Insta Review: They Both Die at the End, by Adam Silvera

March 27, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Give this one a chance, pessimists, it’s less depressing than it sounds. Somewhere in the near future, a company called Death-Cast has the technology to know the day that you’re going to die – and […]

Insta Review: Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds

March 22, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Jason Reynolds is a unicorn. He’s open about the fact that growing up, he was not a reader: “It’s not something I’m proud of. It’s not cool. The truth is, my life was made infinitely […]

Insta Review: Mimi, by Johnny Newman

March 11, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram When Mimi’s mom died suddenly, parts of everyone else died with her. Her father spends most of his time staring into space and attempting to make frozen pizza; her sister only wears black and will […]

Insta Review: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick

March 6, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram “Oh gee, I think I’ll pick up this happy looking book about drums and teen romance,” innocent past Ms. Fitz said. “It looks like a good weekend read.” Wow, I am wrong a lot. Not […]

Fitz’s Faves Jr: M’s review of I Survived The Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis

February 14, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011, by Lauren Tarshis I gave this book five stars because 11 year old Dexter runs into Dr. Norman Gage and invites Dexter to chase an EF-5 tornado and turns out stronger than they think. There friends come to save them from the tornado and when they come back to Joplin […]

Insta Review: Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

February 12, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram How do you prepare for a devastating hurricane when you don’t know what a hurricane looks like or feels like? Can’t evacuate – no money, no car, nowhere to go. Can’t buy extra supplies – […]

Ms. Fitz has Read… February 4, 2019

February 6, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

What is Ms. Fitz reading? Here’s the view from February 4th! With our 2019 Challenge taking up this wall all January, it’s been awhile since my last check in! My recent favorites include Pride, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Blended, Mercí Suarez Changes Gears (which won the Newbery a few weeks later!), the graphic novel adaptation […]

We Did It! 2019 Challenge Celebration

January 24, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Not only did the Learning Village community meet its goal to read 2,019 books in January, they surpassed it eight days early! On Wednesday, Jan. 23, Learning Village Librarian invited students to meet for a top secret meeting, which turned into a celebration full of dancing, confetti, cheering, and general excitement and pride in accomplishing […]

Insta Review: One Came Home, by Amy Timberlake

January 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Sloooooooooow goooooooooing. In a throwback to last year’s inchworm of a novel The Green Glass Sea comes one of the most plodding historical mysteries I’ve ever made it through. One Came Home opens with a […]