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Top 10 Reasons Secondary Students Need Regular Library Time
Fact: Elementary students have regularly-scheduled library time every week. This time usually includes a storytime, booktalk, or other lesson, as well as time to browse and check out library books. No...
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Genre Personality Profile: The Questioner
Do you have Questioners in your library? Of course you do! Today we will look at the second of our eight genre personality profiles: The Questioner. Here goes...The description that the students see in...
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Genre Personality Profile: The Class Clown
Class Clowns are an interesting bunch. On the surface, the genre personality suggests an outgoing student who attracts attention by being funny. And that is true of some Class Clowns. But I think many...
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New Releases for Kids and Teens--October 18, 2016
Welcome to New Release Tuesday! I am super-psyched this week to see THREE Christmas fiction novels for teens. I booktalked some of these titles with my classes today, and I told them that if anyone is...
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Review: Salt to the Sea (Sepetys)
Oh, beautiful, heartbreaking book! Salt to the Sea is a must-read. Easily one of my 2016 favorites. AUTHOR: Ruta SepetysSERIES: nonePUBLISHER: PhilomelPUBLICATION DATE: February 2, 2016ISBN:...
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New Releases Tuesday--October 25, 2016
Wait a second! It's Monday, not Tuesday! Why am I posting New Release Tuesday a day early? Well...last week, I added the new release PowerPoint I've been using in my library during student breaks and...
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Putting the BOO! in books! 10 Creepy Read-Alouds for Middle Schoolers
It's funny how the stories that terrified us as children can still give us shivers as adults. I read Judith Stamper's Tales for the Midnight Hour to eighth and tenth graders today, and I STILL got...
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Genre Personality Profile: The Realist
A few years ago, vampires and werewolves were all the rage in my library. Then, we had a short zombie craze. Then, it was dystopias, which had a great run and are still pretty popular. This year...
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Review: Blood for Blood (Graudin)
I could not wait to read this book! I loved Wolf By Wolf--it was one of my favorite books last year! This one did not disappoint, but it did lose me a little bit in the middle. AUTHOR: Ryan...
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Review: Salt to the Sea (Sepetys)
Oh, beautiful, heartbreaking book! Salt to the Sea is a must-read. Easily one of my 2016 favorites. AUTHOR: Ruta SepetysSERIES: nonePUBLISHER: PhilomelPUBLICATION DATE: February 2, 2016ISBN:...
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Remember the Goldie Hahn and Kurt Russell movie Overboard? Teen readers probably won't know this movie, but adults older than 35 or so will remember it well. Starbound is kind of an interplanetary...
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Review: One (Crossan)
Though I found it a tad predictable, I thoroughly enjoyed this unique story of 16-year old conjoined twin sisters. When I booktalked this with my students, they were very interested in conjoined twins...
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Help Your Students Remember What They Read (PPT)
The idea for this presentation came from an email I got from one of my Battle of the Books students. Our BB competition is not until April, and one of my seventh graders emailed me to ask for tips to...
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New releases--November 1, 2016
Last week's list only had a few books I was excited about, but this week's list has a whole bunch! This week, the 19 YA titles catch my eye the most, with titles like Diabolic, The Sun Is Also A Star,...
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Genre Personality Profile: The Innovator
This is the sixth set of Genre Personality Profile bookmarks. The Innovator is formerly The MacGyver, which I changed due to potential copyright concerns. Innovators are a large Genre Personality group...
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New Releases--November 8, 2016
Could it be the presidential election? The post-Fall-Back-weekend hangover? The early-November-is-it-Christmas-yet confusion? I'm not sure why there aren't many new releases this week, but I didn't...
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Genre Personality Profile: The History Buff
This is the seventh set of Genre Personality Profile bookmarks. Based just on my own classes, the History Buff Genre Personality is the smallest group for students. I tend to only have two or three...
View ArticleGenre Personality Profiles: The Gang's All Here!
Thank you all for your patience as I finished the Genre Personality bookmarks. After six weeks, I have finally (FINALLY!) finished bookmarks for all eight Genre Personalities! That's 32 bookmarks,...
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New Releases--November 15, 2016
It's New Release Tuesday! This week's releases are heavy in the YA and picture book categories. I am most excited about three YA mysteries this week: the missing person mystery The Girl in the Picture,...
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What Mystery Genre Character Are You? Quiz
Are you The Accomplice? The Criminal? The Detective? The Witness? The Victim? This 12-question quiz is a fun way to introduce students to the mystery genre and the concept of literary archetypes. Like...
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