#7The Unlikely Hero of Room 13BbyTeresa Toten(YA) Date Read: February 20th, 2016Rating :5/5 stars #8The Thing about JellyfishbyAli Benjamin (MG) Date Read: March 13th, 2016Rating :5/5 stars #9Some Kind of CouragebyDan Gemeinhart (MG) Date Read: March 15th, 2016Rating :5/5...
As part of ourocean animals unit study, we are reading. Reading lots and LOTS of books. Learning all about jellyfish is not only educational, but it’s also quite fun as well. The kids love reading all about what they eat, how they live, and how they’re able to be underwater for...
Ali Benjamin is the author of two middle-grade books, the newly releasedThe Next Great Paulie Finkand 2015’sThe Thing About Jellyfish, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Benjamin will be at Lemuria on Thursday, April 25, at 5:00 to sign an...
■ The Thing about Jellyfish (Ali Benjamin; 2015. 352 pages. Fiction.)■ Lost Weddings (Maria Beig; 1983 (1990 translation). 143 pages. Fiction.)■ The Gap of Time (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Jeanette Winterson; 2015. 288 pages. Fiction.)■ A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness; 2013. 224 pages....
Other grief related teen fiction….The Thing About Jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin and Goodbye Days, by Jeff Zentner. Heather December 19, 2013 at 10:10 am Reply Thanks for these great suggestions! When my husband died over 9 years ago and my son was 12, I had a very difficult time findi...
and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age(Matt Richtel) –a book that I think everyone should read, along withBeing Mortal(Atul Gawande). (For my review ofA DeadlyWandering, clickhere.) For younger readers, Di’s favorite isThe Thing About Jellyfish(Ali Benjamin), a Nati...
• The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren (One of my all-time favorites—I read it for my children when they were about 6 years old and again a while ago, now as teenagers) • The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (A story of death for young adults) ...
*Signed Bookplates* Wolf Hollow meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Danielle Binks’s debut middle grade novel set in 1999, where a twelve-year-old girl grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town. If yo
“A lovely book about the moon by science writer Rebecca Boyle:Our Moon: A Human History. She looks at the moon from all sorts of interesting angles: how it affected the outcome of battles, what it was like for the Apollo astronauts, etc.”Read more... ...
The Thing About Jellyfish,£48.77,0,One The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,£10.02,0,Two The Stand,£57.86,0,Two The Undomestic Goddess,£45.75,0,Four The Travelers,£15.77,0,One "The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide (The Wick...