Month: March 2009

Specials by Scott Westerfeld- Tally Youngblood has been turned into a Cutter by her best friend Shay. Tally and the Cutter’s use their weapon-grade bodies to tame and shape the world around them. Special Circumstances is unaware that Tally is once again rewiring her brain to think outside the brain lesions, which leads her to a dilemma: does Tally Youngblood love David or Zane?

A book review of a Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Michael Martchenko. Forced to wear a paper bag after a dragon destroys her home and kidnaps her fiance. She goes on rescue mission to save Prince Ronald from the dragon.

I first fell in love with the story of Robert Smalls while watching a PBS documentary called Slavery and the Making of America. I loved his story and was thrilled to learn that Janet Halfmann had turned his story into a picture...

Double Scoop – Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen. We picked this one in honor of Black History Month and we really liked the book, but it is not an easy read as it shows the brutal nature of slavery. We also had a good discussion...

I love ‘I can Read’ books. They are just the right level to really share a reading experience with beginning readers. There are plenty of beginning words like the, this that, him, I, go, they, etc. that boost new...