A Year of Reading

The Professor's Daughter by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert Translated by Alexis Siegel First Second, 2007 (originally, 1997) I predict ...

Mentor Texts tagged us for this meme. Franki's answers are first, in green . Mary Lee's answers are in purple . We each answered...

I picked up this book at Cover to Cover a few weeks ago. I am always looking for short, easier chapter books that have depth--things to talk...

The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter by Katheri Kirkpatrick Holiday House, 2007 Guest review...

My recent reading has not turned loose of me just yet. I took out my copy of Poets Against the War (edited by Sam Hamill) and browsed a bi...

Greetings From Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley ( website ) Letters from Rapunzel by Sara Lewis Holmes ( website and blog ) How to Steal a ...

The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles This might be my Newbery pick of the moment. I LOVE Deborah Wiles. I loved LOVE, RUBY LAVENDER...

SMART ANSWERS TO TOUGH QUESTIONS by Elaine Garan is one big gift to teachers from Elaine Garan. It is hard to teach well these days. With th...

J.K. Rowling will ("probably") write a "Potter encyclopedia" about the characters in the Harry Potter series. Meredith V...

The Cat Master by Bonnie Pemberton Marshall Cavendish, 2007 review copy courtesy of publisher Remember my former student who is the Warriors...