It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
Sharing Picture Books, Early Readers, Middle Grade Books, and Young Adult Books for All Ages!
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop co-hosted by Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts which focuses on sharing books marketed for children and young adults. It offers opportunities to share and recommend books with each other.
The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.
We encourage you to write your own post sharing what you’re reading, link up below, leave a comment, and support other IMWAYR bloggers by visiting and commenting on at least three of the other linked blogs.
Happy reading!
Tuesday: Student Voices: Thoughts on Characters from Ana T., Katie S., Eva S., and Gabriela C.
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Kellee
Hi!! It is Ricki’s week for a long post, so I’ll update next week 🙂 But as always, you can learn more about what I’ve been reading by checking out my 2022 Goodreads Challenge page or my read bookshelf on Goodreads.
Ricki
I finished Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hogan. It is a powerful book, and I loved the discussion it offered for intersectionality. I also appreciated the book’s interrogation of body image and body weight and critiques of feminism. I highly recommend this one.
Ricki
I haven’t decided what my next book will be. I am thinking I will read Parachutes by Kelly Yang. A friend recommended it. 🙂
Tuesday: Student Voices: Recommendations by Anna Liz R., Brielle P., Ava G., Chase S., and Silvia S.
Thursday: Guest Post: Classroom Uses for Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott, Magnificent Makers: How to Test a Friendship by Theanne Griffith, Polly Diamond and the Magic Book by Alice Kuipers, and Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Saturday: Guest Review: The Bad Seed by Jory John, Illustrated by Pete Oswald
Sunday: Author Guest Post by Kerry L. Malawista, Author of Meet the Moon
Link up below and go check out what everyone else is reading. Please support other bloggers by viewing and commenting on at least 3 other blogs. If you tweet about your Monday post, tag the tweet with #IMWAYR!
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I’m planning on reading Parachutes in August! It’s on my Must Read List this year.
I loved Parachutes! It’s definitely mature…but so powerful. I also enjoyed Watch Us Rise-it was very powerful and inspiring.
Watch Us Rise is on my list. I encourage you to read Parachutes. There is a lot in it. The two characters seem to be really disparate, but have more in common that we would like.
Ricki, I wasn’t familiar with Watch Us Rise, but it looks like an excellent read! And I second everyone else’s recommendations of Parachutes—I read it 2 years ago, and it is an incredibly powerful read! Thank you both so much for the great post and link round-up!