Insta Review: Fallout, by Todd Strasser

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Eerie historical fiction (or just plain fiction? I'm not sure) that takes the reader back to the Cuban Missile Crisis – and drops the 💣. I loved Fallout's juxtaposition as it flashes between Scott's […]

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Insta Review: Lola Levine is not Mean, by Monica Brown

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Lola Levine won us over, Brian included 😺 This easy reader is cute and funny and features a main character with some cultural diversity – which you've maybe noticed is a theme around here. […]

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Insta Review: Public School Superhero, by James Patterson

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram What an odd book. Public School Superhero has all the right components: graphic novel sections, slang-filled teen dialogue, child-appropriate battles of social justice and morality. But the truth of the book is blaring throughout…this […]

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The Summer I Read like a Student

This summer, I challenged myself to read 30 books. Between the making and the biking, I was ready to do what I challenge my students to do – practice, work toward becoming a better reader, and find the joy in discovering a new story. The challenge was important to me on multiple levels. After a school […]

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Insta Review: Fable Comics, by Various Authors

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Fairy Tale comics were all the rage with my older elementary students, so this was a natural next step. Or, it should have been. Maybe I don't know my fables as well as most, […]

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Insta Review: Dream On, Amber by Emma Shevah

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Amber is part Mexican, part Japanese, and all mixed up. This cute story wasn't anything special, but I loved that Amber's culture was a part of her character – without being the only defining […]

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Insta Review: Lost in the Sun, by Lisa Graff

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram It's magic when a book can take you inside the mind of a child that feels so fiercely but can't verbally express those feelings. In the wake of a terrible accident, Trent has so […]

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Insta Review: The School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!  View this post on Instagram One school, two factions, and a huge fairy tale rivalry. A great premise, but the plot – and the point – get lost in a wordy, confusing mess. I think the author meant to […]

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Insta Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!  View this post on Instagram With a blockbuster movie coming out later this year and about a million recommendations, I had high expectations for this creepy looking novel. But somewhere between the the jungle of unnecessary adverbs and the […]

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