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this is a really funny book and i really enjoy reading it

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My family

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This was an absolutely wonderful book to read. A great story about the women airforce service pilots during WW2.

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This is a fabulous non fiction text of two teens and the crime that altered their lives. The text explores identity, race, gender, and incarceration. My teacher candidate taught this novel to my grade 9 students as part of an Editorial assignment. A powerful text and worth the read.

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I'm actually re-reading the first two books in the series because the 3rd came out two days ago. I love high stakes YA fantasy. Triplet queens are born in each generation, raised separately, and then in their sixteenth year, one must kill the other two to become queen.

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By Andrew Clements

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A 52 book series full of adventures, mystery, and cats, lots and lots of cats

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My Escape from North Korea: a Thousand Miles to Freedom

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My Escape from North Korea: a Thousand Miles to Freedom

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Follows a family escaping to South Korea through China during a great famine. Reminded me to appreciate my freedom and rights as an American citizen.

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A phenomenal book from Angie Thomas. So important for students to

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A peek into the psyche and lives of a transgendered boy and a boy with bi-polar disorder. Excellent character voice.

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Awesome middle years book about how friendships evolve and the power of our words.

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It is a brilliant, and sometimes funny, look at managing life while dealing with OCD. I can't recommend it enough, because it teaches the reader about accepting that seemingly simple parts of life, such as going through a door, can be very difficult for some people, and that is ok. It also shows different ways OCD can effect different people. Fantastic!

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Heidi Heilig

For those interested in adventure, pirates, and time travel!

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it was a great book very enticing, great novel by Leo Tolstoy

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I was ready to not like this book because I tend to be turned off by the romance heavy stories like Everything, Everything, her other book. But I am enjoying the style of the writing as well as the conversation it starts about loyalty to family, fate, purpose, art, and the fear of living a meaningless life. These are topics I connect to as an adult and topics I would love to have rattling around in the heads of the teens I teach.

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Just finished Say Good Bye For Now.  One of my raffle books from the Write Now Conference.  Very sweet story based in a racially divided town in Texas in the 50's.  Engaging characters, good story line.

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Just finished Say Good Bye For Now.  One of my raffle books from the Write Now Conference.  Very sweet story based in a racially divided town in Texas in the 50's.  Engaging characters, good story line.

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The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright. This incredibly moving novel speaks to the power of literacy. Words can change the world. It also highlights the power of the human spirit. Everyone should read this book.

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The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright. This incredibly moving novel speaks to the power of literacy. Words can change the world. It also highlights the power of the human spirit. Everyone should read this book.

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This book is great and super funny! It is a very easy read and you can get it done quite fast! I totally love this book and is great for wide ranges of audience!

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Reading this because it was recommended to me by the media center specialist

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A sixth grade student that I talk to at school is reading it, so I decided to read it as well. The book taught me lots I did not know about Alaska and the Eskimo and Indian (used in book) people.

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Time travel with a unique perspective.

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Vincent and Theo

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Flowers of the

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by Jason Reynolds
I am so excited that Reynolds is writing some MG novels as well as his YA stand-outs. I was completely invested in Ghost as he processes the violent betrayal of his father and discovers his own strengths as a runner and human being.

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Jason Reynolds' dialogue and characters feel so real to me, and when the characters do things, even things I don't particularly like, as Ghost does at one point in this story, I follow along, knowing Reynolds will take me on an interesting journey.
Ghost and his mother are not well off; his father attempted to shoot them one drunken night, and Ghost retains a certain amount of fear and desire to run from that traumatic night. His mother, meanwhile, is struggling financially, and is studying to be...more

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Jason Reynolds' dialogue and characters feel so real to me, and when the characters do things, even things I don't particularly like, as Ghost does at one point in this story, I follow along, knowing Reynolds will take me on an interesting journey.Ghost and his mother are not well off; his father attempted to shoot them one drunken night, and Ghost retains a certain amount of fear and desire to run from that traumatic night.

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Just started listening to it during my commute yesterday, and am so glad!

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I am SO happy to have this book. So happy that Angie Thomas has provided a piece of literature that tackles the systemic problems leading to the Black Lives Matter movement. So happy that my students have something that can teach them empathy with the racial issues in our society today.

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I just read this again with a seventh grade class that is over 80% male, and it resonated deeply with them. Happy 50th anniversary to an international classic. :)

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Nothing I would ever have picked up on my own. I have learned a lot; it is illuminating- tx for the recommendation Carla Wilson! Love it!!

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A brilliantly fluid hero's story -an intergenerational celebration of culture, home, and family loyalty affirming the beautiful complexity of preserving identity in the face of a new world.

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I wasn't sure I'd like this book but I was very quickly drawn in. This is a book teachers should read; the perspective is unique and the narrator is not someone you will soon forget. I will be putting this on my classroom bookshelf for students to grab as well. As cliched as this sounds, I actually cried at the end.
Hope you enjoy it as well!
Leah Power

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So glad we live in world where these books are being written and read.

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Poiniant for the time we are living in. I think a mature 8th almost 9th grader could process this book.

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Really enjoying this--reminiscent of Terry Pratchett and of Six of Crows without being derivative.

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Steve Sheinkin writes non-fiction that reads like a novel. This gripping story had me in tears.

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The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Hyde Ryan

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The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Hyde Ryan

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Horses, kids, and a mean old lady. Sweet book.

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Loved this

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A timely and important book to help us nurture responsible, responsive, and compassionate readers. This book speaks to my heart.

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Powerful. I want all of my HS students to read it.

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A powerful read about racism, identity, and making change.

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This book pulls the empathy right out of your soul

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A look into the hearts of the characters that pulls the empathy right out of your soul

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An look into the hearts of people that pulls the empathy right out of your soul!

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Night: Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion: 9780374500016: Books - Amazon.ca

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By Danielle Rollins

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By Jennifer Ryan

Described to me as a cross between Downton Abbey and The Guerney Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Very true and enjoyable

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Jennifer Niven writes real issues and talks about Mental Health in an honest and memorable fashion.
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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The Martian & An Astronaut's Guide to Life On aEarth

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The Martian & An Astronaut's Guide to Life On aEarth

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by Patrick Rothfuss
Fantasy tale as retold by an infamous hero.

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My kids who love video games enjoy this book. Also, a great way to educate your students about '70s and '80s nerd pop culture. Steven Spielberg is making this into a movie RIGHT NOW!!!

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Stepping Stones-

A beautiful bilingual picture book detailing the journey of a Syrian family to freedom. Big kids need picture books too!

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This autobiographical book explores the actor's journey from an awkward self-proclaimed nerdy and geeky kid being raised in an unconventional setting to successful comedian, actor, and writer. Told with warmth, depth, and laugh-out-loud candor. Especially popular with fans of The Office.

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by Shyima Hall // This is a POWERFUL memoir of a girl from Egypt (who later moved to America) who was sold by her parents into domestic slavery.

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Fantastic Read!!!

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Monster by William Dean Myers
Boys like this graphic novel.

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Kristen Hannah

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These is My Words: The Story of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner

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These is My Words: The Story of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner

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Trevor Noah is the new host of The Daily Show, so he's all over the kids' social media feed. He tells the story about his life in a place that doesn't want him or even allow him to exist as a mixed-race child.

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Legend

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Boys enjoy this graphic novel by William Dean M

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Autobiographical account of the actor's unconventional upbringing and journey

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A unique, poignant look into a young man's struggle with mental illness. (Novel was inspired by Shusterman's eldest son's own struggle with mental illness.) Winner of 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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AWESOME Book

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This novel is the perfect empathy trip. How does Jeanette forgive and love her parents?  Kids love that this is a true story and it often puts their problems into perspective

I use this in my classroom--the first chapter--when we study narrative. It has a great three-scene arc.
:) Penny

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A girl and her brother escape their abusive mother and go to the countryside in England to avoid the WWII bomb raids in London. Their lives, and the life of their guardian, change forever.

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The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People

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Recommended by a student. Loved it. Currently on netflix.

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Amulet Series: These are my son's new favorite books- He is a reluctant reader and they are interesting adventure graphic novels

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Amulet Series: These are my son's new favorite books- He is a reluctant reader and they are interesting adventure graphic novels

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Compelling characters set during WWII in England. The story is about a girl who has been abused by her mom and how she grows in self-discovery once she escapes her mom's control. It is a book that shows the power of caring or NOT caring for others. It gets a little slow and repetitive in the middle.  It is ok for 6th grade, but not my highest recommendation.

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Amazing book of courage, determination, and friendship in 1240 France

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Great read as to the importance of social and personal interaction. As a teacher, this book solidifies the why behind book clubs and students having genuine conversations.

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Not new, but a love story set in bthe backdrop of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII.

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This book tells the story of two sisters who play very different roles in the French resistance during WWII. It sheds light on a side of the war that many people may not have heard about in a beautifully written tale that's full of love, loss, and life's unexpected turns.

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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice

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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice

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Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as "The Thunderbolt Kid."

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From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.

Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century-1951-in the middle of the United States-Des Moines, Iowa-in the middle of the largest generation in American history-the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)-in his head-as "The Thunderbolt Kid."

Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality-a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson's earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends.

Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.

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