Insta Review: Cleopatra in Space by Mike Maihack

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Take Cleopatra, the infamous Pharoh, and inexplicably plant her in space. In the future. At the age of fifteen. Still with me? Well then you’ve got pretty much the whole point of the graphic novel […]

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Words Matter: 2017 Picture Book 10 for 10

Does it feel sometimes like we live in a world where words are shared without much thought to their consequence? Educators have the opportunity to teach students just how powerful their words can be. Now more than ever we want our children to know that words matter. Words can build up or tear down, and […]

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Insta Review: An Elephant in the Garden, by Michael Morpurgo

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Guys, I tried with this book. I really did. I love reading along with my students and my sixth graders seemed to be enjoying this one in their English class, so I happily picked it […]

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Insta Review: The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket, by John Boyne

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket = Roald Dahl + Rainbow Rowell, with illustrations by Oliver Jeffers 😍 Barnaby Brocket has never been normal. From the moment he was born, Barnaby floated, unable […]

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Insta Review: Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram One of my 8th grade study hall girls suggested this book – “I was obsessed. I read it all in one night.” I can certainly see why she got hooked – but I'm torn halfway […]

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Insta Review: The Misfits, by James Howe

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram A sweet story of knowing yourself and making peace with the fact that you don't fit in. Bobby and his friends (including Joe from Totally Joe and Addie from Addie on the Inside, popular companion […]

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Insta Review: The Princess in Black, by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram “Princesses do not run. Princesses do not stuff frilly pink dresses into broom closets. Princesses do not wear black.” Princess Magnolia is entertaining Dutchess Wingtower in her castle when her glitter-stone ring rings to alert […]

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Insta Review: Hour of the Bees, by Lindsay Eagar

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!  View this post on Instagram I’m not exactly sure what happened when I was reading The Hour of the Bees. One moment I remember thinking, “Man, this book is off to slow start. I wonder if I’ll make it through…” […]

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Insta Review: Seeing Red, by Kathryn Erskine

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Seeing Red looks like a typical “boy book”. Young man on the cover, standing on a bright red pickup truck, a summary that includes the male hero coming of age and learning to understand his […]

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Insta Review: Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This book was suggested by a fellow middle school librarian on a thread regarding books dealing with middle school bullying. And while the book itself is lovely, it is so abstract – or, in middle […]

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