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!

What Are You Reading Good (11/20/08)

I was sick last week and didn't post WAYRG.  :(

I had an idea that I am going to do at school and at home.  I'm going to create a poster where I can put up a sticky note with what I am reading good, and then I'm going to ask my students and my family to put up a sticky note to tell me what they are reading good.  You can do this at home with your family!  It's important to share what we read with others!

So...what are you reading good this week? REMEMBER..tell me the title, the author, what the book is about right now. Try to really be more specific than just saying it is interesting or it is fun. Make me want to read the book! Or...really support why I shouldn't read the book, if you don't like it.

This week I am reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.  I read The Thief Lord by Funke which is a great great great book.  I loved the characters and I loved the story.  This book is the first in a trilogy of books about a girl who loves to read and her father who is a bookbinder.  So far I am only at the beginning and her dad just disappeared because he was trying to save a book...sounds like an adventure waiting to happen!

I am also read Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko.  I have also read a book by Choldenko before but so far this one is great.  It's about a boy whose family goes to live on Alcatraz because his dad gets a job there.  Can you imagine living on Alcatraz!  I think it would freak me out too much!  This book is great so far!  The boy has a sister who is autistic that he has to take care of and the warden's daughter keeps getting him into trouble!

The Higher Power of Lucky

Most Recently Read Book:

The Higher Power of Lucky

By Susan Patron

This book is a sweet story about a girl whose mother dies and who is being raised now by her dad's ex-wife.  She lives in a teeny-tiny town with only 43 people in it.  The girl, Lucky worries that her dad's ex-wife, who is now her guardian, will leave her and she'll become an orphan or a ward of the state.  

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

Most Recently Read Book:

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

By James Patterson

Well...I have to say this was my least favorite in the Maximum Ride series.  As far as I know this is the last book in the series and it really was not a good book.  I did listen to this entire series on CD and this book was narrated by a different narrator so maybe that makes a difference, but I really didn't like the plot.  I loved the first and second books, and the third book for the most part, but this one was bad.  In this book Max and the flock go to Antarctica to try and do some research to help stop global warming only to get captured by another mad scientist kind of creature.  I know they are out to get them, but this was a little crazy, even for this series.  The whole time we have heard about Max's mission to save the world and this just didn't seem like a good ending.  Also, I'm a big fan of the romance that has been becoming more and more evident between Max and Fang.  Patterson addressed that in this book but at the same time just kind of said Max was freaked out and ended the book never talking about it again.  Maybe there will be another or more than one other book in this series.  If this really is the final book it was a very sad way to end the series.  Ugh.

Jinx

Most Recently Read Book:

Jinx

By Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is one of my favorite young adult authors.  I love The Princess Diaries series, and I also like the All-American Girl series.  Honestly, though, I have to say this was not one of my favorite Meg Cabot books.  Jinx is about a girl who moves to New York City to live with her aunt and uncle and to get away from an obssessed ex-boyfriend.  The weird part about this book is that the main character, Jinx, thinks she might be a witch.  It was just a little strange for me.  I love the Twilight series and vampires and everything, but I didn't really like reading about a witch.  I don't always like every book I read, and that's okay.  

What Are You Reading Good (11/06/08)

So...what are you reading good this week? REMEMBER..tell me the title, the author, what the book is about right now. Try to really be more specific than just saying it is interesting or it is fun. Make me want to read the book! Or...really support why I shouldn't read the book, if you don't like it.

I am currently reading Travel Team by Mike Lupica.  He is a well-known sports writer who has written many young adult novels about kids who play sports.  This book is about a boy who is really short but is really good at basketball.  He's really upset because for the first time ever, he doesn't make it onto the team.  It made me really sad now that I am a mom because it would make me so sad if my son didn't make the team.  That's all I know so far!

I am currently listening to Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson.  This is the fourth and final book in the Maximum Ride series.  Once I start a series, I like to finish it, or at least keep up with, especially if I like it.  If you remember, this series is about the group of bird-kids who are trying to escape from mad scientists.  They pretty much escaped but I think now someone else is going to come after them.  It's kind of slow in the book right now, but still entertaining.  I love Max as a character, she cracks me up!

The Sea of Monsters

Most Recently Read Book:

The Sea of Monsters

By Rick Riordan

Last night, I finished the second book in the Percy Jackson series: The Sea of Monsters. This series is about Percy Jackson, who is a demigod. A demigod is someone who is part Greek god and part human. I love these books because they incorporate ancient Greek mythology and real life as we know it. I think these books are great for students who like action and adventure.