This meme was started by Sheila at Book Journey. The kid's version was started by Jen at Teach Mentor Text and Kellee at Unleashing Readers. I have not been able to do a lot of reading this week. I am participating in a pilot program for the new management system of the iPads that we have in my county. So I have been working late at school doing activities related to that. Friday was the only night late school week that I got home before 9:00pm!
I did manage to read one book yesterday. I read Finding Someplace by Denise Lewis Patrick. Click here for a summary on Goodreads. This book was another book about Hurricane Katrina. It was an easy read that kept my interest. i could see how the book was going to end before it got there, but that didn't detract from the overall story. The book gave some details of the aftermath, but not too many to make it not appropriate for an elementary school setting. As terrified as I am about hurricanes, I'm always drawn to those books.Hopefully I will be able to read more and post more this week. I'm going to try and write some reviews of the books that I read from my last post. What have you been reading?
Happy Reading!!
Stacey (@libraryjo92)
I have Drowned City borrowed from the library waiting for me to read it. Have you read Ninth Ward - I believe it also has to do with hurricane Katrina which i feel would be a good pair with this book you just shared.
ReplyDeleteI did read Ninth Ward and I really liked it. I read Drowned City during my snow days and will be posting about it soon.
DeleteDo you have an iPad lending program at your library? We've got iPads at our main branch, they stay in the branch but we've got them loaded with all sorts of kids apps and ebooks so families can play with them in the branch and try out different apps before buying or downloading them. The biggest challenge? Keeping tabs on the volume buttons, so we don't have "Head and Shoulders" ringing out through all the levels of the branch, ha!
ReplyDeleteI'm at a public school, so have a lending program. We have them in carts that the teachers can check out. The volume button is a problem for us too!
DeleteSwitching to digital devices is so time consuming for media specialists! We are in our 4th (3rd?) year of iPads at my school, and it is just finally getting evened out.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about Finding Someplace--thank you for sharing! :) Happy reading this week!
I really thought iPads were great, until I had 152 of them! I think with this management program will solve a lot of the problems that we have been having. It just will be a lot of work to get through to the other side.
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