This week’s book talks 9/9-13

Monday

Zero Tolerance  by Claudia Mills

Tuesday

Nine, Ten by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Wednesday

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher

Thursday

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Friday

The Faitful Spy by John Hendrix

 

 

 

Last week’s book talks

In all the mayhem of the first week of school, I forgot to post about my book talks. I remembered to do them, though.

Wednesday

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles

Thursday

The Magpie’s Library by Kate Blair

Friday

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

 

 

This week’s book talks 6/10-14

I am so excited that today is the last day of the school, that I got up early and wound up some yarn so I can do celebratory cast on of my first socks of summer tonight.

This week, I talked about books I’ve taken out from the public library and plan to read this summer.

Monday

Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson

Tuesday

The Line Tender by Kate Allen

Wednesday

Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn

Finding Orion  by John David Anderson

This week’s book talks 5/20-24

Monday

House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russell

Tuesday

The Other Half of Happy  by Rebecca Balcárcel

Wednesday

Soaring Earth  by Margarita Engle

Thursday

Riverland  by Fran Wilde

A Place to Belong  by Cynthia Kadohata

This week’s book talks 5/13-17

Monday

Up For Air  by Laurie Morrison

Tuesday

Extraordinary Birds  by Sandy Stark-McGinnis

Wednesday

Over the Moon  by Natalie Lloyd

Thursday

The Girl King  by Mimi Yu

Friday

HurricanE Season  by Nicole Melleby

This week’s book talks 5/6-10

Monday

The Absence of Sparrows by Kurt Kirchmeier

Tuesday

The Great Jeff by Tony Abbott

Wednesday

No booktalk – I was marching for fully funded schools

Thursday

Poison in the Colony  by Elisa Carbone

Friday

Friendroid by M.M. Vaughan

 

This week’s book talks 4/22-26

Monday

The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers

Tuesday

Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson

 

Thursday

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Friday

Obsessed: A Memoir of my Life with OCD by Allison Britz

This week’s book talks 4/15-19

What a crazy week!

The lodge at the camp where we are supposed to attend Outdoor School next week burned down and I, along with my students and their families, have been stressed about what will happen. We are suppose to leave Tuesday, and we are still in limbo, wondering what will happen.

To relieve tension, I shared some new books. New books always make me feel better.

Monday

The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith

Tuesday

Pay Attention, carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt

Wednesday

Disaster Strikes! by Jeffrey Kluger

Thursday

Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles by Thomas Lennon

Friday

The Girls of Firefly Cabin by Cynthia Ellingsen

This week’s book talks 4/8-12

Monday

Be Prepared  by Vera Brosgol

Tuesday

Wire and Nerves by Marissa Meyer

Thursday

Legend: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu

Friday

Birdie  by Eileen Spinelli

This week’s book talks 2/18-22

President’s Day Monday, meant a 4-day week. This week (and next) is all about nonfiction books related to Black History Month.

Tuesday

Shackles from the Deep by Michael H. Cottman

Wednesday

The March Against Fear by Ann Bausum

Thursday

We’ve Got  A Job To Do by Cynthia Levinson

Friday

Locked Up For Freedom by Heather E. Schwartz