Chapter Books:
The Hunger Games
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Love That Dog
The Hinky-Pink
Dying To Meet You
Squirrel's World
Almost Astronauts
It's Perfectly Normal
Scary Stories
My Sister's Keeper
11 Birthdays
Savvy
Rules
Hoot
When You Reach Me
Twilight
Dork Diaries
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
Everything on a Waffle
The Wild Whale Watch
Junie B. First Grader Boss at Lunch
Beezus and Ramona
Sounder
Judy Moody Predicts the Future
Twister on Tuesday
Bridge to Terabithia
Picture Books:
Just a Minute: A Trickster and Counting Book
It's a Book
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Mirrette on a High Wire
One Fine Day
The Lion and the Mouse
Owen
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Lon Po Po
All Stations!
Frogs
That Book Woman
14 Cows for America
And Tango Makes Three
In Our Mother's House
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Papa and Me
My Abuelita
Duck! Rabbit!
Tar Beach
The Uglified Duck
Reading with Meaning
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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Mini and her family are poor and Mini tries her best to change that. Her father tells stories and Mini is fascinated by them. Mini makes a purchase of a goldfish, which her mother feels is stupid and foolish but Mini believes it will change things. She becomes fiend with a dragon can't fly. Together they have adventures. This is a great book for anyone to read. I was fortunate enough to meed the author at ALA this summer, and got an autograph copy of it. I enjoyed reading this fantasy book.
Lin, Grace (2009). Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. New York: Little Brown Books.
The Hunger Games
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Collins, Suzanne (2008). The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press.
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, by Trinka Nobel, is a funny book full of the silly adventures of a class trip and Jimmy's boa. A little girl gives all the funny details to her mother on how a trip to the farm becomes a chaotic day. This is a funny book, and I think all the lower grades should definitely read it. It touched my heart, and funny bone, because my son really loves reptiles and snakes.
Nobel, Trinka Hakes (2005). The Fay Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. New York:Dial Books.
Love That Dog
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Creech, Sharon (2001). Love That Dog. New York: HarperCollins.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Hinky Pink
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The Hinky-Pink is an old tale retold by Megan McDonald. It is a Bluebonnett Nominee book. This was a book that I did enjoy reading. It's about a young seamstress named Anabel who is called to make an important dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola. Anabel is sent to the tower where she has all the beautiful materials to make a beautiful dress. But he nights are restless when a "hinky-pink" won't allow her to get a good nights sleep. All the hinky-pink wants is a bed to sleep in and after many tries Anabel finally satisfies her. Anabel then has one day to create a stunning dress for the princess and that she does. This is a cute book to read to any little girl who loves stories abut princesses.
McDonald, Megan (2008). The Hinky-Pink. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Dying to Meet You
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Klise, Kate (2009). Dying to Meet You. New York: Harcourt.
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