This story is one of a few i’m going to be reading to educate myself more on black lives, history, and stories. I realize that while i’ve always tried to offer a variance in my classroom library, it can be hard to find good books for tweens by black authors or about black characters; so […]
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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
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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This is an absolutely amazing book! The story is from the main character Bobby’s point of view and it follows his group of four friends as they take on student council elections in seventh grade. Each of these characters seems to represent someone you can easily connect with as the reader. Bobby is an overweight
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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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