Author: Nora Raleigh BaskinCopyright: 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York
Age Level: 10-14 and up
Reading Levels:
o Fountas & Pinnell – X Fiction
o Lexile – 640
o Accelerated Reader – 4.1
Pages: 208 paperback
Genre: Fiction/Realistic Fiction
“Neurotypicals like it when you look them in the eye just because you are not looking at someone does not mean you are not listening. I can listen better when I am not distracted by a person’s face: What are their eyes saying? Is that a frown or a smile? How can you listen to all those words when you have to think about all of that stuff?” – from Anything But Typical
Suggested delivery: Read aloud, small group read, independent read
Links:
· Reading Group Guide http://books.simonandschuster.com/Anything-But-Typical/Nora-Raleigh-Baskin/9781416963783/reading_group_guide
· To purchase the book
· YouTube video Book Talk (Pre Reading/Initiation)
· Book Literature Study(During/Post Reading Activities)
3 teaching suggestions - using the book with students in grades 4-6
1. Setting up Virtual Pen Pals for communicating and the sharing of ideas
2. Similes and Metaphor study
3. Try Storyboarding as a communication and organizing tool/Comic strip
Key Vocabulary:
1. abstract
2. disorder
3. appreciation
4. confluence
5. bombarding
6. convention
7. grapple
8. dilemma
9. facetious
10. squinched
Before Reading Strategy: KWL about Autism/Text Impressions, First Lines
During Reading Strategy: Directed Reading–Thinking Activity,Prediction Relay
After Reading Strategy: Sentence/Picture Story board Pre-Writing/Drafting, Question the Author
A writing activity that requires the students to respond to the text to demonstrate inferential comprehension
Awards, Reviews, Honors or Mentions: “As Jason explains, there’s really only one kind of plot: “Stuff happens. That’s it.” - from Anything But Typical
o Junior Library Guild Selection 2009
o Indie Booksellers for the Summer 2009 Kids' List
o ALA Notable Children's Books
o ALA Schneider Family Book Award
o Bank Street Best Books of the Year
o Booklist Editors' Choice
o CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
o CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
o Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List (VT)
o Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee
o IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
o Maine Student Book Award Master List
o NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
o South Carolina Book Award Nominee
o Tennessee Book award nominee 2012
o Kentucky book award nominee
o Nebraska book award nominee 2012
o Garden State book award nominee 2010 (New Jersey)
o Maryland Black-eyed Susan nominee 2011
o 2011-2012 Iowa Teen Award nominee
o Minnesota Youth reading awards 2011-2012 nominee
o 2010-2011 Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
o 2004 Newbery Medal Winner
o A #1 National Bestseller
o A Junior Library Guild Selection
o Starred Review from the School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly
Other Books by the Author or that may follow:
o What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, 2001
o Almost Home, 2005
o Basketball (Or Something Like It), 2006
o In the company of crazies, 2007
o The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, 2008
Topics from the book: Adolescents with special needs, Autism Spectrum Disorders, characters who write, first person narration, point of view and perspective, relationships, self- concept
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