As I organized my notes for our Holocaust unit of study, I started making a list of the books I would be making available to my students for their book clubs. At this point I had a pretty good selection of WWII novels, allowing each book club to focus on a different aspect of the Holocaust and WWII. Using our essential questions, they would be focusing on these different aspects and then sharing them with the class at the end of the unit.
So far my list was pretty varied:
We would be reading The Devil’s Arithmetic as a class read-aloud, but it still felt like something was missing. As I perused my bookshelves, I found one more book that would be perfect for my developing readers and would cover an aspect of the war that was not already represented. T4 a novel is a verse novel about the T4 program, which targeted the disabled. Perfect! But our school library did not have any copies and I only had one. WIthout even thinking, I logged onto Amazon and placed an order for more copies. I also quickly checked our local library and found two more copies that students would be able to check out. Within minutes, I had completed my book club planning!