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As a california teacher of the year award winner, author of more than 20 books for disney and scholastic, national keynote speaker, and ceo of an edtech company bringing coding for emerging technologies into secondary classrooms, my entire career boils down to one simple ambition. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. This book was made a while ago, but i enjoy it so much because it relates to modern day times. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream. In the book homeboyz by alan lawrence sitomer, teddy andersons little. Teddy wants revenge and begins planning how to get itluckily the police interrupt his scheme before he can.
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Listen to the hoopster by alan lawrence sitomer, jd jackson for free with a 30 day free trial. Click to read more about homeboyz by alan lawrence sitomer. As for the author, alan sitomer is also a speaker and educator. Its understandable how school comes second to adolescents dealing with weighty issues in everyday life.
Alan lawrence sitomer born 1967 is californias teacher of the year 2007 and an author of young adult fiction, teacher methodology texts, and childrens literature. The author of the book, alan lawrence sitomer, was. The author of the book, alan lawrence sitomer, was californias 2007 teacher of the year. The hoopster by alan lawrence sitomer and jd jackson. He brings the dangerous and deadly side of gang violence to life, and at the same time reveals the emotional and touching relationship that develops between teddy and young micah.
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Homeboyz is a 2007 young adult fiction novel written by california teacher alan lawrence sitomer. Homeboyz by alan lawrence sitomer student book talk youtube. Audio excerpt from a catastrophe of nerdish proportions. J d jackson seventeenyearold teddy anderson, who is known on the streets as tbear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sisters death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a.
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His youngest sister, tina, is shot on the corner of a high school. Sitomer is a nationally renowned speaker specializing in. In addition to being an innercity high school english teacher and former professor in the graduate school of education at loyola marymount university, mr. Homeboyz audiobooks for free california teachers of the year program award winner alan lawrence sitomer is acclaimed for his compelling. Seventeenyearold teddy anderson is best known by his street name tbear. Alan sitomer has 19 books on goodreads with 15490 ratings. Also by alan lawrence sitomer the hoopster a teachers guidethe hoopster hiphop poetry and the classics hiphop high school homeboyz the secret story of sonia rodriguez literature tube search books by rating android app menu.
The book won the top ten picks for reluctant young adult readers award from the american library association in 2008. Computer whiz teddy and his family are sent reeling after his little sister tina is killed in the crossfire of a driveby shooting. Meettheauthor recording of the rise of the dorkasaurus. Hoopster books, book price comparison at bookstores. If youre writing a homeboyz essay and need some advice, post your alan lawrence sitomer essay question on our facebook page where fellow bookworms are always glad to help. California teachers of the year program award winner alan lawrence sitomer is acclaimed for his compelling stories set in gangplagu. Sitomer is a nationally renowned speaker specializing in engaging reluctant readers who received the 2004 award for classroom excellence from the southern california teachers. When teddys little sister,tina,was gunned down in a driveby shooting, the gang members who rule the streets in the anderson familys rapidly deteriorat. My opinion it is one of the best books i ever read it reminds me about if my sister was shot i would get revenge also. Alan lawrence sitomer is californias 2007 teacher of the year. Discover book depositorys huge selection of allan lawrence books online.
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