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I'm an elementary librarian in need of justifying the amount of books I reads aimed at eleven year-olds by organizing them on a nifty website.
Currently reading
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Dinosaur Trouble
Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters
The Coming of the Dragon
The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm
Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged
Code Name Verity
The wish is that everybook would be this good. And yep, I turned around and began it again.
If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
Clever and informative. How do I get a house on the ocean that will turn with the sun?
Question Boy Meets Little Miss Know-It-All (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
Fun text, dreadful illustrations.
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
This book entered my life in a timely manner, as I've been cheating my way through several games of Words with Friends. The type of sporting book I can really get behind.
The One and Only Ivan
Began almost too depressing to finish; then, wondrous events began to unfold. Kathi Appelt's THE UNDERNEATH meets CHARLOTTE'S WEB.
No Ordinary Day
A book that tackles street children and leprosy and still manages to make you smiles between the tears.
Breaking Stalin's Nose
I try not to question "the committee's" choices but this book flew across the room when I finished. It reads like a short story which should be featured on NPR's selected shorts. NOT and early chapter book.Really, Schmidt and Ness didn't make the cut, but this got through?
The Fault in Our Stars
Sometime you want another star or a star of a different color when the allowed maximum does not quiet do.
Beauty Queens
Had a good time with this book, but found fatigue setting in after awhile. Felt like I was reading about caricatures instead of characters. And although I whole-heartily endorse most of what Bray was preaching about gender roles and the media after so much it began to feel didactic.There was some great stuff here however. I would love to teach an older group of students about media literacy using this book.
Bone Dog
What I though was going to be just one more dead dog book, turned out to be all kinds of fun.
Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy)
Betsy Ray lives the adolescence every girl wishes she had and all of us deserved.
The Knife of Never Letting Go: bk. 1 (Chaos Walking)
All I can say is, if ruddy Aaron and Mr. Prentis Jr. can keep playing the resurection game, then I'd better be seeing more Manchee in the next book.
Press Here
This may rival CAN YOU MAKE A SCARY FACE as the best story timebook ever. Just did it with 5 different Kindergarten classes and it was an overwhelming hit. Some of them really thought they had the power to effect what would happen on the next page. Apparently Tullet has several other companion picture books coming out this year. Bring it on I say. Meta at it's best.
