A Year of Reading

Liesl Shurtliff is a favorite author here at A Year of Reading. Franki has reviewed Rump , Jack , and Grump . Liesl has a...

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey (My review from GoodReads) Yes, yes I did. I made my students wait for this book unt...

...although I feel slightly ridiculous because the contrast between this and the book Franki posted about earlier this week is...um...stunni...

How will your students know that graphic novels are a format and not a genre , unless you have titles that are history , memoir , and now......

  This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around Still Learning to Read--teaching reading to ...

There are some great new series books out in late 2016 or early 2017.  These are a few I recently discovered! The Bad Guys by Aaron Bla...

Welcome to my new favorite nonfiction series, the Disgusting Critters series , or, as originally published in F...

I am always looking for good new nonfiction series that are accessible to my 3rd graders. I recently received a copy of OCEAN ANIMALS fr...

Andrews McMeel Publishing is going to make my graphic novel readers VERY happy. Not one new book for our classroom library...not even two o...

Manatee Rescue by Nicola Davies Candlewick, January 2016 I read aloud The Lion Who Stole My Arm by Nicola Davies earlier this year (...

What This Story Needs is a Hush and a Shush by Emma J. Virján Harper, 2016 review copy provided by the publisher My wish came true!...

At Nerd Camp, we were able to go into a room filled with books and choose 2 books--what a fun time!  You can imagine the scene with...

It seems that no matter how many books I have, it just isn't enough to keep 25 3rd graders engaged every day.  There always seems to be...

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

On Friday, we had our first Books and Breakfast Book Club.  Kids who signed up were dropped off at school 30 minutes early.  We had donuts...