Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko. CA: Viacom International Inc., 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1435217072 Q4/5P

            This book is unique and imaginative and could be used in a middle school creative writing class. Aang is a young boy with powers to bend air and he is the last of his kind. He is playful and mischievous and he must save the world! Children will identify with the child-like insecurities of the characters who show their humanity despite their powers. Students could create stories about what power they would like to have and why.

-Christina Gendron, 7/31/09