Saintly Spotlight: Brock

April 17, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Welcome to the Saintly Spotlight! The brilliant idea of Jack the library intern, The Saintly Spotlight is an opportunity for St. Anne’s-Belfield School’s most passionate readers to share their reading lives with their school community. All students in grades 5-8 are welcome to apply by customizing a Google Slides template with common reading related questions. […]

Insta Review: Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper

April 13, 2018.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 Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind is so beloved, there’s nothing new that I can say about it here. I’ve been waiting for what feels like years to read this novel, but I’m not exaggerating […]

Saintly Spotlight: Willow

April 11, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

4th and 5th Grade Book Club: A Wrinkle in Time

April 10, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

In a now infamous quote, Madeline L’Engle once wrote, “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” Last week, we put our talents to good use – creating a special celebration to help younger readers gets excited about a classic story that has been beloved […]

Saintly Spotlight: Spicer

April 5, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Ms. Fitz has Read… April 4, 2018

April 4, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

March’s update went out the window with Spring Break, but I’m back for our beginning of April check-in! As of this morning, I have read 66 books this year. I’m feeling good about that number and my progress toward my student challenge of 100 books by the end of the school year. I know that […]

Fitz’s Faves: M and H’s review of The 14th Goldfish, by Jennifer L. Holm

March 30, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm We gave this book 5 stars because its super funny and wacky. Its about a girl and her grandpa and something CRAZY happens to her grandpa. And now she is stuck with her grandpa going on crazy adventures like tryin to steal a chemical and sneaking into labs. […]

Insta Review: One Half from the East, by Nadia Hashimi

March 29, 2018.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 One year after Obayda’s father loses his leg in a market bombing in Kabul, she thinks that her life has changed as much as it possibly can. Her family had to leave their home to […]

Fitz’s Faves: E’s review of The Land of Stories, by Chris Colfer

March 27, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Saintly Spotlight: Cadigan

March 23, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.