All day I’m being positive when students want to check out a book. If, for whatever reason, they’re interested in a book, then go for it.
But then I sit back and think about some of the concepts that made it to publishing. Here is a sampling of covers that I checked back in today.
Anyone who works with students aged 12-15 can probably identify the author, but I won’t mention his name. The whole set-up for this book is that Tod gets a new hockey stick that he thinks will make him a better player. He doesn’t feel worthy of the stick so he works really hard to deserve the stick until he finally realizes that the power was in him all along.
Really? The Mockingjay Rebellion is poised to tear apart the dystopian Panem so that no generation will suffer the Hunger Games…or Tod decides to use a different hockey stick.
Look who’s playing first base? That’s the whole intrigue? Let me take a guess…is it the kid on the cover? You know, the one who has the umpire with questionable motives staring at him.
This one has the whole “Mom is coaching my team” thing going on. (Didn’t Roseanne star in one of those movies?) The only reason this one stood out to me is that the mom looks like Andy Samberg. “I’m on a base.”
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