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
Here are a few posters I made for our Grade 6 social studies classes to read around ancient lives. Our G6 curriculum is pretty heavy on the ancient civilizations - moving from the IB / MYP system it's the first time I've seen the American Curriculum in full force with a text book and doing … Continue reading #DecDisplays – Ancient lives
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
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
November is a special month for some Middle Eastern countries. Please note these are not an exhaustive list of the literature coming out of those countries, or even the literature in translation, merely what I have to offer our students. For further reviews and reading suggestions please take a look at the GLLI blog for … Continue reading #DecDisplays – November celebrations
The next couple of posts are going to be the country celebration posters of the last few months. Please note these are not an exhaustive list of the literature coming out of those countries, or even the literature in translation, merely what I have to offer our students, including stories of Korean diaspora - mainly … Continue reading #DecDisplays – August celebrations
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