Units for Books

This section of our website is currently being revised so that unit plans which follow the most current YAL Units-for-Books guidelines will be specified. More recent units will be added soon. Units below do not fit the new format, but while revisions are being made, teachers may still find the units and activities useful.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: 2006
Multiple units
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

American Plague by Jim Murphy
Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006

Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
Subjects: English, Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th - 10th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008-09

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th - 10th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008-09

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

Birchbark House and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: 2006

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Technology, Social Studies
Grade Level: 7th
Posted: 2006
Multiple units
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
See American Plague

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

Handbook for Boys by Walter Dean Myers
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

Night by Elie Weisel
See Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

Persepolis by Mariane Satrapi
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th - 10th
Posted: YAL Conference October 2008
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2008-09

Rozdina by Karen Cushman
See Worth / Rozdina

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Night by Elie Weisel
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

Sahara Special by Esme Codell
Subjects: Language Arts, Dance
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Science, Science
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2005/2006

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
Subjects: Language Arts, Art
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: YAL Conference March 2006

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School and High School
Posted: 2006
Multiple units

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Technology
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: middle school
Posted: 2006

True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: 2006

We Rode the Orphan Trains by Andrea Warren
Worth by A. LaFaye
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies
Grade Level: 8th
Posted: YAL Conference March 2007
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2006/2007

Witness by Karen Hesse
Subjects: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Posted: 2006
Multiple units

Worth by A. LaFaye
Rozdina by Karen Cushman
Subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: 6th
Posted: March 2007
See also We Rode the Orphan Trains