First off: What an amazing book! So many great lessons in here and written for a way that students in grades 3-5 can really understand. While the main character is in 5th grade, I think the lessons in here are better suited to at or slightly under audiences. I did use this with a 5/6 […]
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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
The Ghosts of War (The true story of a 19-year-old GI) by Ryan Smithson This is an AMAZING book. I would highly recommend this to any classroom library, and encourage its use as a class read aloud for grade 5+, or as an independent book study for those in grade 7+. The only reason I
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