A great meme hosted by Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee at Unleashing Readers. A place for people to talk about books they have recently read and are currently reading. Also a great place to find books to add to your "must read" list.
Here is what I have recently read (click on the title to learn more about the book):
By Melissa Sarno
Another great story containing tough topics that need to be talked about! This one involves homelessness, continually changing schools, a father who has passed away, as well as a younger sibling with autism.
By Adam Gidwitz
I loved the 2017 Newbery Honor winning The Inquisitor's Tale by Gidwitz and had heard a lot of good things about The Unicorn Rescue Society. This one is definitely meant for a younger crowd than The Inquisitor's Tale, which means it is perfect for my 4th graders! I really enjoyed this cute fantasy story and look forward to reading book 2!
By Jacqueline K. Ogburn
Another great fantasy story! This one is on our state's student book award list (Maine Student Book Award) and I plan on book talking it all over the place because I absolutely adored it!
By Ellie Terry
Another great story involving serious topics that are written in a way that kids can understand them. In this one, a girl with Tourette's syndrome is starting yet another school as her mother packs her up yet again after another failed relationship. Calli has spent her life trying to hide her Tourette's, but it finally gets too hard and she decides she decides she doesn't want to hide it anymore.
Here is what I am currently reading (click on the title to learn more about the book):
By Meika Hashimoto
Another one of the books on our Maine Student Book Award list. This one is my independent reading time book at school, which means I only get to read it for about 5 minutes each day. So far I am enjoying this survival story, but I have a feeling it is going to be on the more serious side as I'm pretty sure something terrible has happened to the main character's best friend.
By Lauren Baratz-Logsted
So there is an ongoing theme here...yet another one of the books on our Maine Student Book Award list! I have only just begun this story, but already like the format of it. The main character, Mamie, is writing letters to one of the Apollo 11 astronauts, Michael Collins. It starts as a school project, but ends up being much more for Mamie. The entire book is a collection of the letters that Mamie writes to Michael Collins.
By Jennifer A. Nielsen
Jennifer Nielsen is one of my all time favorite authors! All throughout the summer I was hearing a lot of great buzz about her newest historical fiction story. The book came out right at the end of August and I immediately got it through audible. I have been listening to it on my way to and from work everyday. As is always the case with Nielsen's stories, it is amazingly written, but boy is it heavy! I am sure it is very historically accurate, which is what makes this story, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, so intense. This story is definitely for older readers, I would say middle school and up. If you like historical fiction I highly recommend this one!
