It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA!
It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme started by Sheila at Book Journeys and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover the next “must-read” book!
Kellee and Jen, of Teach Mentor Texts, decided to give It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – join us! We love this meme and think you will, too.
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Last Week’s Posts
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Tuesday: Ten Books We Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing Our Boys
Wednesday: How the World Was: A California Childhood by Emmanuel Guibert
Friday: Wishapick by M.M. Allen
Sunday: MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of our friends and followers who celebrate!
Last Week’s Journeys
Kellee
I’m writing this quite early because MY PARENTS ARE COMING TO VISIT! I don’t see my parents anywhere as much as I wish I did because they live in Baton Rouge, but I get to have them here with me for 5 days, so I wanted to blog before they got here.
I finished reading the Mock Sibert books that I requested from the library, and they were all brilliant. I am definitely buying Jazz Day and I Dissent for my classroom, and Giant Squid and Radiant Child for my household.
I want to read everything by Matt de la Peña. He has a way of writing that just brings voice to whomever he chooses. This is my last #mustread2016 book I’m reading because I left the other one at school 🙁
I now can definitely see why Ghost was a National Book Award Finalist and is on so many Mock Newbery Lists including my club’s. I couldn’t put this book down. If you haven’t read Ghost’s story: PICK IT UP!
We are so lucky to get some amazing books for review, and I read two of them this week that I’ll be reviewing in January: Zack Delacruz Just My Luck by Jeff Anderson and Frightlopedia by Julie Winterbottom.
Ricki
Whoops. I started five new books this week and finished none. This is a common theme for me, lately!
This Week’s Expeditions
Kellee
I am currently reading The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner (I just started), and I plan on reading more choices from my Mock Newbery Club after I finish it.
Ricki
I am still enjoying For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…And the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin.
I just started Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia, and I am loving the strong voice. The narrator is very entertaining, and I find myself smiling often.
Upcoming Week’s Posts
Tuesday: Ricki’s Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2016
Wednesday: Natumi Takes the Lead by Gerry Ellis
Friday: Kellee and Ricki’s #MustReadin2016 Final Update!
Sunday: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
So, what are you reading?
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I feel the same way, Kellee! My folks live a couple of hours away now, so I don’t get to see them nearly as much anymore. It’s always exciting when they come to visit! Enjoy your family time together!!
I love spending time with them–I miss them so much!!! And thank you 🙂
Wow – another big batch of books from you two that I haven’t read yet or heard about. I can’t keep up! Sounds like some good reading for you both.
Hope you both enjoy your time off with your families – and your books, too!
Sue
Book By Book
Thank you, Sue! 🙂
I Dissent is definitely a book I need to be buying – for myself and for our school library.
I am so glad I read it! She is such an inspiration, and it is a beautiful book.
I listened to Ghost on audio and it was fabulous. I will definitely be picking up other Jason Reynolds books for my own reading as well as for my library. Enter Title Here and the Seventh Wish sound good to me too. Thanks for sharing as always and happy reading to you both!!
Seventh Wish was good! I loved it, and I think it is is so important.
Enjoy family visits and lots of reading. The Seventh Wish is fantastic. Hope you like it Kellee.
Thank you, Carrie, and I did enjoy it very much 🙂
I wanted to read all of Matt’s works as well but added them to my Must Read for 2016 too late. I still want to check out his works but maybe just let the books come to me naturally.
I’m very tempted to start a whole bunch of novels this year so I can count them for next year when I finish them!
You cracked me up! What an awesome idea: read 99% of 10+ books then finish them after midnight on the 1st 🙂