It's Monday! What are You Reading? 7.8.13

Jen at www.teachmentortexts.com and Kellee now over at www.unleashingreaders.com, created this Monday meme following Sheila's, over at www.bookjourney.wordpress.com,  original meme where we recap what we've read over the past week.  Jen and Kellee brought it to the picture books - YA level. 

I am finding that I am really in the mood for some "lighter" reading material.  I tried picking up Ender's Game (for about the third time) but was not into it at all. So instead I picked up a middle-grade novel to start off my week.  I finished two chapter books and two picture books and am about 3/4 finished with an adult novel.

 

 

Madam President is classic Lane Smith humor and puns and I enjoyed it very much.  H.O.R.S.E: A Game of Basketball and Imagination would be a great book for boys and those who enjoy sports. 

 

The chapter books I finished were:

 

 

 

  

I absolutely loved both of these books! The Lions of Little Rock is one I wish I had read sooner, but better to have read now than not at all.  I absolutely loved Marlee as a character. A must have for all school and classroom libraries. 

I read Jessi Kirby's Moonglass a couple of years ago and truly enjoyed it and absolutely loved In Honor as well.  Kirby has a great way of describing setting and she pulls me in immediately.  (I am also a sucker for anything country and beachy and In Honor has both.)  This would be a good one to put into the hands of that really mature 6th grade and up reader who is looking for something beyond what middle grade books have to offer as far as maturity goes.  There is a scene in this book where the main character, Honor, becomes drunk one night but Kirby addresses the circumstance and consequences well. 

So arriving today on my doorstep is:

 

And I am currently reading:

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a fabulous week of summer reading!