It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/22/19
Last Week
It’s been such a busy week! And I’m excited to say I survived the excessive heat all weekend. It was positively disgusting when I took the pup for a very brief walk around the block at 9:30 at night and the feels like temperature was still at 100˚ F. Thankfully, the weather should be in the mid-80s the rest of the week and I honestly can’t wait.
I was a reading machine this week! In fact, I finished four titles and am in the middle of a fifth! I finished The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue by Karina Yan Glaser and Karina continues to impress me as I fall more in love with the Vanderbeeker family in every book. Afterward, I also read Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling. The story takes place at the beginning of 9th grade, which you don’t see a lot in upper middle grade/ early young adult books. I liked this one as well, especially as Aven continues to deal with other kids’ responses to her disability.
Then I realized after scrolling through Twitter, that I had forgotten about the MG @ Heart Summer Bingo! So I read two titles I picked up at ALA that were also on my summer bingo list – Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman and Silver Meadows Summer by Emma Otheguy. Both were extremely well written and I want to talk about them more in-depth in their own posts. And then I started The Distance to Home by Jenn Bishop. I’m just in the beginning pages, but already interested in a sports story with a female protagonist.
Reading List for Week of 7/22/19
As for what else I have planned this week, I’m thinking about getting deeper into that Summer Bingo list and placed on hold:
- The Battle of Junk Mountain by Lauren Abbey Greenberg
- Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway
- Lizzie Flying Solo by Nancy Turner Steveson
- Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron
What are your reading plans 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. Check out the hashtag #IMWAYR for reading suggestions from readers across the globe.
