Title:
Kepler's Dream
Bibliographic Information:
Bell, J. (2012). Kepler's Dream. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Weekly Requirement:
Bibliographic Information:
Bell, J. (2012). Kepler's Dream. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Weekly Requirement:
Pleasure Reading Middle School/High School
Plot Description:
Kepler's Dream is about eleven-year-old Ella and the summer she and her dog must spend with the eccentric grandmother she hardly knows while her mother goes through cancer treatments. Ella misses her mother terribly and finds her grandmother to be weird and detached, showing more concern for her huge collection of books that for her granddaughter. Ella is miserable and can't wait to go home to her mother, but one day her grandmother's prized book Kepler's Dream is stolen and they are left with the mystery of who took it and why. Ella decides she must find out who stole it and goes on a search that leads her not only to the book but to an understand of her family's past as well.
Quantitative Reading Level:
Lexile 820
Qualitative Reading Analysis:
Kepler's Dream is written in American English and is told from Ella's first person point of view. Ella's narration is simple and conventional. The book is organized in chronological order. The hints a character provides Ella about the missing book's whereabouts add complexity because they foreshadow where it will be. There are some references to Kepler's Dream but the book explains them well so very little cultural and literal background knowledge is required to understand it.
Content Area:
English Language Arts Reading Literature
Maine Common Core Content Area Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Curriculum Suggestion:
This is a great book for student independent reading. English teachers can teach it at the same time science teachers do an astronomy or physics unit that discusses Kepler's laws.
Awards:
Best Children's Book of the Year 2013, Bank Street College of Education
Reading the West 2012 Children's Award, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association
Plot Description:
Kepler's Dream is about eleven-year-old Ella and the summer she and her dog must spend with the eccentric grandmother she hardly knows while her mother goes through cancer treatments. Ella misses her mother terribly and finds her grandmother to be weird and detached, showing more concern for her huge collection of books that for her granddaughter. Ella is miserable and can't wait to go home to her mother, but one day her grandmother's prized book Kepler's Dream is stolen and they are left with the mystery of who took it and why. Ella decides she must find out who stole it and goes on a search that leads her not only to the book but to an understand of her family's past as well.
Quantitative Reading Level:
Lexile 820
Qualitative Reading Analysis:
Kepler's Dream is written in American English and is told from Ella's first person point of view. Ella's narration is simple and conventional. The book is organized in chronological order. The hints a character provides Ella about the missing book's whereabouts add complexity because they foreshadow where it will be. There are some references to Kepler's Dream but the book explains them well so very little cultural and literal background knowledge is required to understand it.
Content Area:
English Language Arts Reading Literature
Maine Common Core Content Area Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.6
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Curriculum Suggestion:
This is a great book for student independent reading. English teachers can teach it at the same time science teachers do an astronomy or physics unit that discusses Kepler's laws.
Awards:
Best Children's Book of the Year 2013, Bank Street College of Education
Reading the West 2012 Children's Award, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association
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