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Friday Finds – November 6, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Sexual Abuse Does Not Cause Homosexuality and People are Not Rainbow Sprinkles Middle School Monday – The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare App Review: Image Chef Book Review: See No Color by Shannon Gibney Book Review: How to Be Brave by E. Katherine Kottaras Video Game […]
Middle School Monday – The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
I was so pleased to find that The Copper Gauntlet more than lived up to the promise of the first book in the Magisterium series, The Iron Trial. Initially as I read The Iron Trial I thought it was a good fantasy that my students would enjoy, but maybe lacking in the depth I was […]
Friday Finds – October 30, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: John Hughes, John Green, The Teen and Me Book Review: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Reviewed by Teen Reviewer Lexi) Middle School Monday – This year’s ‘Book for All Readers’ Book Review: What We Left Behind by Robin Talley Book Review: Stand Off […]
Middle School Monday – This year’s ‘Book for All Readers’
We just recently completed voting for our ‘Book for All Readers’ campaign for this school year. If you’d like to read more about the program, here is an explanatory post. Each year the students in my middle school nominate books for our schoolwide read. My Readers Club members help me narrow the voting pool down […]
Friday Finds – October 23, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: My Year of Unconventional Living Cover Reveal: THE MIDNIGHT WAR OF MATEO MARTINEZ by Robin Yardi Middle School Monday – Keep Your Eyes Peeled What’s New in LGBTQIA+ YA October, November, and December 2015 Fierce Reads Tour Author Interview Video Games Weekly: Video Games 101 – Beta Games MakerSpace: […]
Fierce Reads Tour Author Interview
I was fortunate enough to be contacted by the publicist for the Fierce Reads tour to interview four of their authors before their tour stop at a local book store. We sat around a table and had a nice chat about all manner of things. All 4 of the authors agreed that it was much […]
Middle School Monday – Keep Your Eyes Peeled
Kind of a gross expression, no? Perfectly suited to Middle School. So I saw this tweet earlier in the week, and it reminded me that there are several upcoming middle grade novels I’m excitedly waiting for: You guys. I CAN. NOT. WAIT. Rachel Hawkins is one of my favorite authors for YA, and she […]
Friday Finds – October 16, 2015
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: That Time I Sat and Soaked in the Glorious Words of Roxane Gay Star Wars Reads Day 2015 at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County Middle School Monday – What I Learned and Who I Saw at NerdCon Stories Book Review: Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. […]
The Toymaker’s Apprentice by Sherri L. Smith
Smith has done a brilliant job of breathing delightfully detailed life into the beloved story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, opening it to a new generation and wider audience. Stefan Drosselmeyer (the toymaker’s apprentice of the title) has lost his mother to illness and is preparing to leave his father and seek his […]
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