Their plan is tricky, but they learn a lot about each other’s pasts, and even though things don’t always go well, Kohei and Isolde benefit from the journey in many ways.” [middle grade, ages 8 and up] Anzu the Great Kaiju by Benson Shum Kaiju is a Japanese genre of films and...
So I asked my son’s 3rd grade teacher how she picked her 3rd read aloud books. She said that the other two third grade teachers team teach with her — our teacher taught 5th grade in years past and only this year made the move to 3rd grade — and tell her what books they are rea...
I’ve been in college continually since 1998 (now in 36th grade) and I think it’s hard for anyone who hasn’t been similarly present to comprehend just how much worse the student experience has gotten since the 90s https://t.co/ZkXX5XXnRf— Gerry Canavan (parody) (@gerrycanavan) Febru...
Seventeen days ago, Dee started sixth grade in a different class than her best friend, Juniper. While Dee is hiding in the bathroom counting ceiling tiles ("It's way better to feel alone with yourself, than alone in a crowd"), Juniper has been making friends with the popular girls. When...
However, if you are roughly Gen X and like books about books, pick this one up. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein I needed to read a Maine student book award winner for last winter’s book bingo so I picked this one. It is a middle-grade book that involves ...
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The author says her memoir-in-verse is “a love story of sisterhood, identity, figuring out who you are when your world has changed.” As is true of most of the best of middle-grade literature, this work is intended not just for young people. It is a book that is meant to be shar...
Clamps wouldn’t pull the plank flush with the deck, and whoever the genius was that smeared Dolfinite around the opening deserved a failing grade, leading my son to dub the brown goo “boat diarrhea.” Just as we were about to give up and head to the lumber yard for a new piece of...
Middle grade Starfish By Lisa Fipps This poignant novel in verse tells the story of Ellie, a 5th grade girl who has learned to live by "Fat Girl Rules" like "no eating in public" to avoid being teased. Readers will root for her as Ellie learns to take up space with support from he...
She started staying after class to help him grade papers and they discussed poetry, evolution, and his dreams of field research. In a matter of weeks, Harrington was speaking “as if it were completely settled that he and I should spend our lives together,” although she was already ...