tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71771311901102957932024-03-13T14:49:35.475-04:00Reading and BreathingUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing.
~ Harper Lee ~Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-13776004127339999662019-04-01T06:44:00.000-04:002019-04-01T06:44:23.007-04:00A Wreath for Emmett Till<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Wreath for Emmett Till</h2>
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Marilyn Nelson</h3>
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Last summer a teacher friend and I went to the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro. We left feeling that we had learned a lot, and that we had a long way to go to achieve the world that the civil rights leaders of the 50’s and 60’s had envisioned. We were warned before going into one of the rooms that there would be brutal images of lynchings. The images were difficult to look at, and perhaps the most heartbreaking was one of Emmett Till, a fourteen year old boy who was accused of whistling at a white woman, was kidnapped out of uncle’s house, beaten, shot, and thrown in the river. After his body was found, his mother insisted that he have an open casket, so that everyone would see what had been done to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marilyn Nelson has used a series of sonnets, called a heroic crown, to mourn Emmet Till. In many ways it is a inspired choice – the strictness of the form allows the reader to at first stand back from the horror it portrays, and then feel a part of it. This is not something that many of my 8<sup>th</sup>grade students could pick up and really understand, but for those who can, they have been given a masterpiece. If I taught high school, this would be required reading in both English and History classes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-9908682354183753222019-03-31T20:42:00.001-04:002019-04-01T06:42:13.241-04:00Tight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tight</h2>
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Bryan loves superhero comics and he loves to play arcade games – every time he plays Ms. Pac Man he gets the high score. He also lives with his family in a housing project in Brooklyn, and life isn’t always easy. His dad is in and out of jail – he just can’t seem to control his temper enough to keep out of trouble. When he’s home, he spends much of his time hanging out at the bodega and telling Bryan he can’t be soft. But Bryan has never been one to get into trouble, even though he sometimes feel his temper rising, the same way it does for his dad. He spends his time in his mother’s office at the community center, drawing and reading his comics. Until one day when Mike comes by and both of Bryan’s parents encourage them to be friends. Mike seems cool at first – he too loves comics and drawing – but he also runs hot and cold. And he starts encouraging Bryan to do increasingly dangerous things – skip school, run through the turnstiles at the subway without paying, and subway surfing. Bryan hates doing these things, but he’s in over his head and he doesn’t know how he’s going to get out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the most part, I enjoyed <i>Tight</i>. Bryan is Puerto Rican, but that doesn’t play heavily into the story. I think the dilemmas Bryan faces are realistic for a kid his age (he’s in the sixth grade), as well are the emotions he deals with when his father goes back to jail. My main issue with the book was the abrupt ending – I think that adding a few more pages would have left me feeling much more satisfied.<o:p></o:p></div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-77764569251201170762019-03-26T20:01:00.002-04:002019-03-26T20:01:59.833-04:00Spooked!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and <i>The War of the Worlds</i> Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America</h2>
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Fake news. We’ve all heard the term. “News” that has been made up to deceive or scare the reader or listener. Well on October 30, 1938, people across the nation were fooled into believing that the world was being invaded by Martians. Silly? Maybe, but think about it: if television and the internet didn’t exist and you got most of your entertainment and news by radio, imagine how you’d feel if the program you were listening to was interrupted by breaking news? The broadcaster says strange cylinder have landed near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Suddenly these beings appear and start to kill everything in their path. Earth is doomed – you can hear masses of people being murdered. Would you panic? Would you flee? And how would you feel once you found out it was just a radio play, based on a book by H.G. Wells? And you’ve been fooled. Badly. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I've known about Orson Welles' radio broadcast, but I confess that I had some misconceptions about it. I had always been told that masses of people panicked and fed the area around Grovers Mills, but Jarrow argues that while many people may have been fooled and scared by the broadcast, there wasn't a mass panic and traffic jams all over the place. I thought Jarrow did a great job of laying the background for the broadcast and talking about the repercussions. This was a fun piece of nonfiction, and I look forward to recommending it to my students.</div>
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Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-88569467983498568282019-03-24T14:07:00.002-04:002019-03-24T14:07:35.396-04:00Escape from Syra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><i>Escape from Syria</i></span></h2>
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Amina is your normal young girl, about 10 years old when this book begins. She lives in Aleppo, Syria with her mom, her dad and her brother. She works hard in school and does well. Everything is good until one day a bomb goes off. Everything she knows changes immediately. Although her family is fine, they are forced to flee the increased fighting in Syria as rebel soldiers fight the Assad Regime, and then ISIS joins in. Amina and her family end up in Lebanon but life isn’t good there either. There is very little money, and when her little brother gets sick, the family has to go into debt to pay for his medicine. Perhaps the only way out is to leave the Middle East altogether and go to Europe, or North America. But being a refugee has its own dangers and Amina and her family are caught in the middle.</div>
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<i>Escape from Syria</i> is a great introduction to the tragedy of the Syrian civil war. While Aminia is a fictionalized character, her story has happened to millions of people who have fled the war. I thoroughly enjoyed this graphic novel.</div>
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Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-7342104948882343132014-08-04T09:57:00.000-04:002014-08-04T09:57:00.332-04:00Nonfiction Monday: Eruption!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives</span></i><br />
Scientists in the Field series<br />
Elizabeth Rusch<br />
2013<br />
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insane to live in the shadow of a volcano?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More than a billion people live within the reach of a volcanic
eruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the time the people are
safe and volcanic ash from previous eruptions make the land perfect for
farming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then there are times when
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It is 1985.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The city of Amero, Columbia has more than
30,000 inhabitants, even though it sits in the valley beneath the volcano
Nevado del Ruiz.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Then, on November 13,
the volcano erupts.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Instantly tons of
snow is melted, starting a mudslide that will envelop the city.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">More than 23,000 people are killed.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Why, with all of the sophisticated equipment
of the late 20</span><sup style="text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> century was this allowed to happen?</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Some scientists vow, “Never Again,” and the
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eruption</i> tells the story of two
subsequent volcanic eruptions – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Mount
Merapi in Indonesia – and how scientists are now able to predict when a volcano
is about to erupt and then order evacuations that are both timely and
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I’ve only
read a couple of books in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scientist
in the Field </i>series but the ones I have read have been stellar examples of
nonfiction writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eruption </i>was no exception – it was suspenseful and well-written and
I learned much about volcanoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I highly
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Review copy came from my school library.<o:p></o:p></div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-7093961152801240962014-08-01T13:10:00.000-04:002014-08-01T13:10:23.234-04:00Caminar <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Caminar</span></i></div>
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Skila Brown</div>
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2014</div>
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Carlos lives in a peaceful little village with Mama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cannot wait to be grown so that he can
work and help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But while his village
might be peaceful, the country isn’t and eventually soldiers come looking for
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One day
when Carlos’ mama has seen him into the forest to gather mushrooms, he hears
gunshot and he realizes that the soldiers have come back everyone in the
village is being massacred. Knowing he
cannot go back to the village without being killed, Carlos decides to try and
reach his grandmother’s village high up on the mountain so that he can warn the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Since You've Been Gone</span><br />
Morgan Marson<br />
2014<br />
<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Emily has
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you see one girl, you’ll find the other one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Emily is looking forward to another fun summer with Sloane when one day Sloane
and her family disappear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody is at
the house, and Sloane doesn’t answer her phone or any of the texts Emily sends
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s not really anyone who can
help Emily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her parents are generally
wonderful but they’re spending the summer writing a play and they are so
engrossed in their work that they are oblivious to life around them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When Emily
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explanation for her disappearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, it has a list:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Morgan
Matson has written 3 books and I’ve read and loved them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in all of her books, there is a romantic
element and even though it was obvious whom Emily was going to end up with, it
didn’t matter and it wasn’t really the point of the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a book about stepping outside your
comfort level and doing it without the most important person in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it will resonate with many teenagers
who will be clamoring to read it.<o:p></o:p></div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-9538389191683308032014-07-22T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-22T09:00:04.274-04:00Absolutely Almost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Absolutely Almost</span></i></div>
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Lisa Graff</div>
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2014</div>
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Albie has always been an almost child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He often doesn’t get things correct (like
math or spelling) but he can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almost</i>
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starting a new school and he’ll have a new nanny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d not very excited about the new nanny
part – he thinks he’s too old for one – but he hopes his new school will be
better than his last one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t
take long, however, for the class bully to target Albie and another student in
the class, Betsy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together at the bottom
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Things aren’t always great at home, either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Albie comes to love Calista, his new
nanny, his parents aren’t always easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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expect in school, and their expectations are sometimes unreasonable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But then the bully finds out that Albie’s best friend is a
reality tv star, and suddenly Albie is “cool.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Albie’s position in the class has sky-rocketed, Betsy’s is still
at the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albie does what he can to
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life isn’t going to be absolutely perfect for him, it might can be absolutely
almost – and that’s good enough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While I was at Nerdcamp Michigan early this month, I
listened to people rave about this book, so as soon as I got home I requested
it from my public library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really
enjoyed it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot think of many books
about children who struggle like Albie, but they are much needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albie is like so many children that I teach –
he does his best but somehow that is never good enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became really frustrated with his parents
during the book – high expectations are fine but their expectations were
unreasonable for Albie’s abilities and I really wished they would put forth the
effort to work with him one-on-one so that they could see that he was really
trying to do well. I think at the end they got it, and that they loved Albie
for who he was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite quote in the
book was one of his dad’s, “I think the hard thing for you, Albie, is not going
to be getting what you want in life, but figuring out what that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you know what you want – really, truly –
I know<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you’ll get it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-8192919698902604582014-07-21T16:16:00.000-04:002014-07-21T16:16:00.480-04:00Nonfiction Monday: "The President Has Been Shot!"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The President Has Been Shot!" </i>: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy</span><br />
James L. Swanson<br />
2013<br />
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One sunny November afternoon the President of the United
States was traveling on a campaign visit to Dallas, Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Kennedy, his wife Jackie, and
the governor of Texas and his wife were traveling in a convertible limousine
when three shots rang out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Governor Connnally was seriously injured; President Kennedy was dead, parts
of his brain splattered across the limousine and on his wife.</div>
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Who would do such a thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lee Harvey Oswald was a pretty much a loser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had failed at everything he’d ever
tried to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no evidence
that he spent a long time planning the assassination; instead, it was pretty
much a crime of opportunity. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
President Has Been Shot!”</i> reviews the entire, terrible weekend – a weekend
that changed the country.</div>
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A finalist for the YALSA nonfiction award this past year, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The President Has Been Shot!”</i> is a
thorough account of the assassination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The book was divided into two parts – part one was an introduction to
Kennedy and part two was the assassination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I understand Swanson’s need to inform young adults
about Kennedy’s life and the early years of his presidency, I found this
section to be a bit choppy and I’m afraid it might turn off some readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once part two began, I was riveted to
the story and I think most of my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>students will be too.</div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-75235287051846270892014-07-13T13:46:00.001-04:002014-07-13T13:46:54.845-04:00The Great Green Heist by Varian Johnson
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Great Greene Heist</span></div>
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Varian Johnson</div>
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<b>Quick Summary: </b>Jackson
Greene has said he was finished with schemes and capers. After all, his last one cost him the
girl he cares about plus he now has to have weekly meetings with the principal
to make sure he’s staying out of trouble.
But now that very girl needs him.
Gaby is running for Student Council president and Jackson realizes that
the boy running against her will stoop to anything in order to win, even
getting his father to bribe the principal, Dr. Kelsey. In order to ensure that Gaby wins,
Jackson has to run the biggest caper of his life, and he has to do it without
letting Gaby know what’s going on.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>My Thoughts:</b> This is the first book I've read by Varian Johnson and I really liked it. The author's notes states <i>The Westing Game</i> was one of Mr. Johnson's inspirations and that was one of the reasons I wanted to read it. It is a book that will be perfect for my more sophisticated readers. Much has been written about its diversity, and I was thrilled with both the diverse cast and that no big deal was made of it. This is definitely one I'll be adding to my school collection.</div>
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Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-44536427393725462242014-06-08T19:07:00.001-04:002014-06-08T19:07:40.536-04:00Sunday Evening Finish Post -- 45 Hour Book Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I'm declaring an end to my challenge. Even though I didn't read as much as I did the two other years I've participated, I'm pretty pleased with what I've done, especially since I didn't think I'd be able to participate at all this year.<br />
In all I read 2 books, finished another book that I'd already started, and am more than half-way through <i>The Savage Fortress</i>. I read for 12 hours and 31 minutes and I blogged and visited other sites for 3 hours and 35 minutes. I spent more time visiting and commenting other sites this year than I have in the past and I really enjoyed that aspect of the challenge. I did notice that I'm reading more slowly than I did in the past -- I'm not sure if that's due to age or just general tiredness.<br />
I look forward to next year's challenge -- it's a great way to start a summer.Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-42431412779075580692014-06-08T13:22:00.000-04:002014-06-08T13:22:04.819-04:00Sunday Afternoon Update and Review for Lovetorn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I squeezed in one more hour of reading last night and then another 1 1/2 hours this morning before church. I finished Lovetorn (review below). I have to go to a funeral this afternoon but I have to get in 1 1/2 more hours to have 12 hours of reading.<br />
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<h2>
<i>Lovetorn</i></h2>
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Kavita Daswani</div>
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2012</div>
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Shalini has been raised in India with her entire extended
family – thirty-seven family members living in the house and she is not the
least bit excited when her father announces that he has taken a job in the
United States and their family of four will be moving there for two years. Not only will she have to leave her extended
family, she’ll also have to leave her fiancé, a boy she has been engaged to
since she was three. Going from
her small private school to being a junior at a large public school is also a
challenge. Some people make fun of
her and she doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. To make matters worse, her mother falls into a deep
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then Shalini joins a group called Food4Life and she becomes involved in raising
money for the charity. She meets a
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I liked Lovetorn but I felt it was a mess in places. I grant you that I am a middle school librarian and have never been in a high school, but I thought the girls who were mean to Shalini acted more like middle school students than high school students. I also had a hard time believing that a girl who has been engaged and devoted to a boy since she was little would so quickly fall for someone else. </div>
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Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-70587476682466646762014-06-07T20:42:00.000-04:002014-06-07T20:42:08.172-04:00Saturday Evening Update and Review for 90 Miles to Havana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I read for about 8 hours and I've spent 2 hours with blogging and social media. I've only completed 2 books so this isn't my fastest work but I'm just glad to be able to spend some time reading this weekend. Here's my review for the book I finished this afternoon:<br />
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<i>90 Miles to Havana</i></h2>
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<i>Enrique Flores-Gallis</i></h3>
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<i>2010</i></h4>
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<i>Pura Belpre Honor Book</i></div>
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Julian is the youngest of three brothers in Cuba in 1961. His biggest problem seems to be learning to stand up for himself until the Revolution happens and life is turned upside down. Julian comes from a fairly well-to-do family (his father builds buildings) and things become difficult for them. Afraid that her children will be taken away from her, Julian's mother decides to send her boys to America where she promises that they will go to a lovely camp until their parents can join them. The camp, however, is not lovely -- and the boys are in danger of being separated and sent to different orphanages across the country. Julian has a lot of growing up to do and in a world that is very foreign to him.</div>
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I liked this book fairly well. I really felt for Julian and his family. I did feel that several events were implausible, but this didn't destroy to story for me. I must admit to knowing very little about the Cuban Revolution, so it was nice to read a book set during this time period.</div>
Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-65297547686750366532014-06-07T13:43:00.000-04:002014-06-07T13:43:06.628-04:0048 Hour Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I finally finished <i>Command Authority </i> by Tom Clancy. Not his worst book, but certainly not his best. I'm now going to start <i>90 Miles to Havana, </i>which is on our state's Battle of the Books list for next year.<br />
Here's my breakdown so far. I'm really trying to spend time on the social media portion of the challenge, something I've not done before:<br />
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Friday, June 6<br />
7:30 - 9:30 Read <i>Command Authority.</i><br />
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Saturday, June 7<br />
9:08 - 9:19 Blogging/ Social Media<br />
9:19 - 12:39 Finished <i>Command Authority</i><br />
<i> </i>1:03 - 1:42 <i> </i>Blogging/Social MediaPaige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-57145548747707318832014-06-07T12:47:00.000-04:002014-06-07T12:47:11.898-04:00Saturday Morning UpdateI read for a couple of hours last night before I collapsed in the bed. I'm going to keep on reading <i>Command Authority</i> and as soon as I finish it I'm going to start <i>90 Miles to Havana</i> by Enrique Folores-Galbis. Since this is a children's/young adult book blog, I won't be posting a review of the Clancy book.Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-13862193203218298842014-06-06T19:27:00.002-04:002014-06-06T19:27:29.669-04:00MotherReader's 48 Hour Book Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I heard the weekend for this year's Challenge, I didn't think I'd be able to do it. I've had a big event cancelled so even though it's a still crazy weekend, but I think I can carve out at least twelve hours to read during it.<br />
Because I hadn't planned to do the challenge, I am in the middle of Tom Clancy's book, <i>Command Authority</i>. It certainly wouldn't be my first choice to read this weekend, but I stink at reading more than one book at a time so I'll finish it before I start on the diverse titles I have on my to-read stack (reading diverse books for children and young adults is this year's theme).<br />
It's been a rotten week, so I'm looking forward to a weekend of reading and relaxing!Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-47563436453297787722013-10-08T05:00:00.000-04:002013-10-08T05:00:11.658-04:00Rotten by Michael Northrop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I'm not fond of animal books, but I really enjoyed this one. JD has just come home from a stint "upstate" to find that his mom has adopted a rescue dog, a Rottweiler he names Johnny Rotten, or JR for short. When JR bites one of JD's friends, the boy's family sees dollar signs and sues JD's mom. It's up to JD to save his dog from being put down and his mom from losing the house. It's impossible not to cheer for JD and JR in this book boys (and girls) are sure to love. Recommended for grades 7 - up.Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-77911345221407906552013-10-05T19:26:00.000-04:002013-10-05T19:26:18.815-04:00The Wig in the Window by Kristen Kittscher
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It
all started because Sophie and Grace were nosey. One of their favorite things to do is to spy on people. Especially at night. With binoculars and walkie
talkies. They love to spy at night
and even though most of their trips end up being boring, it’s the thrill of
sneaking out of their houses and creeping through the neighborhood that really
appeals to them. But then one
night they find out much more than they ever expected. While spying on Sophie’s weird guidance
counselor (Grace is homeschooled), they see a figure through the window holding
a meat cleaver in the air. They
are convinced that Ms. Agford has just chopped up a body and so they
anonymously call the police using Sophie’s phone. It turns out that Sophie is in a world of trouble because
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It
looks like an innocent mistake, but Sophie and Grace soon realize that although
Ms. Agford wasn’t a murderer that night, something is just not right with
her. They have no idea how to
convince their parents of this, so they set out to prove it on their own. Little do they understand just how much
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This
is a great mystery for kids who are ready to have a little more danger, a
little more violence, but who aren’t ready for a full-fledged murder
mystery. I would say it’s about
perfect for 5<sup>th</sup> or 6<sup>th</sup> grade. It’s not any more scary or violent that a typical Trixie
Beldon mystery (yes, I know that reference really dates me!). I highly recommend the trailer – it will sell the book for
you.</div>
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Dwight has finally come back to
McQuarrie Middle School. Things should be wonderful, but they aren’t. No sooner does the spring semester
start does everyone learn that all of the “fun” teachers (art, band, drama,
etc) have been fired so that a new program can be started. “Fun Time” is designed to help improve
test scores, and because the school did poorly last year, the principal will do
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friends think of is to ask Origami Yoda what to do. Origami Yoda says its time to start a rebellion. But Principal Rabbski is not going to
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Let me just say I love Tom
Angleberer for creating this series.
The books are really funny, yet they manage to perfectly capture middle
school issues. <i>Jabba the Puppett</i> exposes the evilness
of testing and the pressure it creates for both students and staff. For years I served as on of the testing
coordinators at my school (as well as being the librarian). Each year I found
myself comforting sobbing children who had honestly done their best on our
End-of-Grade tests and yet not passed.
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be released until spring – I can’t wait to get my hands on it!</div>
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Donavan Curtis is a screw-up. Instead of thinking about his actions, he just acts, and the
result is often chaos. He’s been
voted Most Likely to Wind Up in Jail at his middle school for the past two
years. But now he’s accidently destroyed a good portion of the school gym and
he’s been caught red-handed.
Fortunately for Donovan, Dr. Schultz, the school system superintendent, accidently
placed his name on a list of transfer to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction
– the school for geniuses. Donovan
is no genius – he is quite average – but he figures the Academy is the best
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doesn’t understand much of what’s going on. Among these geniuses, he sticks out like a sore thumb. Even so, he finds his niche and is able
to contribute. When his class is
threatened with having to go to summer school to take Human Growth and
Development, Donovan arranges for his very pregnant sister to save the day by
acting as a real-life experience.
Donovan’s video games skills are extremely helpful with running the
Robotics Club robot – this year they might even win the competition! But even with Donovan trying to do the
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and I loved all his geeky classmates at the Academy. It’s a funny book, but with a deeper message. It’s also a perfect book for students
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First of all (and I wish I'd taken pictures of the piles) our school librarian SWAT team came in and helped me weed 2,177 books. What is SWAT? Each summer we have the option of having a team of librarians come to our schools for a couple of days to do whatever work has piled up over the school year. Sometimes that involves rearranging the library, other times processing books. I had never taken advantage of our SWAT team, but my library desperately needed weeding so I asked for a team this year. Four of us worked for two days and the shelves look so much better!<br />
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Last week I started setting up displays and bulletin boards for the new year. I am very grateful to Pinterest -- I used many ideas I found there. Here's what will greet the students today:<br />
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The Theme for the month is Dystopian Fiction. <i>The Hunger Games</i> is still extremely popular at our school, so I thought I'd take advantage of it.<br />
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I also have processed a number of new books and <br />
I have them out for students. Some of these books are replacements for ones that were damaged or disappeared from the library. I have some more to set out when these are taken. My guess is that the <i>Ripley's Believe it Or Not</i> will last about 10 seconds before it's checked out.<br />
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This is the display of books nominated for the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Ten books are nominated each year and I buy at least two copies of each book. Students will get to vote in March. I'm going to have to move this display because I'm having bookshelves built into all of my windows. My fiction collection is way too crowded (even after weeding more than 900 books), so the bookshelves will wonderful to have.<br />
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I got this from Pinterest. I'm really proud of the way it turned out and its message is particularly important for middle school students.</div>
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I haven't done a top 10 (in this case a top 15) bulletin board in a while. These were the most checked out books last year (excluding books on the Battle of the Books list)<br />
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Another idea from Pinterest. My daughter hand-made the bubble letters. This board has already gotten a lot of positive comments from the staff.<br />
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This year I decided to do a drawing to be first to check out books from popular series. It will be interesting to see how that goes.Paige Y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09823929357425078374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177131190110295793.post-76020539834798813702013-08-25T09:42:00.000-04:002013-08-25T09:42:04.467-04:00Friends with Boys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Friends with Boys</i></h2>
Faith Erin Hicks<br />
First Second, 2012<br />
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Maggie is dealing with a lot in her life right now. She has three older brothers, a police
chief father, and her mother has suddenly abandoned them. Maggie feels like it’s all her
fault. After all, she’d rather
hang out with her brothers than do girly stuff with her mother. Now her mom is gone and Maggie blames
herself. Maggie has also been
homeschooled all her life but she’ll be starting public school at the local
high school and she’s scared. She
has no friends except her brothers and they’ll be so busy at school that they
won’t have any time for her.
Maggie has one other problem too – she’s haunted.</div>
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For
the most part, I really enjoyed <i>Friends
with Boys</i>. I found Maggie to
be an interesting character and I liked both her new friends, Lucy and Alistar,
and her brothers. I think the
portrayal of high school life was spot-on. The only part I wasn’t in love with was the ghost story. I get how it advanced the plot, but I
guess I just wanted a school story.
I hope there will be a sequel to the book – I would like to see what
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<b><i>Prisoner B-3087</i></b></div>
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Alan Gratz</div>
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<i>“If I had known what the next six years of
my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> I
wouldn’t have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to
bed at eight o’clock every night.
I would have played more.
Laughed more. I would have
hugged my parents and told them I loved them.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> But
I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come.”</i>
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Yanek
Gruener is a Jewish boy living in Poland in 1939, and his world is about to
come crashing down around him.
First the Germans invade, rights and privileges are denied, and then
Yanek watches as a huge wall is built around his neighborhood and all the Jews
are herded into this new ghetto.
Life in the ghetto is hard, but its inhabitants are terrified of
becoming one of those who disappear each day, who are deported to what is
rumored to be their death. Yanek
and his family hide out in an old pigeon coop on the roof of their apartment
building until one day when Yanek comes home and his parents are gone – taken
by the Nazis. Yanek will never see
them again.</div>
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It’s
not long before Yanek will also be taken, but not to die. He is taken to a work camp, a place
with a cruel commandant who loves to pick prisoners out just to kill them. This
is only one of the ten camps that Yanek will eventually be held in. Others include Birkenau, Auschwitz, and
Dachau. To survive one
concentration camp is difficult, but to survive ten? Almost impossible.</div>
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I
started <i>Prisoner B-3087</i> last night,
thinking I would read a few pages before I went to bed. I ended up staying up late to finish
it. It is truly a harrowing
account of life during the Holocaust, and an incredible survival story. The book itself is fiction, but is
based on the true story of Jack Gruener, who survived the Holocaust and
eventually immigrated to the United States. </div>
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I
loved the way Alan Gratz wrote Yanek’s story. It is simple and spare, and because of this, the conditions
in the ghetto and the camps seemed all the more horrifying. If I had a quibble, it would be that I
wanted to know more about Yanek’s assimilation back into a normal life after
the war, more than the nine pages that were given. So many Holocaust books detail what life during the war was
like, but there aren’t many that take their characters through the life after
the war.</div>
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How many of you liked (or perhaps still like) to play with
action figures? What were some of
your favorites? Zach has played
with Poppy and Alice for years.
They have the most fun using action figures and dolls to make up
elaborate stories – stories that last for days. All three love the stories, but now that they are twelve,
Zach’s father feels that Zach needs to give up his toys before other kids find
out and make fun of him. So
without telling Zach, he throws away all of the toys he feels Zach is too old
for. Zach is devastated, and he’s
furious with his dad. But he
cannot bring himself to tell the girls the truth, so he just tells them he just
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Poppy,
in particular, is devastated. But
then a couple of nights later, the girls wake him up in the middle of the
night. Poppy then pulls out the
Queen, the one doll they had never been allowed to play with because it was her
mother’s and was supposedly valuable. Poppy tells Zach that the Queen had
spoken to her in a dream. According the Queen, they need to bury the doll in
the town of East Liverpool, Ohio – a few hours away by bus. As crazy as it seems, the three gather
what money they have and set off for East Liverpool to bury the Queen once and
for all.</div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <i>Doll Bones</i> has been mentioned by
numerous people as a contender for the Newbery, and I certainly understand
why. It is very much an adventure,
but more importantly, it is a story about growing up. Holly Black’s writing is beautiful. For the first time in a while, I found
myself jotting down page numbers of passages that I really liked. It’s also
going to be a kid-friendly book.
Unlike <i>The Center of Everything</i>,
it will be an easy sell to my students.
In the long run, however, I think <i>The
Center of Everything</i> is a stronger contender. The problem I had was in suspending disbelief on the actions
of one of the characters. Without
risking too many spoilers, Black has Alice doing and saying a couple of things
that I just don’t see in her doing.
That doesn’t mean that it’s not a great book, or that I’m not going to
booktalk the heck out of it. It
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">This is a fascinating account of
Leonard Bernstein’s life from his birth until his debut as a conductor of the
New York Philharmonic in 1943 at the age of 25.<span> </span>Bernstein had a lot going against him in his desire to be a
musician and conductor.<span> </span>His father,
a Russian immigrant, was adamantly opposed to the idea.<span> </span>He wanted his son in a stable, reliable
job – working for him selling machines that would give women permanent waves.<span> </span>From the beginnings of his life,
however Lenny just wanted to make music.<span>
</span>Becoming a conductor seemed an almost impossible dream because at the
time all of the important conductors in America were born and trained in
Europe.<span> </span>Lenny, however persevered
and when the guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic became ill, he was
asked to fill in.<span> </span>His performance
was so successful that it was never again in doubt that he would be a famous
conductor.<span> </span>Bernstein went on to
conduct and compose music, both classical and contemporary (including West Side
Story).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>This
is not a book that I would hand to any kid, but it is perfect for the student who
is committed to music. It would also be good for the child who has a lot of
obstacles to face in order to achieve a dream. It’s an excellent read.</span></span></div>
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