I know it’s way early to be telling you about this book, but I just can’t wait to share my feelings because I’m so overwhelmed by them (in a great way) after just finishing GHOST HAWK today. And I want to make sure you don’t miss it’s release in the late summer back-to-school madness. So I’m borrowing (with her permission!)… Read More
Archives for May 2013
Student Recommendation: CRASH by Lisa McMann
Title: CRASH Author: Lisa McMann Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: January 8, 2013 Number of Pages: 233 If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy. Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like… Read More
I’m Kirby Larson’s Teacher Tuesday today!
I am so honored to have been asked by Kirby Larson to be a guest on her Teacher Tuesday feature. I’m so appreciative of Kirby’s support of teachers and spreading the word of some of the things we’re all working so hard to do in our classrooms for our students. When Kirby asked me what I wanted to talk about,… Read More
THE TESTING by Joelle Charbonneau
Title: THE TESTING Author: Joelle Charbonneau Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Release Date: June 4, 2013 Number of Pages: 336 Source of Book: ARC from bookseller in anticipation of author visit Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The… Read More
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Kasie West
Title: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US Author: Kasie West Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: July 2, 2013 Number of Pages: 320 Source of Book: ARC from author (Thanks Kasie!) Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the… Read More
INVISIBILITY by Andrea Cremer & David Levithan
Title: INVISIBILITY Author: Andrea Cremer & David Levithan Publisher: Philomel (a Penguin imprint) Release Date: May 7, 2013 Number of Pages: 358 Source of Book: ARC from publisher NCTE Stephen has been invisible for practically his whole life — because of a curse his grandfather, a powerful cursecaster, bestowed on Stephen’s mother before Stephen was born. So when Elizabeth moves… Read More
