Why I Picked It Up: My niece is the author!!! I knew she was drawing pictures featuring my grandniece, Georgia, who is a young and talented ballerina. There was one particular image of Georgia in a stunning red ballet skirt beside her pony, and Lucy started drawing her in that very outfit, dancing gracefully. What […]
Figurative Language
Book Review: American Desi, by Jyoti Rajan Gopal
As a “third culture kid,” this story hits close to home, and will for many students as well as they explore the theme of identity and belonging through amazing sensory description and incredible word choice!
Book Review: Lemons, by Melissa Savage
Why I Picked It Up: This summer, we went through a LOT of audio books. I have my go-to authors, but we’d pretty much exhausted those, so I was browsing some middle-grade novel blogs and Lemons jumped out, probably because of the upside-down Bigfoot on the front. My son likes mythical creatures, and I was […]
Book Review: Fergal and the Bad Temper by Robert Starling
Why I Picked It Up: This adorable picture book is on the Texas Library Association’s 2X2 Book List for 2019. I have to tell you, the TLA usually gets it right, and I always enjoy books about characters with bad tempers (we can analyze that later…) Why I Finished It: Fergal really is a sweet […]
Book Review: The Whole Hole Story, by Vivian McInerny and Ken Lamug
Why I Picked it Up: This book came in the mail! I love it when great books are brought to my attention and then show up in my mailbox! We were contacted by the illustrator, Ken Lamug, and asked if we would consider featuring The Whole Hole Story. To be honest, I probably would have […]
Book Review: The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, by Laura Shovan
Why I Picked It Up: This novel-in-verse was part of our Newer Choices in Young Adult Lit session and I think I can blame it on Jessica! Why I Finished It: Poetry is definitely not one of my favorite things to read, but I do love novels-in-verse for a few reasons: 1) they’re a quick read. […]
