National Book Foundation: Pete Hautman

Candace Fleming's award winning Ben Franklin's Almanac is the anchor text for a classroom guide that provides teachers with a cache of pre, during, and post-reading activities.

National Book Award winner Hautman discusses his YA novel "Invisible" and his other writing in this interview.

This page offers a story about the National Book Award for 2004, as well as a link to an audio interview with Pete Hautman.

Several related stories are featured here as heard on National Public Radio, mainly centered around King's National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters.

Pete Hautman's "Invisible" can be talked up to students with this brief booktalk. Includes subject headings for the book.

Two booktalks are available here for Pete Hautman's vampire and diabetes tale, "Sweetblood."

Here's a quick booktalk to pique the interest of students in Hautman's 2004 book, Godless.

Respected librarian and booktalker Nancy Keane offers this brief booktalk to get students interested in Hautman's satirical novel, "Rash."

This is an encyclopedia entry about Alex Haley, an African-American author whose most well-known work was Roots. There is a link to the website for the Alex Haley Foundation.

Students examine different types of foundations and non-for-profit organizations. They identify the focus of the different organizations. They finally relate the beginning of certain foundations or non-for-profit organizations with...