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Posted on September 16, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
I’m a winner! Thank you, Susan Ross (@SusanRossAuthor) for sending me Kiki and Jacques: A Refugee Story and Searching for Lottie from your #giveaway on Twitter. I can’t wait to get started! Searching for Lottie sounds perfect for my middle school students. Knowing that…
Category: IMWAYRTags: Gae Polisner, Holocaust stories, IMWAYR, Susan Ross
Posted on September 9, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
This is a big week of reading, since I’ll be presenting my introductory professional development session, “Picture Books are Perfect for Middle School & High School” on September 14th at the Indiana State Literacy Conference in Noblesville, IN. I will read MANY picture books…
Category: IMWAYRTags: #ISLA19, Gae Polisner, IMWAYR
Posted on September 2, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
This is a short school week, so there’s plenty of time for reading. This past weekend I finished Maybe He Just Likes You, Things You Can’t Say, and More to the Story (Hena Khan’s newest comes out tomorrow!). All three of these are going…
Category: IMWAYRTags: Hena Khan, IMWAYR, Stacy McAnulty
Posted on August 26, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
I’m catching up this week — finishing Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee (SO needed in our middle schools and high schools) and Things You Can’t Say by Jenn Bishop. I am gathering more wordless picture books right now for various uses….
Category: IMWAYRTags: #WNDB, IMWAYR, wordless picture books
Posted on August 19, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
Will you look at this mess? LOL Yes, I staged it (a little). This stack of books on my desk grows each day, and I love it! This week: Maybe He Just Likes You, by Barbara Dee — Barbara Dee has a way of…
Category: IMWAYRTags: IMWAYR, middle grade must-reads, tough topics
Posted on August 12, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
Bonus comes first today — THE SILENCE BETWEEN US by Alison Gervais (Blink YA Books) comes out TOMORROW! Maya Harris must leave Pratt School for the Deaf and attend a hearing school — for her senior year in high school! It’s bad enough being…
Category: IMWAYRTags: Alison Gervais, Blink YA Books, IMWAYR, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, picture books for fall
Posted on August 5, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
I didn’t read the stack of books in one week (see post from July22 here) like I wanted. I’m finishing up Anthem and Other Words for Home this week, as well as re-reading picture books I want to use in the first quarter of…
Category: IMWAYRTags: IMWAYR, picture books
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