How did I manage to miss this book when it came out in October 2020?   A friend lent me a copy to read, recently.   And this is not one yo...

 I went for a walk in the park the other day and I was thinking about how beautiful the day was.  That got me thinking about how my students...

A year or so ago, I reread  Summer of the Monkeys  by Wilson Rawls.  And fell in love with the book all over again.  Rawls captures boy-inno...

I have a thought! I remember hoping at this time of the year when I was in the classroom, that I'd have more energy, the days being long...

   I was never a fan of giving up the structure of the school year once state testing was over.  That didn't mean we didn't have fun...

"I like Percy Jackson but that's it."   "I don't like myths or fables. “Really?  What if you could write your own? ” ...

Have you ever had a book that your students loved but you just couldn't get into?  A couple of my students wanted me to read Enders Game...