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Category Archives: Middle Grades
The Humming Room
The Humming Room by Ellen Potter Roo has always kept to herself. Perhaps it was this tendency that kept her safe as her family was killed. Once Roo is officially on her own, rather than just functionally on her own, … Continue reading
Let’s Go Geocaching
DK Readers: Boys’ Life Series: Let’s Go Geocaching by John McKinney Ed Note: This was originally scheduled to be posted during my Nov. treasure hunt month, but it got delayed. Oops! I would expect after reading a passel of scavenger … Continue reading
Posted in Middle Grades, Primary Grades
Tagged clean, geocaching, non-fiction, treasure hunt
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Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters
Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters by Shannon Hale If you forget your library card, my library makes you pay them a dollar to check out books. I don’t usually forget my library card, because it’s kept on my phone by … Continue reading
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Drama
Drama by Raina Telgemeier Drama is aptly named. Perhaps, most obviously because the bulk of the book centers around a drama production and almost certainly because the love lives of tweens involved are filled with drama. But the real drama is … Continue reading
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier, Illustrations by Marc Lizano, Ink by Greg Salsedo A little girl wakes in the night and finds her grandmother is still up. She asks if her grandmother has had a … Continue reading
Big Nate and Friends
Big Nate and Friends by Lincoln Peirce Big Nate is the first book I’ve read this month that really does read as a comic rather than a graphic novel. It doesn’t have linear cohesive plot; it’s a series of short … Continue reading
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka I think at one point or another every kid has wondered about the school lunch ladies. What do they do when they’re not dishing up cardboard textured pizza or drippy … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, graphic novel, school, spies
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Roller Girl
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson This book is wildly, painfully cool. It has the power to make you feel excited and giddy and like strapping on roller skates and getting to it. Evidently, this is not an uncommon reaction, even … Continue reading
El Deafo
El Deafo by Cece Bell I used to teach a unit on memoirs and autobiographies to third graders and while I had some pretty great books for my reading groups, none of them could have touched the excellence that is El … Continue reading
Out From Boneville
BONE #1: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith My prior knowledge of the Bone series is this: The school librarian at my K-4 elementary school had a sign hanging by her desk saying that students who wished to take out … Continue reading
