When Colby invited me to review Linda Urban’s The Center of Everything for the Nerdy Book Club, I jumped at the opportunity. But then I got thinking…I’m not really going to review this book. I’m simply going to recommend that you read it and share it far and wide because it is that kind of […]
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May
07
EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD, SEEN THROUGH NUMBERS! by Jennifer Berne
posted by CBethM
I have to admit, I’m a bit of a number nerd. Even though I became a writer, and really do love the magic of words, I have a special soft spot in my heart for the wonderful language of numbers. And I know I’m not alone! The language of numbers Without using numbers we can describe things as “big” […]
January
26
Cover Reveal of You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino
posted by CBethM
Twelve-year old Jillian Pirillo, the white, hearing main character of You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the Magical Mysterious Vidalia fantasy book series, and her family, including her Deaf baby sister, Emma. She also thinks Derek, a Deaf Black kid in her Vidalia chatroom, is kind of cute. She […]
March
22
EVERYTHING COUNTS by SHELLEY JOHANNES
posted by CBethM
ABOUT THE BOOK: Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker is the first book in an illustrated chapter book series about a third grader who does her best thinking upside down. It publishes from Disney-Hyperion on Septempter 19th, and is currently available for pre-order. SHELLEY JOHANNES is an author/illustrator who spent ten years in architecture—where […]
June
11
Ten YA Books That Will Make You Laugh, Cry and Everything In Between by Naomi Bates
posted by CBethM
Books can be a powerful emotional vehicle. Anger, passion, joy, deep dislike, humor, pain…those are just some emotions young adult books and authors can pull from you. One minute you’re fine, the next you’re bawling in front of an audience (only if you read in public, that is). As a book lover and reader, I […]
May
23
Top 10 Authors My Students Read Everything By – by Shana Karnes
posted by CBethM
Every year around October, I find a few students in my 11th-grade classroom whose to-read lists are depressingly barren. Despite the fact that by that time I’ve booktalked nearly 100 books, I begin to despair when I can’t help them fill that list and make a reading plan. And then, every year, I find […]
Everything Old Is New Again by Donalyn Miller
posted by donalynm
For the first time since school ended in June, I opened my classroom door today. I admit that I become more lax about getting my classroom ready with each subsequent year. I have put my classroom together for so long, that I no longer panic about whether or not it is perfect. I know we […]
June
06
A Life Story in Books by Kate Messner
posted by CBethM
Readers always tell their life stories in books. When I think back to my childhood, I remember friends and family, splashing in the pool and turning over rocks to look for crayfish in the creek behind our house. But for every year, every age, there’s also a book. I remember meeting Beverly Cleary’s […]
April
28
I Can Do It Myself by Linda Urban
posted by CBethM
Years ago, when my son was a preschooler, I watched one of his classmates struggling to put on the many layers of snow gear that can sometimes be required for a Vermont recess. His mom hurried over to help him remove his leg from the armhole of his parka. “I can do it myself!” said […]
June
18
The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern – Review by Linda Urban
posted by CBethM
beep beep beep My dad won’t stop beeping. If the opening lines of Megan Jean Sovern’s The Meaning of Maggie are just a tiny bit disorienting, then great, because that puts you on equal footing with our narrator, Maggie Mayfield, who will spend the rest of this smart, funny, emotionally honest novel trying to put […]
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