Mrs. Read-A-Lot Update

Hi!  I have not been blogging on Mrs. Read-A-Lot because I wasn't able to access at school with my students.  I decided I am going to try again and see if my students can view it from school and really try and use it with them again.  

Even though I have not been blogging, I have still be reading!  I have read some really great books lately.  Here are some of my favorites:

Graceling By Kristin Cashore

The Year of the Dog By Grace Lin

Love That Dog By Sharon Creech

Seeing Redd By Frank Beddor (Part of the Looking Glass Wars series)

Fly on the Wall By E. Lockhart

I am the Messenger By Makus Zusak

Forever Princess By Meg Cabot (Part of the Princess Diaries series)

I will be back to post some cool stuff about folk literature soon.  I will even have some video!  Should be fun!

Pretty Tough

Most Recently Read Book:

Pretty Tough

Liz Tigelaar

I thought this was a great book!  Besides being a great book in general, it was a great book for girls, sisters, and athletes.  There were so many things going on in this book.  Charlie and Krista are sisters.  Charlie basically hates her sister because Krista didn't stand up for her when her best friends started a really mean rumor about her.  When Charlie is recruited for the soccer team,  she decides to try out because she knows it will make Krista mad since Krista is the start of the team.  At first Charlie just wants to make Krista mad but then she really starts to like soccer and they find out that they have to figure out how to get along if they want to succeed on the soccer field.  There's boys and friendship mixed in along the way...and lots of technical soccer stuff, too!   

Ready or Not

Most Recently Read Book

Ready or Not

By Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is one of my favorite authors.  She wrote the Princess Diaries series and lots of other fun books.  She is definitely a girly-girl author who writes about girls and their crazy lives...and usually boys.  This book, Ready or Not, is a sequel to All-American Girl.  The main character saves the President in the first book and starts dating the President's son Michael.  In this book she defends young American's rights...and has some fun along the way.  I would recommend this to students in high school because of some of the issues that are discussed.  I definitely recommend checking out Meg Cabot's other books if this one seems interesting to you!

What Are You Reading Good? (5/26/08)

Every Monday, I will be posting a new "What Are You Reading Good?" for the week. This is your chance to share what you are reading good for the week.  As a student, you should be reading about one book a week, depending on how long the book is. A Harry-Potter-sized book might count as three books because it is so long and so it may take you three weeks to finish.  Try and set a goal for yourself and see if you can meet it! 

I have just started reading The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler.  This story is about a girl who has never been swimming or totally underwater, even in a bathtub, in her whole life!  Finally, she begs her mom to let her take swimming lessons and when she gets in the pool her legs feel really weird and she can't control them...because she has changed into a mermaid!  Right now, she is pretty freaked out and not sure what to do about.  She is scared to tell her mom so she is trying to keep it a secret from her.  It doesn't seem like she really has friends so I wish she would tell her mom.  I hate keeping secrets unless they are fun secrets.  I can't wait to see what happens!  

Meg Cabot is one of my favorite authors.  She wrote the Princess Diaries series (made into Disney movies) and other fun books.  I have to admit, these are totally girly books, but they are fun!  This is the second book in the All-American Girl series.  In the first book, All-American Girl, the main character accidentally saves the president from being shot and becomes famous because of it.  She also ends up falling in love with and dating the president's son.  How cool is that?  In this book, so far, she is trying to decide if she is going to go to Camp David, the private hangout for the president (for real), with her boyfriend and the President for Thanksgiving.  Who wouldn't want to go to Camp David?  I hope she choses to go!  

What are you reading good?  Please share with me and other blog-readers.  I love to share what I am reading, to hear what others are reading, and to get ideas for books I want to read.  Let me know if you have questions about the books I am reading or about anything in this post. Don't forget, keep reading good!