With my school’s book of the month program, we’re trying to be more inclusive of our students who would prefer to read in Spanish. Unfortunately, all of the books we selected in English don’t have Spanish translations. We did find The Julian Chapter from R. J. Palacio’s Wonder in Spanish, and are excited to be … More The Julian Chapter | Sticky Note Reviews
Happy Friday, readers! It’s Friday Linkup time, so I’ll start with a #FridayReads – 60 seconds on what I read this week and what I’m reading this weekend, then we’ll hit Book Beginnings (from Rose City Reader) and The Friday 56 (from Freda’s Voice) on said book. (Note: The video time reads 1:30 – the … More The Friday 56: Dreadnought: Nemesis
Backlash by Sarah Darer Littman is another of the books I picked up at the Scholastic Book Fair this year. This is one of those books that I want many of my students to read. I think they don’t understand how much they’re attached to their devices and how much things that happen online really … More Sticky Note Review: Backlash
Watch Read This is Feature Shelf, a series that provides book recommendations based on theme or title suggestions. While I was writing last week’s shelf, I thought about Danny from Mexican Whiteboy and how he’s struggling to figure out who he is and where he fits, and decided that’d make a great topic for a shelf. … More Feature Shelf #40: The Identity Edition
One of my students asked me for this last year when Feature Shelf was (mostly) on hiatus. Finally, here it is. Archives | Podcast RSS | Podcast iTunes Evernote files for books mentioned Bystander Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass http://bit.ly/mm-yaqui Scrawl http://bit.ly/ms-scrawl Loss http://bit.ly/jmk-loss Playground http://bit.ly/50cent-playground
Watch Read This is Feature Shelf, a series that provides book recommendations based on theme or title suggestions. This week’s shelf was requested by Paul. This is Feature Shelf #35, the Bystander edition. My name is eli. I’m also called the book supplier. Thanks for listening. When I talked to Paul about what he liked … More Feature Shelf #35: The Bystander Edition
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina Hardcover, 260 pages Piddy Sanchez doesn’t want to move to a new apartment and a new school. She wants everything to stay the way it was, even though her best friend moved to New Jersey and left her behind. But her mother is insistent that they … More Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
This is Feature Shelf, a series that provides book recommendations based on theme or title suggestions. This is the podcast for episode 31: the sport and issues edition, requested by Carlos after having read Crackback and Tears of a Tiger. My name is eli. I’m also called the book supplier. Thanks for listening. So when … More Feature Shelf #31: The Sports Issues Edition
Send by Patty Blount Paperback, 287 pages HL550L Like Scrawl, Send is told from the point of view of a bully, this time a cyber bully. Dan’s trying to find redemption by helping a bullied kid in his new school, while continuing to struggle with and blame himself for what happened five years before the story starts. Dan … More Send by Patty Blount
Scrawl by Mark Shulman Hardcover, 240 pages; audiobook 650L “I know what you think. You think I’m fixable, don’t you? You want to fix the bad guy. You don’t know the half of it.” Today’s Book Talk Tuesday is Scrawl by Mark Shulman. I am the Supplier. Tod Munn is a bully. And this bully … More Scrawl by Mark Shulman
