Book Reviews
This Is Dalíby Catherine Ingram;
illus. by Andrew RaeMiddle School, High School Laurence King/Chronicle 80 pp.5/14 978-1-78067-109-3 $15.95 This Is Pollockby Catherine Ingram;
illus. by Peter ArkleMiddle School, High School Laurence King/Chronicle 80 pp.5/14 978-1-78067-346-2 $15.95 This Is Warholby Catherine Ingram;
illus. by Andrew RaeMiddle School, High School Laurence King/Chronicle 80 pp.5/14 ...
Egg & Spoonby Gregory MaguireMiddle School Candlewick 479 pp.9/14 978-0-7636-7220-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-7636-7582-0 $17.99An imprisoned man tells his story, Scheherazade-like, in letters to the tsar. He begins with Elena, a young girl in the impoverished Russian countryside who is nursing her dying mother and who has witnessed her brother...
In my first literature circle post, I gave an overall explanation about the purpose and how the initial meeting goes and left a few mini book reviews. In my second lit circle post, I pointed you guys to sources if you wanted to kick off your own. In this last...
Memoir is a genre that often gets subsumed under the big banner of biography. While biographies and autobiographies provide a broad overview of a subject’s life, the memoir is a repository of discrete moments and events that have crystallized into long-lasting recollections. Because they are generally told in the first...
I’m My Own Dogby David Ezra Stein;
illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp.8/14 978-0-7636-6139-7 $15.99“I’m my own dog. Nobody owns me. I own myself.” This independent, self-starter narrator looks down on ordinary pups, the ones owned by people. This dog will not sit for anyone, even if a...
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have
Changed the Earthby Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm; illus. by Molly BangPrimary Blue Sky/Scholastic 48 pp.9/14 978-0-545-57785-4 $17.99 gIn the latest of Bang and Chisholm’s excellent books on the role of the sun’s energy in powering life processes on Earth (Living Sunlight, rev. 5/09;...
The Madman of Piney Woodsby Christopher Paul CurtisIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 370 pp.9/14 978-0-545-15664-6 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-545-63376-5 $16.99In this companion to Newbery Honor Book Elijah of Buxton (rev. 11/07), it is now 1901, and for thirteen-year-old Benji Alston of Buxton, Ontario, the American Civil War is ancient history —...
Questby Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.8/14 978-0-7636-6595-1 $15.99Journey (rev. 9/13) introduced a girl with a magic red crayon who could draw her way into an adventure and back home. At the end of the book she met a boy with his own purple crayon. Quest —...
I’ve hit an academic dilemma at summer camp this year. For the past three years at this gifted students’ camp, my lead instructor has chosen to teach The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank). Yes, the book provides an entryway into a very difficult historical topic; yes, it’s pretty...
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