look at the calendar below for the work you will be doing while christina is away (may 12-14) and the pages for which you are responsible for your book club meeting (on the 2nd page).  

book club project options

additional nonfiction resources

Click on the resources below to read more about social issues that are present in your book. 


Homeless Bird

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316493/The-heartbreaking-plight-Indias-widows-How-women-kicked-homes-shunned-society-husbands-die.html
• http://www.fordfoundation.org/2011-annual/youth-sexuality-and-rights/map/#/legal-age-of-marriage/Niger 

The Skin I'm In

• http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/15/florida-bullying-arrest-lakeland-suicide/2986079/
• http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-lehighvalley/three-allen-high-students-charged-with-harassment-and-ethnic-intimidation/25761478?item=0
  

Sold

• http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/08/09/opinion/sunday/01exposures-ss.html?ref=sunday&_r=0#1 
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/opinion/kristof-not-quite-a-teen-yet-sold-for-sex.html

Speak

• http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/15/florida-bullying-arrest-lakeland-suicide/2986079/
• http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/25382294/2014/04/29/pcso-high-school-student-suspected-of-13-sexual-assaults
  

Totally Joe 

• http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/12/02/school-encourages-homophobic-humiliation-student-punishment 
• http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/15/9-year-old-boy-bullied-over-my-little-pony-lunch-bag-school-reportedly-plays-hardball-but-not-with-who-youre-thinking/