Why I Picked It Up: In searching for strong social studies text for our Beyond the Textbook Session, I found this advanced reader’s copy in Sherry’s personal collection. It was definitely a “Jessica book,” so she happily gave me her copy. Why I Finished It: Curiosity! From the beginning I was intrigued by the stories the […]
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Book Review: Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff, by Robert Paul Weston
Why I Picked It Up: This was a classic case of “Sherry” and “Jessica” books. In preparation for our Head to Head session, we each needed a novel-in-verse to read and review. Jessica had already fallen in love with The Crossover, so I had to find my own novel-in-verse that was different enough to be competitive in our […]
Poetry All Around Us
How I found this poem: I am not a great television “watcher”. To me, it is generally noise in the background while I cook, read, work on puzzles, etc. It’s not that I multitask, usually I am hardly paying attention to the television. However, when the iPad Air commercial came on, I gravitated towards the […]