Students are always asking me to help them find good books to read. Mrs. Lantz and I have started booktalking during GOAL students' library time on Thursdays to recommend good books to students. I hope to update this blog every week with the books that have been shared, but the following is a list of all the books I've shared up to this point:
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Pirates! by Celia Rees
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Singularity by William Sleator
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Cracker! by Cynthia Kadohata
Hattie Big Sky by Korby Larson
The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
Gods, Men, & Monsters from the Greek Myths by Michael Gibson
Mysteries of the Mummy Kids by Kelly Milner Halls
Boston Jane: An Adventure by Jennifer L. Holm
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
Firebirds by Sharyn November
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Thanks so much for booktalking my book MYSTERIES OF THE MUMMY KIDS. If there is anything I can do to help you get kids excited about books, let me know. I'd be happy to help.
ReplyDeleteBest always,
Kelly Milner Halls
Wow! Thanks for commenting on my blog... my students and I were so excited to read it! And, thanks for your willingness to be involved with kids and reading.
ReplyDeleteBest to you too!
Tena Nelson
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Can I get NU points for commenting on this? because I think that I have books that some people might like to read. I personally like the authors Chris Crutcher, Mike Lupica, and John Feinstein. They all write about sports.
ReplyDeleteYour comments are always appreciated and encouraged, but NUPoints are wonderfully random. In other words, no. :)
ReplyDeleteI have read three of these books; Small Steps, Mysteries of the Mummy Kids, and Phineas Gage.
ReplyDeleteSmall Steps; I really liked this book because I enjoy reading about diseases. This book is about a girl who is just going on with a regular life when she gets polio. She dosen't know what she is going to do. She ends up being paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
Mysteries of the Mummy kids; This book was really informational on how mummys come to be and related topics. The pictures were kind of disturbing to me but other than that the book was great.
Phineas Gage; This book told the story of Phineas Gage. When Phineas is working with a company that works with explosives, he accidentially blows the metal rod through his head. The rest of his life takes place when he is being studied. Everyone was questioning why he didn't die. His injury really helped science study the human brain.