Amanda Zieba Learning with the Word Nerd | First Chapter Friday: Good Different || A Middle Grade Novel in Verse for Poetry Month @AmandaZiebatheWordNerd | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 minutes ago.
Friday, April 28, 2023 - It’s April and that means it’s also National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’ll be sharing a middle grade novel in verse each week! This week I’ll be sharing Good Different by neurodivergent author Meg Eden Kuyatt. This is an amazing book about one girl’s experience with discovering she is on the Autism Spectrum. Sometimes we need to read books about hard things to learn how to handle them in our own lives or to learn how to help a friend. This is one of those important books. Written as a novel in verse this book is a treasure trove of poems, emotion, discovery, and understanding.
Book Blurb: Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn’t mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it’s too late? This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Good Different is the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga.
An extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.
“The next Wonder.” -- Good Morning America
Love Novels in Verse? Check out the rest of my novel in verse playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJYz6T7HqBMbDYyVahvxl3yl
Want to increase student engagement? Try these First Chapter Friday worksheets, with both generic response and novel specific sheets for each video in this playlist! Grab them here → teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Read-Aloud-Novel-Study-Graphic-Organizer-Reading-Response-Journal-2022-7587992
Get your copy of Good Different at your school library, local indie bookstore or here → amzn.to/3HcZees
Take a look at all of the other First Chapter Friday videos in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJZCLWm7CR4yX93l3xN2conB and more Novels in verse right here: → youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJYz6T7HqBMbDYyVahvxl3yl
Wanna say thanks and fuel future creations? Buy me a virtual cup of coffee for making this (and many other!) amazing free video resources for your classroom. Click here → ko-fi.com/amandazieba_thewordnerd
Scoop up a FREE motivational quote poster set for your classroom here: amandazieba.com/teachersignup and then check out all of my educational resources in my virtual city WordNerdopolis’ school! amandazieba.com/school.
And finally, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE this channel for more great videos from the Word Nerd! Just click here: bit.ly/wordnerdonyoutube
** The videos in this First Chapter Friday Playlist were created in the spirit of: helping teachers and students find high quality and engaging books to read, promoting amazing authors and great books, and celebrating stories
Each video in this playlist features a book chosen by Amanda Zieba based on its literary merit, thematic/curriculum connection, or simply because she loves it and thinks you will too. All commentary and facts shared about the book and author were also researched/gathered by Amanda. Books were purchased by Amanda from Birdy’s Bookstore, Barnes and Noble or Amazon, unless otherwise stated. These videos are recorded and edited from Amanda’s home office in Wisconsin, USA. **
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Friday, April 28, 2023 - It’s April and that means it’s also National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’ll be sharing a middle grade novel in verse each week! This week I’ll be sharing Good Different by neurodivergent author Meg Eden Kuyatt. This is an amazing book about one girl’s experience with discovering she is on the Autism Spectrum. Sometimes we need to read books about hard things to learn how to handle them in our own lives or to learn how to help a friend. This is one of those important books. Written as a novel in verse this book is a treasure trove of poems, emotion, discovery, and understanding.
Book Blurb: Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn’t mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it’s too late? This is a moving and unputdownable story about learning to celebrate the things that make us different. Good Different is the perfect next read for fans of Counting by 7s or Jasmine Warga.
An extraordinary novel-in-verse for fans of Starfish and A Kind of Spark about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.
“The next Wonder.” -- Good Morning America
Love Novels in Verse? Check out the rest of my novel in verse playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJYz6T7HqBMbDYyVahvxl3yl
Want to increase student engagement? Try these First Chapter Friday worksheets, with both generic response and novel specific sheets for each video in this playlist! Grab them here → teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Read-Aloud-Novel-Study-Graphic-Organizer-Reading-Response-Journal-2022-7587992
Get your copy of Good Different at your school library, local indie bookstore or here → amzn.to/3HcZees
Take a look at all of the other First Chapter Friday videos in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJZCLWm7CR4yX93l3xN2conB and more Novels in verse right here: → youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJYz6T7HqBMbDYyVahvxl3yl
Wanna say thanks and fuel future creations? Buy me a virtual cup of coffee for making this (and many other!) amazing free video resources for your classroom. Click here → ko-fi.com/amandazieba_thewordnerd
Scoop up a FREE motivational quote poster set for your classroom here: amandazieba.com/teachersignup and then check out all of my educational resources in my virtual city WordNerdopolis’ school! amandazieba.com/school.
And finally, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE this channel for more great videos from the Word Nerd! Just click here: bit.ly/wordnerdonyoutube
** The videos in this First Chapter Friday Playlist were created in the spirit of: helping teachers and students find high quality and engaging books to read, promoting amazing authors and great books, and celebrating stories
Each video in this playlist features a book chosen by Amanda Zieba based on its literary merit, thematic/curriculum connection, or simply because she loves it and thinks you will too. All commentary and facts shared about the book and author were also researched/gathered by Amanda. Books were purchased by Amanda from Birdy’s Bookstore, Barnes and Noble or Amazon, unless otherwise stated. These videos are recorded and edited from Amanda’s home office in Wisconsin, USA. **
#wordnerd #mglit #readingrecommendations #amandazieba #firstchapterfriday #teachertube #novelinverse #poetrymonth #nuerodivergent #autismspectrum #selfdiscovery #autism #middlegradebooks #readaloud #comingofage #booksaboutautism #booksaboutmiddleschool #april2023 #aprilispoetrymonth #novelsinverse #gooddifferent #dragons #ilovedragons #dragonbooks #booksofpoems #poems
