Artemis Fowl is something of a classroom classic; unfortunately one I never got into as a youth. It was an interesting tale of a young boy who is incredibly smart, smarter than the adults around him, who devises a way to steal money from supposedly mythical creatures. You follow Artemis as he tries to restore […]
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My first book by Mike Lupica, I had heard good things about his books especially for middle school boys who struggle with finding books interesting. I can definitely see why he’s a popular author among teacher’s libraries! A story centered around basketball, Fast Break has a great way of combining the more detail oriented aspects
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This is such a good book! An old favourite I decided to reread for this blog, Magyk follows the story of the Heap family, specifically the little baby Silas finds in a snowbank. This young child finds out on her tenth birthday she is actually the murdered queens daughter and goes on a frantic
Grandmaster by David Klass overall, is a pretty good book. I think this one would suit the ‘outcast’ in the class, but I can see some students being disenchanted by how overly serious and competitive the characters get throughout the novel. This novel follows the main character Daniel Pratzer over the course of
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The Berlin Boxing club is an amazing book about a young Jewish boy during Hitler’s rise to power. The main character is Jewish, although he admits he doesn’t look Jewish and was raised by parents who don’t follow religion. He has a younger sister who ‘looks’ Jewish and they are very close. His father, a
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Eric Walters is a well known and good author for middle school books, and this book is no different. Bifocal follows two students: one, a white football star; the other a Muslim geek. This book offers a unique dual perspective of the same events. The book begins when a student at the school is arrested
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