A Year of Reading

Amazing Face by Rebecca Kai Dotlich Amazing, your face. Amazing. It shows there will be trails to follow, porches to wave from, ...

I Wanna Be Mature by A. E. ten nine eight seven six five four three two one some days each y...

When I received these two books as review copies, there was no question in my mind about what I would do next -- I handed them first...

I have a new student. His family has been in the country since November. On his second day in our class, he started teaching me Arabic....

...this is John F. Kennedy:

Listening by Jean Valentine My whole life I was swimming listening beside the daylight world like a dolphin beside a boat —no, swallowed ...

I am reading The Search For WondLa to my fourth graders. I almost told this English Language Learner to put her paper away during read alo...

(click the image to get a larger, clearer view) This was an unsolicited-by-me blog post on one of my students' blogs...on our snow day ...

So, I loved Edward Tulane before I read it aloud to my class. I am a huge Kate DiCamillo fan and love her work. All of it. I especially l...