…because libraries should be magic.
Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! Sharon Creech doesn’t just write stories – she creates visual soundscapes that fill the air around you as you read. Her writing is like jazz, with the reader be-bopping and toe tapping their way through a story without even […]
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I gave this book five stars because it is my favorite book in the whole wide world! Emma Pearl Casey lives in a little apartment on top of her family’s cafe and graveyard: The Boneyard Cafe. Emma enjoys giving tours and telling stories in the graveyard to her friends, family and other customers. But Emma’s […]
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Every so often, wandering through the library with my middle school groups, I’ll hear a sound that is music to my ears: students “You have to read this book. It’s so good. I’m obsessed with it.” Peer to peer recommendations are incredibly powerful. No matter how well I know a student or how passionately I […]
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I give this book five stars. The Scarlet Dragon is a really good book. Lucas and Clara are on a ride with the Queen and King to see a scarlet dragon egg. When it hatches Lucas keeps it as a pet. Soon the dragon gets sick if he does not get berries by sundown he […]
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When I first started working with kids, I was under the naive assumption that parents and teachers had complete power over the opinions of the children that they work with. “My students will always be kind and patient and tolerant,” I thought, “because that is what I will teach them.” Cute, right? Enter: Reality. Children […]
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Over on School Library Journal today, STAB Computer Science Coordinator Kim Wilkens and I are talking about Foiling Fake News, a unit we developed for fourth graders to help them to put their digital literacy and computer science skills to the test. We had a blast while helping our fourth graders to sharpen their critical thinking […]
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This student book review was independently written, created, and edited by Alejandra, a St. Anne’s-Belfield School student, and shared digitally via Google Docs. Alejandra is in the fourth grade.
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When I feel small in a world so big, when I wonder how I fit in, when the world is spinning so fast… I tell my wiggling body: be still. I tell my thinking mind: be quiet. I tell my racing breath: be slow. – I Am Yoga, by Susan Verde In the transition from […]
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This book is about a zombie named Zombie or his mom call him that. Any who at Zombie’s school a new kid named Blaze is super cool. And Blaze calls him Zack or that’s Zombie’s name. Zombie has to change his clothes but Blaze is not a zombie so he is a I actually don’t […]
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It’s time for some real talk. I have to admit something. Something that most teachers and librarians will never admit. It’s not a particularly popular opinion amongst educators. But I’m not ashamed. I’ll shout it from the rooftops: I love graphic novels. Seriously. I do. Give me all the epic adventure series, the cartoon fractured […]
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