Ireland!

On December 27th I will be heading to Ireland for a few days.  I have a few posts scheduled to pop up while I am gone, but I will be enjoying my vacation and staying away from the blog.  

 

Happy New Year!

One month!

In exactly one month, the Newbery award winners will be announced.  I still have a good number of books to read!    Thanks to Betsy Bird at Fuse #8 for putting together a tally of the mock Newbery lists so far!  I’ve read a good number of them so far:

• The Postcard by Tony Abbot
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (current read-aloud with my class!)
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (the last read-aloud for my class)
• Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume
• A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
• Hate That Cat: A Novel by Sharon Creech
• Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell
• Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Grow by Juanity Havill
• Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
• The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
• Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass
• Clementine’s Letter by Sara Pennypacker
• Six Innings by James Preller
• Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt

 

I’m pretty impressed with the reading I have done so far!  Of course, I have a good deal left to do.  And everyday I read about another book that I just have to read before the awards are announced.  So here’s to lots of reading in the next few weeks!