It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and #bookaday

The epitome of summer reading - deck, Ben, and book - I think I just created a new hashtag...#benandbook

 

     This summer, Donalyn Miller invited us to participate in the Eighth Annual #bookaday Challenge.  Our last day of school this year was May 27th, so summer and free reading started before Memorial Day weekend!!  Joy!  It's hard to believe the summer is over.  I start back today.  So how did my #bookaday go?  I had 79 days of summer, so that means I needed to read 79 books to meet the challenge.  I read...59.  Oh well, I didn't quite average a book a day, but I read a lot of good books!

Here are my 5 star books...

PICTURE BOOKS

Pink is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals by Jess Keating, illustrations by David Degrand

Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood, illustrated by Sally Wern Comfort

Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie

The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers

Flora and the Peacocks by Molly Idle

A Beetle Is Shy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Return by Aaron Becker

Wendel the Narwhal by Emily Dove

Toys Meet Snow by Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky



What Do You Do With A Problem? by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Mae Besom



My Book of Birds by Geraldo Valerio

MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee

The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart

Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo

YOUNG ADULT

(5 stars)

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner

ADULT BOOKS



A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold



All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

PROFESSIONAL BOOKS



The Journey is Everything: Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them by Katherine Bomer



Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies by Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst




Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

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