Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram I do my best to teach and connect and live with empathy. It think it’s one of the most critical and complicated skills that we can give to students – the ability to step into […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram ‘Whoever did this was looking to send a message of fear, aimed at all Muslims.’ It worked. I’m scared.” From the author of the beautiful picture book Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns comes Amina’s Voice, […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram A seventh grader suggested this book to me, but casually forgot to mention that it would rip my heart out and stomp on it by the time it was over. For Dan’s entire life, he […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!  View this post on Instagram I picked up Guitar Notes on a quest to find a good book about non-musical theater music performance and theory for my middle school musicians. (What a difficult topic to find – if you have […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Another seriously quirky story from Wendy Mass. The novel opens with a dodgeball hurtling toward Tessa’s head. Those few seconds stretch into slow motion as Tessa considers ducking to get out of the way – […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Albie is starting to realize that he’s different. Okay, so maybe he’s known for awhile – he can’t answer questions as quickly as his classmates, his teachers get frustrated with him so easily, and he […]

 Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Jade lives in the “bad” part of town. Her dark skin, curvy body, and unruly hair make it easy for people to assume that they know all about her – and she is so tired […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Another bittersweet, complicated story of grief and survival by #jasonreynolds . Mike Miller’s mother is dead. She was sick, and that was hard, but now she’s gone – and he has no idea how to […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Every time a student saw this book sitting in my “Ms. Fitz is Reading….” display, I got the same response – “I LOVE THAT BOOK!” And it’s easy to see why. In Home of the […]