• Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/3/15

    I got a lot of reading done again this week and I hope t finish up the last book today.  I thought I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest was an amazing, fast-paced read described as a cyber-thriller and one I couldn’t put down.  A Little Bit of Spectacular by…

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    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 7/27/15

    I got a lot of reading done this week, mostly because I read a few shorter books and one that I didn’t want to put down.  This week I read Friends for Life by Andrew Norriss about a boy who becomes friends with a ghost who has a reason for being there and…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

    This week I was able to get back on track with three books I read!  The first book I read was called The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy.  A great story for those kids looking for mythology books – a specific focus on Norse mythology as…

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    It's Monday What Are You Reading? 7/13/2015

    i only got two books read this week… I was able to read The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz. I enjoyed this book, but it took me awhile to get through… Splendor and Glooms was faster to read I thought, but I have always enjoyed historical fiction which is exactly what…

  • Activities

    Mythology for Middle School

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    We hosted a mythology program on Monday night for our middle school students! And with 36 kids in attendance, it went really well!  I created six different activities for the kids to rotate through. I have found stations lead to minimal boredom and problems within the groups. And I always try to…

  • Lists

    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 6/29/2015

    This week I read, Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu, The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin, A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord and The Boys in the Boat:The True Story of an American Team’s Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Young Reader’s Edition).…

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    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 6/22/2015

    After 20 solid hours of reading for this year’s 48 Hour Book Challenge, I’m thinking that I’ll be taking it easy this week with my reading, maybe picking up a book or two, but not as many as I usually do.  Over the weekend, I knocked out nine books and…

  • Reviews

    48 Hour Book Challenge Review #6 

    140 Character Synopsis/Review: Ari promises to always stick with her brother, but when she must pretend nothing is wrong, she wonders how long she can last. Title: Paper Things Author: Jennifer Richard Jacobson Publisher: Candlewick Press Publication Date: 2015 Page Number: 376 pgs.