Mika is back! She stars in the award-laden Moonwind Mysteries, a gripping upper MG/YA historical series set in 1880s Sweden. The first two books in the series, The Night Raven and The Queen of Thieves, were filled with suspense, gritty details, fast pacing, and vivid characters, including the city of Stockholm, which becomes a tangible … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Lost Ones
In 1934 the American occupiers have left Haiti, but things are no better for the people ruled by corrupt and brutal section chiefs. When one of them kidnaps 16-year-old Lucille’s best friend and cuts down their favorite mapou tree, Lucille goes down to the police station to inquire. That puts her own family in danger, … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: When the Mapou Sings
I hope you've enjoyed my advent calendar type selection of "displays" for the month of December with a variety of ways to slice and dice collections and perhaps you've even found a few new or different books to add to your collections. A couple of people have asked me about the how and why and … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Wrap up
In anticipation of the country celebrations in January - here is my Australian poster - being an American school with relatively few Australian students, we don't have a very robust collection of books from Australia. There are all sorts of complications in procuring books from Australia - and as my fellow-librarians who I asked from … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Australian books
Making posters becomes a bit of a chicken and egg proposition after a while. Our economics teacher saw some of my "read around" science posters and wondered if it was possible that a set could be made for her economics students - both to engage them currently, and also as preparation for those who would … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Reading as preparation
Kind of following on the post about teens yesterday, here is a poster of nonfiction and fiction books around social media, one of the obsessions of most (young) people today. Our G8 social studies class looked into social media as part of their identity unit, and one of my displays this year was fiction and … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Social Media
Most educators, parents, adults would agree that this is a really hard time to be a teenager. When my own children were teens I kept reminding myself that they were at the chrysalis stage, in process of becoming beautiful butterflies and that everything, particularly in their brains was in the mush of reconstituting itself. Today's … Continue reading #DecDisplays – the chrysalis years
After the debut of my "read around" posters for sciences, our Drama teacher request to have some for music and drama. She's one of my "best" middle grade / YA readers and has read so many of the books on our core lists, including many of the sequels to the books. It's truly a fantastic … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Music and Drama
One of the fun things about chatting to students about what they want to read when a book is out and they "need it" is what aspect of the book appeals to them. Towards the end of the last school term I had a bunch of historical fiction books out on display following our G8 … Continue reading #DecDisplays – The spies we love
How lucky young people are today in their choices of memoirs. Today I'm celebrating that many of our students are able to see themselves, not just in fiction but in the stories that people are willing to share of their lives, their struggles, their memories and their triumphs. Originally I had a place-holder poster up … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Recent Memoirs
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