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A friendly, urgent, subtle, dire warning: You have until 11:59 p.m. tonight (Monday) to get you entry in for the May ’09 100 Scope Notes Book Giveaway. The Potato Chip Puzzles and Toby Alone are up for grabs. Click here to view the books and find out how to enter.
When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (Random House) ISBN: 978385747425 $15.99 Grades 6-8 In Stores July 14, 2009 *Best New Books* Do you enjoy getting chills? Are you a fan of thoughtful, engrossing, surprising storytelling? How do you feel about books that stick with you long after you’ve finished reading? I’m […]
No two book giveaways a created the same. This one? This is a good one. Indeed, a first. Not one, but two *Recommended* books are up for the procuring. How can you get your hot, peanut butter M&Ms-smudged hands on one? Send an email to scopenotes@gmail.com or “hit me up” on Twitter (I’m working hard […]
I began this post with a humble question: Which books are being bought? Below, courtesy of Reading Radar (who pulls from the New York Times Best Seller list), are my findings. Let’s start with picture books. (Click anywhere on the image to view the entire top ten) Listen to the Wind has been residin’ in […]
There’s something about big machines that captures the imagination of kids. I can identify. When I was a youngster, my county fair held a monster truck show and parked all of the massively-tired vehicles in the church parking lot across from my house. I almost lost it. I mean Bigfoot? Come on. Two recent titles […]
Roadwork By Sally Sutton Illustrated by Brian Lovelock Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763639129 $15.99 Grades PreK-1 In Stores *Best New Books* Also reviewed by The Book Chook. Find this book at your local library with WorldCat.
There are a number of things I could say about this photo, but I’ll just let it speak for itself (click to see full size): A Wild Thing and Curious George coming to visit my school.
Do you ever wish you had a cool backstory? You know, like how Spiderman was bitten by a radioactive spider or how how Superman was… born super (bad example). I wish I had a better school librarian backstory, other than “I really enjoyed reading and hanging out in my high school media center”. I want […]
Have you had enough of all these “good” books? You know, the ones that are all well written, nicely illustrated, and up to date? Because everywhere I go and in everything I read, that’s what I see. Best Books of the Year, Recommended Books, Starred Books, it’s about time we started tipping the scales back […]
One of the best parts of my job is selection. I get to choose and purchase the books for four elementary schools serving Pre-K up to 6th grade. Indeed, I’ve learned to always have a big list going. Today, our last book order of the school year came in to my K-4 building, and looking […]
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