It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/4/2014

This week was a great week of reading!  I got though a lot of awesome books and can’t wait to keep reading this week.  I was able to read Dodger and Me by Jordan Sonnenblick.  We’re excited to have Jordan visiting our library this summer and I’ll be offering a book discussion for our older elementary students on Dodger and Me, so all that’s left is to write up my discussion questions.  The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett is a great story for 3rd/4th/4th grade boys labeled “reluctant readers,”  it’s about two boys who both want to be the best prankster in the school until they realize that working together could get them farther than ever!  It’s a very entertaining and silly read!  I also got the chance to read Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi about a 12-year-old boy whose whole world is baseball and detective stories until one day when the FBI comes to the door and accuses his father of being a Communist.  Set in 1951, it’s an eye-opening historical fiction account of the disruption of everyday people’s lives during the Red Scare.
This week, I’m right in the middle of If You Find This by Matthew Baker – a great mystery.  I’m also planning on listening to The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos on my way to a meeting tomorrow.  I’m also grabbing Moonpenny Island  by Tricia Springstubb and Dangerous by Shannon Hale.  We’ll see how much I can get read as I’ve got programming going on every night this week!

Join Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers and share all of the reading you have done over the week from picture books to young adult novels. Follow the links to read about all of the amazing books the #IMWAYR community has read. It’s the best way to discover what to read next.