It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA!
It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme started by Sheila at Book Journeys and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover the next “must-read” book!
Kellee and Jen, of Teach Mentor Texts, decided to give It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – join us! We love this meme and think you will, too.
We encourage everyone who participates to support the blogging community by visiting at least three of the other book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.
CONGRATULATIONS
Shaye
for winning the Garbage Island giveaway!
Wednesday: Blog Tour with Review, Book Trailer, and Giveaway!: Eduardo Guadardo, Elite Sheep by Anthony Pearson
Giveaway open until Thursday!!!!
Thursday: We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
Friday: Disney Villains: The Evilest of Them All by Rachel Upton
Sunday: Author Guest Post! by Pepper Springfield, Author of the Bobs and Tweets series
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Kellee
- I look forward to sharing Death and Douglas on Friday–make sure to come back and read the review. This is a book that your middle schoolers are looking for!
- We are on a Ryan T. Higgins kick. We read all 4 of the Bruce books, We Don’t Eat our Classmates, and Be Quiet! this week–both at bedtime, if we own the book, or as a read-along ebook through Hoopla from our public library.
- Trent is also is all about Nightmare Before Christmas right now, so because I am who I am, I found a book also.
Ricki
This week, we are talking about mental health and adolescence in my Adolescents’ Literature course. Students are reading Oshiro’s Anger is a Gift, Colbert’s Little & Lion, and Whaley’s Highly Illogical Behavior. Last night, I reread Highly Illogical Behavior to refresh my memory. I am really excited to talk across these three texts!
I read Deborah Freedman’s new book, Carl and the Meaning of Life. It is such a clever book. It perfectly balances traditional picture books with their repetition and innovation in its message.
Kellee
- Still listening to the BRILLIANT Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I highly recommend it to everyone.
- At bedtime we’re at Chapter 8 of Winnie the Pooh. It isn’t an every night read because sometimes Trent asks for other awesome books, but we are chugging through.
- I’m lucky enough to be hosting David Levithan on a roundtable during NCTE, so I am finishing up his A series.
- In a couple of weeks I am reviewing Children of Jubilee, the final book in the series, so I will jump on that next.
- Up Next: Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai or Just Like Jackie by Lindsey Stoddard
Ricki
I’ll be rereading A.S. King’s Me and Marvin Gardens for my class next week. I am also hopeful that I will finish a few other books that I’ve started recently. 🙂
Tuesday: Video about Lexiles with Leigh Hall, Professor at University of Wyoming
Wednesday: Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Photo that Changed the World by James Gladstone
Thursday: Sun! One in a Billion by Stacey McAnulty
Friday: Death and Douglas by J.W. Ockler
Sunday: Author Guest Post by Alane Adams, Author of The Blue Witch
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Ricki, I enjoyed Little & Lion, but I am waiting most impatiently for Anger is a Gift. I’ll be one of the last to read this one and it’s killing me!
Kellee, I’ve heard so many great things about Escape from Aleppo that I keep having to remind myself I haven’t yet read it!
I’m thrilled to win Garbage Island! Thank you for hosting all the wonderful giveaways, Kellee and Ricki!
I cannot wait to read ESCAPE! I plan on it being next 🙂
And enjoy Garbage Island–it is awesome!
Sounds like a fun week, reading all those Ryan Higgins books! Bruce and We Don’t Eat Our Classmates are student favorites. I don’t know Carl and the Meaning of Life so I’ll have to check that one out.
Trent ADORES all of the Higgins books–they are so much fun!
So many books, wishing sometimes I could only read! Thanks for sharing about Carl and The Meaning of Life, Ricki & for the Christmas book, Kellee, will look for them. The girls are already talking about Christmas! Have a wonderful week!
Santa Bruce is so much fun also!
There are some cute covers in this post! The Elite Sheep one made me smile because I am a knitter and beloved wool comes from sheep. We Do Not Eat Our Classmates made me LOL!
And they both are as awesome as their covers seem!
Kellee, I think I will also be reading Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime soon because I’ve been wanting to, and my favorite books podcast is doing a readathon for next month! I’d like to get the audio, too, and hear it read by Noah himself. My son introduced me to his TV show and his comedy.
Ricki, I haven;t read any of the 3 books you are teaching this week, but I want to read them all!
Hope you both enjoy your books this week – thanks for hosting!
Sue
Book By Book
You definitely want to get the audiobook! I think it is an important part of reading the book.
I really need to read the Haddix series. I’ve heard great things. I own the first one. You know… just need to read it!
Looking forward to reading your post about Sun! I loved it – Earth is still my favorite though! They make great read alouds. Did Trent love it?
Ricki, I need to read Anger is a Gift. I heard about it from someone we both know 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yeah. Time. It is so limited!
Trent ADORES Earth and Sun–he cracks me up when it comes to reading space books 🙂
;-D