![]() ![]() ![]() © All pages on this site are copyrighted by the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute. It is a Mick Harte Was Here Teacher's Guide "for promoting helmet use, bike safety, and dealing with issues of grief and loss." And if you want to try others, a site called Teachers Pay Teachers will sell you a whole raft of different teaching guides and lesson plans for the book, starting at about $3. The California Department of Health Services produced just what you need to use Mick Harte was Here as a teaching tool. The back cover says "Only available for distribution through the school market." Check this link to find a copy and more reviews on. ![]() Mick Harte Was Here was published by Scholastic in 1996. The helmet message is clear and has impact, but the book does not preach to the reader. Even an adult will find it hard to put this book down. The memories of Mick are warm and readable. These are interspersed with scenes of the family-mother, father and Phoebe-attempting to deal with their loss.Īuthor Barbara Park has done such a fine job that this book will appeal to a much wider range of readers than just middle school. She sets the scene, introduces the crash, and then spends most of the book in memories of her brother, some hilarious, some serious. The helmet connection is that the grief is for a dead brother and son who died in a crash without a helmet. ![]() It is primarily the story of a family's struggle to deal with grief. Mick Harte Was Here is a short novel for middle school students. ![]()
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