K-12 Evaluated Resource Collection

Focused Education evaluates print and digital learning resources, to support teachers with decision-making when selecting resources for classroom instruction. This is an evaluation process, and not an approval process.

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Firefly
Dowding, P.
Thirteen-year-old Firefly lives in a park across the street from her mother’s home when she is discovered by a social worker and removed from her mother’s care. Placed with her aunt, she goes to school and makes friends but suffers from PTSD and disassociation from living with a mother who struggles with substance abuse and has subjected Firefly to physical abuse, neglect, and parentification. This engaging Canadian work, suitable as a read-aloud, literature circle, or novel study for secondary classrooms, can launch discussions about sensitive issues of child abuse and neglect, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, and kinship and foster care.
Collections:
Health, Novel
Subject:
English Language Arts
Grades:
  • 8-10
Evaluation Date:
  • White maple leaf from flag on red background Canadian Content
  • magnifying glass over work says consider Social Considerations

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