I will also be replacing Chew On This, the only work of non-fiction in the 2007 edition.
The novels that will be replacing the out-of-print novels are: Artichoke’s Heart by Suzanne Supplee, Close to Famous and Hope Was Here, both by Joan Bauer, The Cupcake Queen by Heather Helper and Lynn Visible by Julia DeVillers.
The new edition of A Novel Approach to FACS should be ready for distribution August 1. I hope you’ll check out these great teen novels and consider making reading a part of your FACS curriculum for the 2011 – 2012 school year.
Have a Fresh FACS day!
Ramona
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