Great Easy/Fiction Titles for April 2019
Check out these exciting easy and fiction titles published in April. Happy reading! ELEMENTARY PICTURE BOOKS Animalicious : A Quirky ABC Book by Anna Dewdney & Reed Duncan (ill. by [...]
Series Review: Human Body Helpers
The human body is wonderful and complex! There are so many different systems that work together to keep our bodies functioning at their peaks. However, sometimes our bodies need a little help. [...]
Fostering Social-Emotional Learning Through Literacy
“Treat others the way you want to be treated.” “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” “If you fall off the horse, get back on and try again.” For most of us, these Golden [...]
6 Ways to Start Adding a Makerspace to Your School Library
6 years after creating our first makerspace, it only makes sense to publish a post that focuses on 6 steps for creating a makerspace. Step 1: Create a personal philosophy for what making means. [...]
The Outsiders Library Collaboration
One of my favorite things to do as a school librarian is to use our spaces and resources to bring literature to life. Recently, we have started a collaboration based on S.E. Hinton’s, The [...]
The Writing Process: Guest Post by Eileen Spinelli
We are excited to welcome Eileen Spinelli as our guest author today. Her most recent book, Birdie, is a novel in verse about a young girl struggling with grief and the changes in her life after [...]
Keep Your Series Current: April 2019
Update your popular series with these books published in April. Enjoy! PRIMARY SERIES & SEQUELS Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants (Questioneers, Book 2) by Andrea Beaty (ill. by [...]
Stories in Verse
In a PBS NewsHour interview, Jason Reynolds, the award winning young adult literature author, shares his ideas on how poetry can get more young people interested in reading. And I couldn’t agree [...]
