It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9.9.13

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? from Picture Books to YA is a meme started by Kellee over at www.unleashingreaders.com and Jen over at www.teachmentortexts.com to share and wrap up our reading for the past week.  They expanded the original meme started by Sheila over at www.bookjourney.wordpress.com

Yikes! It has been almost a month since I last blogged - school started three weeks ago and I have been busy.   New grade, new school, new subject matter - it has all caught up to me.  But in the classroom we are now in a groove for the most part, and I have some reading time back! So here is what I read over the past couple of weeks:

Picture Books:

 

 

 

 

Every single one of these is an excellent book and I would highly recommend for all classroom libraries to have.  My personal favorite out of these is Faithful Elephants.  Jillian Heise and I had a quick conversation on Twitter about Faithful Elephants and mentioned a few titles that could be connected with it: The One and Only Ivan, Endangered, and An Elephant in the Garden.

 

Chapter books I finished over the past two weeks:

 

  

 

 

Rules of Summer is a quick read that is told in third person omniscient from the two main characters: Rory and Isabel.  Philbin does not create distinct alternating chapters for the two characters so at times it is not clear (more so at the beginning of the story) which POV is being used as their voice is not differentiated enough.  But, overall it is a good read for 8th and up.  It is one to recommend for readers who enjoy books by Susane Colasanti and the like.

 

Okay.  LOVED Counting by 7s.  This book is getting a lot of Twitter buzz and I think that buzz is well deserved.   Willow Chance is one of those characters you just want to wrap your arms around, sit down and have a conversation with, and want to make the world a better place for.  Go read this now.  :)

 

I am currently reading:

 

 

I am reading this for book club.  You can read the summary here at Goodreads.  The main character, 26-year-old Ginny, is a woman living with Asperger Syndrome and her parents have just died unexpectedly.  The story line is interesting and I am enjoying it so far. 

 

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