272 pages, Fiction, ISBN-10 0763688371.
This book is about a girl named Jena who helped saved her village from being isolated from the world after the mountain shook. For this village, the thing called mica is very essential to their life-sustaining. The people can't get their food or their needs so Jena and other six girls are assigned to go tunnel deep into the earth in order to provide for the well-being of the village. Jena was a leader of the group and she was so brave and the girls respected her and rely on her. There are lot of bad things could happen to the girl during their tunnel deep such as Rockfall but Jena was still brave. Jena learned that the mothers are training their little daughters to become great tunnelers in the future and made her think of a lots of things. Jena finally discover a Single stone that can save the village by bringing down the mountain.
As I read this book, I learned that Jena was a very good girl to her village. There are lots of topics in Social Studies that you can use this book as your examples for. For instance, you can use this book to find example of being good citizenship. Jena is a great example of a good citizenship to her village in leading her team. Also we can related to Families. Students can identify what are the positives and negative things that the families in the village did. Also we can talk about the discovery of a Stone and tied to other famous fact stories about some men that they discovered something in life. For instance, we can talk about Issac Newton and some other men. Then we can encourage our students to try think of something that they can discover or invent on their own as their project.
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