A Year of Reading

Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson HMH Books for Young Readers, 2017 review copy provided by the publisher This was ...

First there was Because of Winn Dixie  by Kate DiCamillo. This scruffy dog who smiles shows up in India Opal's life and helps her to...

Join the It's Monday! What Are You Reading party at T each Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers ! I read two great middle grade...

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk Dutton Children's Books, 2016 I almost couldn't read this book. The tension and conflict from t...

I mentioned in Wednesday's post  (about my next-in-the-graphic-novel-series TBR pile) that I love Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, a...

Ranger in Time #1: Rescue on the Oregon Trail by Kate Messner Scholastic, January 2015 ARC received from the publisher This is goi...

Now that I've started thinking about creative "right brain" ways to expand and enrich the ways I am (and my students will be) ...

I Survived #8: I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis illustrated by Scott Dawson Scholastic, 2013 review copy prov...

P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia Amistad (HarperCollins), on shelves May 21, 2013 In this sequel to One Crazy Summer , the fo...

Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Delacorte Press, 2013 review copy ARC provided by Cover to Cover Books for Young Readers It...

We are working hard in fifth grade to be more specific in our identification of genre. Knowing that a book or story is fiction or nonfictio...