Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. One of the biggest book matchmaking challenges I face in my Children’s Literature class is what to give next to the student who loves The One and Only Ivan. For many of the students in this class, The One and Only Ivan…
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s Top Ten list is a freebie, so I checked out the archives of previous topics that I missed. My eye was immediately caught by Top Ten Books I’d Want on a Desert Island, even though it makes me feel rather…
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. For some reason, YA is the genre where I struggle most to connect with the characters. It isn’t a matter of likeability–I definitely don’t require that my characters be likeable. But sometimes I think I’m supposed to click with characters in YA…
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic–ten fairytale retellings–didn’t seem that inspiring to me. I feel like I don’t read a lot of fairytale retellings. But suddenly books started popping into my mind and before I knew it, I had a list. Beauty by Robin McKinley.…
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Technically, this is last week’s topic, but I really enjoyed reading other people’s lists of their favorites so far in 2015 and decided I wanted to make my own list. A lively, engaging graphic novel about a tween who navigates changing…
Girlxoxo is hosting today’s link-up for A Month of Favorites. I had a really strong reading year in 2014–very few books that I wanted to put down. Well, except for the Newberys. Those I abandoned left and right, but since I DID put them down, I can’t very well feature them in this post. How…
Top Ten Tuesday is a book meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s prompt: Top Ten Books I’d Give to Readers Who Have Never Read X. I decided to focus on my current favorite type of reading, middle grade. I decided not to include any classic middle-grade titles, and I also set a rule…
