Collect The Man With The Red Bag Depicted By Eve Bunting E-Text

for blackeyed susan.
YES for our library,

I feel a little mixed about this one, The Man with the Red Bag is about a boy who's going on a Star Tours site seeing trip by bus with his grandmother.
The story focuses a lot on the post/feelings many Americans had toward people of Middle Eastern origin,

Basically, our main character is paranoid after a man of what appears to be Iraqi origin boards the bus for the tour and, throughout the trip, refuses to part with his red bag.


I'm not sure that students in gradeswould connect with the paranoia in this story, although the main character in our story certainly does.
It seems to me that our students are a little too young to remember the events, unless their parents have talked a lot with them about the events of Septemberth.
Next year's students in gradesthose voting for the titles we nominate are between the ages ofand, which means that those voting next year were born betweenandhaving only been a few years old when the terrorist attack ofoccurred.


It's all a little too much paranoia for me, but I'm sure a few kids could get really into it.
Worth giving a try, at least, In March of, just six months after the/attacks, Kevin is on a vacation bus tour of the Great Salt Lake, Yellowstone National Park, the Tetons, and Mount Rushmore with his grandmother.
There is a man on the bus who is acting unusually he carries a red duffel bag everywhere he goes and won't let anyone touch it or see what is in it, and to Kevin he looks dark, mysterious and sinister.
Kevin enlists another teen on the trip, Geneva, to help him watch Mr, Stavros' every move, and the two decide that he may be a terrorist aiming to blow up Mount Rushmore.
This is a easy read which will make you consider how we assume things based on what we think we see and how people look and that everything is not always as it appears.
th grade and up. I chose this book because sitelinkEve Bunting has written many great children's picture books, I wanted to see if a longer book by her would be as good, Sadly, I was disappointed. I think the story could have been told in a much shorter version as this book was quite drawn out.


It is an interesting travel story, though, as the characters are on a bus tour of famous areas in the western US, starting with Salt Lake City, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Cody, WY, and the Black Hills, SD.
This book was an easy read, but also had a very suspenseful kind of feel, It was easy to connect with at the time i started reading it, which was a few years ago, because the girls in it were my age.
I thought this book would be an interesting book about judging people in the post/world, It was a bad read predicable silly twists characters that were not realistic and several story lines left hanging.
I dont think any young reader could relate to the main characters, Great quick read

Loved the theme in this book, I'm excited to read it with my students! Perfect perspective for a younger reader, “We dont trust anymore, and thats the saddest thing of all, ”

Eve Buntings chapter book is not about the events of September,, but it is about the effects and repercussions that we are still experiencing from/.


Kevin Saunders and his grandmother go on a bus trip out West and immediately notice a fellow traveler, Charles Stavros, a man who says he is Greek but raised in America.
A man who Kevin thinks looks like “he might be Saudi Arabian or even Iraqian, if there is such a word.
He was dark skinned, with bushy black eyebrows and a bushier mustache, ”And a man who constantly carries a red bag which he refuses to put down, even on a rafting trip.


Some of the other passengers worry that he is a terrorist and that his face looks familiar.
As Kevins Grandma says, “Its sad, People are quick to jump

to conclusions now, If someone looks like that”

Kevin, a voracious reader of Joan Lowery Nixon mystery novels and his “muchread howtowriteamystery book and is convinced that Stavros is a terrorist, is anxious to solve the mystery of the red bag which he is sure is holding a bomb.
His elicits the help of the other young passenger, Geneva, who also wants to be a hero and appear on the Oprah show.
Genevas eyes opened wide. He does look exactly like a terrorist, Ive never seen a real one, but Ive seen pictures on TV, ”

As they follow Stavros, even keeping watch on his various hotel rooms all night, they become more and more convinced that he is going to bomb an American monument, possibly Mount Rushmore, and that they can save the day.
And then Kevin can write the mystery, “I didnt want him to be Greek, I didnt want him to be innocent, I didnt want to lose my big mystery adventure, But just think how scary it would be if he wasnt Greek, If he was something else! Having a mystery also meant having a terrorist aboard, And a bomb. Criminy! What did I want”

What they find ties Stavros to/, but not in the way they think.


This is yet another perspective of the events and effects of September,, appropriate for gradereaders, An OK book about the racism and fear the gripped the country less than a year after/, I think the story went on just a bit too long, Even though I knew Stavros was not a terrorist, I did want to know what was in the bag.
I had my suspicions, and I was right, but the ending was just too tidy, Don't even bother picking up this book, Predictable and insulting. "Right from the beginning I was suspicious of the man, Right from the minute he got on the bus, Maybe it was because he acted so strangely about the bag, But mostly it was because of the way he looked, And because my ears started tingling at the sight of himan ancient warning of danger, not to be ignored.
" Six months after/, everyone wanted life to return to normal, But when Charles Stavros boards the Star Tours bus, twelveyearold Kevin Saunders is sure this exoticlooking stranger is up to no good:

He sits alone.


He has a bushy black mustache and sinister eyebrows,

He carries a red bag with him wherever he goesand even "talks" to it!

Kevin confides his suspicions to Geneva, a girl he meets on the tour bus.
Together they watch the man's every move, Kevin is convinced Stavros isn't a typical tourist, interested in the Great Salt Lake, the Grand Tetons, or even Yellowstone National Park.


Kevin knows Stavros, red bag in hand, has something much bigger in mind, and it's up to Kevin to save the day, and maybe even the world.
I dont hate it but its not a really good book A young boy taking a bus trip with his grandmother shortly after/becomes concerned that a passenger may be a terrorist trying to blow up Mt.
Rushmore. I do appreciate that we don't have much chapter book fiction yet to help us process/especially for children who remember and lived through that time, and this book tries to do that.
However, it was obvious from the beginning that Kevin and his sortof friend Geneva are on the wrong track and that they will regret their actions.
Kevin's voice doesn't ring true as a preteen boy either rather he read as if an adult were trying to sound like one.
The plot seemed very stilted to me as well or maybe formulaic is a better word, This isn't a bad book, but it isn't the great book it could have been either, Also known as Evelyn Bolton and A, E. Bunting. Anne Evelyn Bunting, better known as Eve Bunting, is an author with thanbooks, Her books are diverse in age groups, from picture books to chapter books, and topic, ranging from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles.
Eve Bunting has won several awards for her works, Bunting went to school in Ireland and grew up with storytelling, In Ireland, “There used to be Shanachies the shanachie was a storyteller who went from house to house telling his tales of ghosts and fairies, of old Irish heroes and battles still to be won.
Maybe Im a bit of a Shanchie myself, telling stories to anyone who will listen, ” This storytelling began as an inspiration for Bunting and continues with her work, In, Also known as Evelyn Bolton and A, E. Bunting. Anne Evelyn Bunting, better known as Eve Bunting, is an author with thanbooks, Her books are diverse in age groups, from picture books to chapter books, and topic, ranging from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles.
Eve Bunting has won several awards for her works, Bunting went to school in Ireland and grew up with storytelling, In Ireland, “There used to be Shanachies the shanachie was a storyteller who went from house to house telling his tales of ghosts and fairies, of old Irish heroes and battles still to be won.
Maybe Im a bit of a Shanchie myself, telling stories to anyone who will listen, ” This storytelling began as an inspiration for Bunting and continues with her work, In, Bunting moved to the United States with her husband and three children, A few years later, Bunting enrolled in a community college writing course, She felt the desire to write about her heritage, Bunting has taught writing classes at UCLA, She now lives in Pasadena, California, sitelink.