This meme was started by Sheila at Book Journey. The kid's version was started by Jen at Teach Mentor Text and Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers. Once again I had a crazy week! This week has felt like two weeks in one! On Monday we had snow, so we had a two hour late arrival. but I couldn't enjoy it. Over the weekend my parents had trouble with both of their cars. My dad had an MRI scheduled at 7:45am, but I didn't feel comfortable letting them drive in the snow. So I ended up getting up and driving them to the MRI facility. The only good thing about this was I had about a solid hour of reading time!
I finished You Can Fly by Carole Boston Weatherford. Click here for a summary on Goodreads. I just love a book written in verse and this one was great! I learned that there is so much I didn't know about the Tuskeegee Airmen. The verse form allow for a lot of information to be shared without becoming overwhelming. I really appreciated the timeline and all the resources that the author shared at the end of the book. This is one that I can't wait to share with my students. I hope that they will enjoy it as much as I did.
The only other book I read this week was This Book Is Out Of Control! by Richard Byrne. Click here for a summary on Goodreads. In this book we meet up with Bella, her dog, and Ben who has a remote controlled toy. As with the other two books things don't go according to plan. There is a lot of reader participation in this book too. I know that this will become a favorite of my students as the other two books have.
I have started Jasper and The Riddle of Riley's Mine by Caroline Starr Rose. Click here for a summary on Goodreads. This book will be published tomorrow February 7, 2017. I'm only on page 82 and I am LOVING the book already. Can't wait until I have time to read some more of it!
Happy Reading!!
Stacey (@libraryjo92)
I'm just so impressed by the variety that's available in verse novels these days - just about any subject or topic you can imagine can be turned into a moving and insightful verse novel! I'm reluctant to gender books, as I know any reader can relate to any subject, but I do feel like this could be a great title for helping male readers get over any negative associations they might have towards verse novels as being "not for them" - what a gripping and engaging true-life story!
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of books published about the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the only one I've read is Wind Flyers!
ReplyDeleteYou Can Fly sounds very informative. Interesting format for a nonfiction book, too. I'll have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteThis Book Is Out of Control sounds like a lot of fun - must find!
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