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My favorite book to read aloud is Piggy and Elephant books by Mo Willems. My very favorite is "I'm Invited to a Party!" When my son Oliver was around one, I began reading him these stories. I would use a high pitched voice for piggy and a lower, slower voice for elephant. When he began to talk, he would imitate those voices. When he began to read, he asked if he could be "elephant" and I would be "piggy." We would take turns reading our parts and having a great laugh at the end of each one.

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I remember when my love for reading first developed. I was in third grade and my teacher read us "Matilda" by Roald Dahl. She followed that up with a few other Roald Dahl books and I began to search up and check out every Roald Dahl book I could get my hands on. The books are so silly, imaginative, and just completely out there. I was hooked. My favorite Roald Dahl book of all time is "James and the Giant Peach."

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I grew up in foster care. I was adopted at the age of 14. My family connection resides with Gilly in "The Great Gilly Hopkins because she is shuffled to many different foster homes such as I was. Also, Gilly is very angry in the book and by the age of 11, I was very angry for having to grow up in different homes and feeling like I didn't fit in anywhere. I never tried to run away from any of the foster homes, but I contemplated it many times.

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Even though it isn't real, I would love to visit the world of Harry Potter. Especially Hogwarts Castle which is so vividly described in the first Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," by J.K. Rowling. Moving staircases, pictures that talk, hidden rooms, creepy forests with creatures you could never imagine, floating candles, etc. What a magical and interesting place when it almost seems like you would see something new almost every day.

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The Most Powerful/Incredible Children's/YA book I have read...

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The Most Powerful/Incredible Children's/YA book I have read...

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When I was in sixth grade, we read the book, "The Watson's Go to Birmingham." This book opened my eyes to racism and took me out of my white privileged shoes for a while into what it meant to be a Black American growing up in the 60's. I grew up in mostly white neighborhoods with other white kids. We had very few minority students in our school. This book had a lasting impression on me and helped shape my beliefs around fighting racism and being empathetic to others.

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A Book I Love that Would Not Fit Anywhere Else...

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A Book I Love that Would Not Fit Anywhere Else...

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In fourth grade I became obsessed with the book, "A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeline L'Engle. I related to the main character Meg and always having to take care of younger siblings. I was book smart like she is and was fascinated with science and curious about the world and what could be possible. The first time I read the book I did not fully understand it, so I read it again. Then I went on to read the sequels. My teacher would often get onto me because she would always catch me reading instead of doing my work.

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Character's I would Most Like to Spend Time With...

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There are many fascinating characters I would like to spend time with, Harry Potter and his crew, Tris and Four from Divergent, The Hobbits from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Meg from, "A Wrinkle in Time," but the character I would most like to spend time with would be Max from "Where the Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak. I would love to party in the jungle and meet fun, loveable monsters, and explore a place I had never seen or been before. Maybe Max and I could explore a place in my dreams, as I ave very imaginative vivid dreams too.

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Willems, M. (2007)I am Invited to a Party! Hyperion Books.

Dahl, R. (1988). Matilda. Jonathan Cape.

Rowling, J.K. (1997). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Bloomsbury(UK).

Curtis, C. (1995). The Watson's Go to Birmingham. Delacorte Press.

Sendak, M. (1963). Where the Wild Things Are. Harper and Row.

Peterson, K. (1978). The Great Gilly Hopkins. Thomas Y. Crowell Co.

L'Engle, M. (1962). A Wrinkle in Time. Ariel Books.