It’s Banned Book Week! These two books are exemplary fictional explorations on the subject of book banning. Both book includes reference to real-life book bans, which creates the potential for an ongoing reading list. Often humorous and propulsive these books would make for great classroom or family read-alouds at any time throughout the year. Ban […]
2024-2025 School Year Picture Books Sources are listed here. Chooch Helped illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers Randolph Caldecott Medal “Sissy has a mischievous 2-year-old brother called Chooch—an affectionate nickname based on the Cherokee word for boy or son. No matter what the usdi (baby) does, he “just gets away […]
by Claire Vaye Watkins by Claire Vaye Watkins Format: ebook Primary Doorways: Character, Setting Genre: Autobiographical fiction Claire Vaye Watkin’s book I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness is like if the concept “The Biggest Shit in the Center of the Universe” wrote a book about itself. Following a fictionalized version of Claire, the book […]
by Tamsyn Muir Format: Audiobook Primary Doorways: Plot, Setting Genre: High Fantasy Read for: Characters you like so much you’re sad to be parted from them by the book ending. Note: 3rd in a series. Not a standalone. Tamsyn Muir’s Nona the Ninth is the third book of four in the Locked Tomb series. Knowing […]
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