Teammates*

Teammates is a multicultural book by Tiki and Ronde Barber who are now professional football players. The two brothers show how determination and practice can lead to a victory. The book is about helping others when in need. When Tiki was fumbling the football and causing the losses for the team, his brother Ronde comes up with their own private practice to help Tiki hold on to the football when being tackled. This book is about achieving confidence, accomplishing goals, the importance of practice, and never giving up, it represents TEAMWORK!!!!!!!!

Crystal*

Walter Dean Myers is the Author for the book called Crystal and can be used in the young adult genre and is considered a multicultural book. the Main character is a girl named Crystal, who is sixteen and accidentally became a model when her church was apart of a commercial and she was discovered. Crystal quickly saw the inside of the modeling business and how it could affect your moral beliefs. She saw what it did to people around her and made a mature decision to back out of that lifestyle and become a teenager again. In this book Myers shows us that even though she was young, she still had strong morals and in a mature decision gave up modeling instead of giving up on herself, it shows the importance of family, and who your real friends are in life. This book is showing how you should love and respect yourself, friendship, and staying true to the beliefs and standards that you set for yourself.

Flying Solo

Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher can be used as a fantasy book. this book is about a six grade class that wanted to run the classroom without adult supervision. with their teacher absent, the substitute sick and the main office mix up; they might be able to accomplish this goal. things stay in order until one of the students stats to talk about a former student who passed away six months ago to that date. Flying Solo talks about the issues that our children face in the classroom and in school and it showed leadership roles, the experience of death, and facing bullies.