It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a weekly blog hop hosted by Kellee and Ricki of Unleashing Readers. The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.
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My husband and I are celebrating his birthday this week — lots of restaurant gift cards and family fun. I read a few new things, but mostly I’m spending time with family and watching Notre Dame Women’s Basketball – go Irish!
Libro.fm and NetGalley: I’m still reading along with the audiobook, Please Pay Attention by Jamie Sumner. Being disabled and having a school shooting and having to deal with all that trauma…this book is moving. Honestly, I’m not sure how many students will want to read this one, but it’s important. I will probably read it aloud to a group; we can find community with this title.
Physical Books: I received a package of books from Publisher Spotlight (Thank you, Tracy!) and I’m loving these titles! So timely, too, as spring, Eid, and Easter are just around the corner. Look!
Eid for Nylah – Nizrana Farook and Zelma Firdauzia created a celebration for Nylah the cat, who doesn’t understand why no one in the family has time to play. The family and neighbors are all so busy! Nylah searches around and finds out during a walk in the park what the big deal is…it’s Eid! This is an adorable story to be shared. Eid al-Fitr is March 30 and observed on the 31st — time to celebrate!
Ellis Island Passover – Marissa Moss is a favorite author with Creston Books, and she used her grandfather’s story as her inspiration here. I love family stories and especially now, I love joyful immigration stories. Perfect for the spring holiday!
If you know me at all, you know I’m a fan of reading and helping readers, and this book is up to the tasks. Just One More Story by Perry Emerson and Sean Julian is about Pip and Bun, two very different bunnies. Pip LOVES to read, but Bun says, “Reading is BORING!” But when Pip tells Bun that reading isn’t for LITTLE bunnies anyway, Bun becomes interested. Of course, I love this title and with Easter coming up, maybe someone could receive this as a holiday gift.
Always looking for mystery chapter books, I came across (in that beautiful box from Publisher Spotlight) A Recipe For Trouble, An Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire story. My upper elementary and middle school “foodie” students will love this – “Paris, mid-1930s. Alice Éclair is a regular 13-year-old girl, whipping up amazing confections in her mother’s patisserie, Vive Comme L’Éclair. But she’s been receiving mysterious messages…” Ah! I was hooked by the back cover. Bonus: there are codes to crack and clues to find, which is fun!
It’s Monday! What are YOU reading?
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I’m going to look for Ellis Island Passover, thanks for the recommendation. I’ve got 42 picture books from the library checked out right now and I planned to return about 15 yesterday and pick up one or two more from my hold shelf but the power was out and I couldn’t get there.
Too many to name them all but I’ll mention JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY, by Lisa Rogers & Stacy Innerst and a middle grade I just read and loved is the new Megan E Freeman companion to ALONE which called AWAY and it’s amazing!
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