genre --realistic fiction

I find that even though one of my true passions in life is the love of film, I am apprehensive, and in fact have yet to show a video in the classroom.  There seems to be some backlash against video and film in education that I really don't understand but somehow feel as a residual of some era or event I wasn't a part of.

I am a big Kevin Henkes fan.  He's the author and illustrator of great picture books, like Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Sheila Rae, the Brave, Owen, and Wemberly Worried, just to name a few.  But, he has also penned some well received novels for intermediate readers, 4th to 6th grade reading level.  Bird Lake Moon is the first of these novels that I've read.  I picked it up at the library since Olive's Ocean, his most highly acclaimed novel, wasn't in.