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A Top Fifteen List of Diversity in YA Realistic Fiction by Kristyn Dorfman
Published: 18/06/2018Hello again! You may recall I recently posted about Diversity in Speculative Fiction but I felt like it was also important to highlight some amazing realistic reads. I firmly believe that every ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Top 10 Things I’ll Miss Over Summer Break by Kris Barr Paquette
Published: 17/06/2018It’s the last week of school. I feel like I’m drowning in my to-do list. I almost have all of my classroom library re-collected. Summer Reading Books have been checked out. Field trips are over. T ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Top Ten Ways to Keep Your Child Reading Over Summer by Ginger Healy and Stacy Rivas
Published: 16/06/2018As fifth grade teachers, we work hard in our classrooms to create a strong reading community by providing lots of choice and opportunities for reading. We are proud of our students for developing thei ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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Top Ten Books for Young and Young Adult Runners by Kacy Smith
Published: 15/06/2018I love reading. I mostly love running. My reading and running lives are not dissimilar; I have reading buddies and running buddies; I have running injuries and reading injuries (papercuts are no joke) ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Jon Klassen
Published: 15/06/2018This guy. He’s got a bad case of impostor syndrome (or does he?) in Mac Barnett’s and Jon Klassen’s newest book in the Shape trilogy, Square (Candlewick, May 2018). I set out ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Crystal Chan Takes on Complex Issues for Teens in New YA ‘All That I Can Fix’ – Interview by Kate Hannigan
Published: 13/06/2018Chicago author Crystal Chan doesn’t shy away from challenging subjects. With her debut novel, the enchanting Bird (Atheneum, 2014), she explored loss, grief, and the meaning of family through the eyes ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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Kids Need Books Everywhere by Jennifer LaGarde and Donalyn Miller
Published: 10/06/2018Indisputably, children and adolescents benefit when they attend schools with degreed librarians and well-developed library collections (Scholastic, 2018). We also know that providing kids with ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #590: Featuring Calling Caldecott
Published: 10/06/2018I’m taking a Sunday to point 7-Imp readers to the Horn Book’s Calling Caldecott, where since March of this year, we’ve been checking in monthly to talk about some of the outst ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Let’s Start at the Very Beginning… by Mark Overmeyer
Published: 9/06/2018My first year teaching, I was one of the lucky ones. I had come out of a strong student teaching experience, and my new teacher colleagues provided a perfect balance of providing support and le ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week,Featuring Eugene Yelchin and Hyewon Yum
Published: 8/06/2018— From Hyewon Yum’s Saturday Is a Swimming Day — From Eugene Yelchin’s Pip & Pup Over at Kirkus today, I may ramble a bit about reading. That is here. * * * ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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“Is a lion still a lion if … he wears a hat?”
Published: 5/06/2018Here’s a quick post about Polly Dunbar’s latest book, A Lion Is a Lion (Candlewick), released in April. It’s the story of a fierce lion, who makes his way into the home of two ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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On Labels in Lions & Liars by Kate Beasley
Published: 5/06/2018I’m beyond excited about my new book, Lions and Liars. I feel in my bones that this is the story I was supposed to tell next and the way I was supposed to tell it. The novel is about Frederick ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #589:Featuring Up-and-Coming Illustrator, Cat Min
Published: 3/06/2018It’s the first Sunday of the month, which means I’ve got the work of a student or debut illustrator here at 7-Imp. Today, it’s the latter, an illustrator and animator named Cat Min, ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Digital Device + Free Texts = Reading All Summer Long by Tammy Mulligan and Clare Landrigan
Published: 1/06/2018When we read the Pew Research Center’s report about access to digital information, it confirmed the work we are doing with digital reading. Although many students may not have easy access to actual b ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week,Featuring Floyd Cooper and Eliza Wheeler
Published: 1/06/2018“Frances was sent to Cottingley so the girls could go out to the beck to summon …the fairies. But it rained . . . every day. In the two weeks Frances was in Cottingley,the girls got only t ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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Cover Reveal: A Drop of Hope by Keith Calabrese
Published: 30/05/2018My first middle grade novel is about a lot of things. A wishing well. An attic cluttered with mystery. A rare, stolen diamond. Lawn care. The enduring power of friendship. Overcoming our fears, whatev ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Wake Up Little Princess (and Prince) by Liesl Shurtliff
Published: 29/05/2018It’s inevitable. During a Q&A with a group of kids I will always be asked the following: Are you going to write a princess tale? Cinderella? Sleeping Beauty? Snow White? I get a little squeamish a ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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A House That Once Was:A Visit with Julie Fogliano and Lane Smith
Published: 29/05/2018Pictured above is a preliminary image from Julie Fogliano’s A House That Once Was (Roaring Brook, May 2018), illustrated by Lane Smith. This, Lane says, was his attempt to use “very ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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Summer Reading Plans by Katherine Sokolowski
Published: 28/05/2018On the day this post goes live, May 28th, my students and I will have said good-bye. It is, officially, our first day of summer vacation. This is a time for many teachers that is bittersweet. We absol ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #588: Featuring Elly MacKay
Published: 27/05/2018“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.”(Click to enlarge) I’ve a review over at BookPage of Elly MacKay’s Red Sky at Night (Tundra, May 2018). That is here. Today at ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Read, Rise, Resist, Repeat by Kacy Smith
Published: 25/05/2018A few short months ago, my district was in the middle of a comprehensive ELA adoption, which had a focus of providing diverse and engaging classroom libraries. Expected growing pains had arrived and p ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
