This Week’s Book talks 12/4-8

8 Dec

Monday: In anticipation of an author visit to our school library by April Henry, I booktalked her only book in my classroom library, The Body in the Woods.

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Tuesday, I chose Kenneth Oppel’s The Boundless,  just because.

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Thursday, I booktalked Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo. A lot of kids had already read it, but they all loved it.

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Friday: I learned from a student that she’d seen the movie and TV versions of  The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, but never read the book. I had to remedy that!

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