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

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 […]

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Insta Review: Ozma of Oz, by Eric Shanower

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram With its mix of text and detailed illustrations, this book is great for students just learning to read graphic novels because it forces them to slow down and read carefully. Just like reading traditional novels, […]

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Insta Review: Snow White, by Matt Phelan

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!   View this post on Instagram I was expecting a graphic novel retelling of the classic fairy tale, but what I found instead was a smoky, film noir adaptation with a 30’s flair. Samantha White, lovingly called Snow, is just […]

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Insta Review: American Street, by Ibi Zoboi

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Stunning cover with a novel inside to match. When Fabiola and her mother step off of their flight from Haiti onto US ground, she expects magic and light. Instead, her mother is immediately torn from […]

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Insta Review: Ghostopolis, by Doug TenNapel

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram TenNapel fever has taken over our library, and after our Cardboard book club, I can’t keep any of his graphic novel epic adventures on the shelves. Ghostopolis is probably his second most requested here, almost […]

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Ms. Fitz has Read…February 6, 2018

Happy February! I read 24 books in January, but so far this week, I’ve been stuck on number 26. Here’s hoping that I get out of my slump, because my goal is to reach 40 by Spring break! So far, I’ve tried to read a wide variety and to try books that I might not […]

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Insta Review: Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Pam Munoz Ryan novels have a dangerous tendency to get me so emotionally involved that all other parts of my brain stop working. So you would think that I would avoid them while operating a […]

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Insta Review: Under the Never Sky, by Veronica Rossi

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Veronica Rossi’s dystopian novel hits all of the expected points of a futuristic teen drama, and blockbuster fans will be happy. The world as we know it has been ravaged by Ether storms and the […]

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Insta Review: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

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 […]

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Insta Review: Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

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, […]

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