https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t Our Classroom Library en-us 2016-10-01 19:37:25 UTC 2025-10-25 15:00:59 UTC hello@padlet.com samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127693897 Susan Beth Pfeffer.

]]> 2016-10-01 19:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127693897 samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127693988 Jerry Spinelli.
From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, hallways hum “Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. Until they are not. Leo urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her - normal.]]> 2016-10-01 19:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127693988 samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694037 Sharon M. Draper
After a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, Andy doesn't know if he can go on. He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon M. Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy.]]> 2016-10-01 19:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694037 samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694068 Christopher Paul Curtis.
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression. Once again Christopher Paul Curtis, author of the award-winning novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, takes readers on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey.]]> 2016-10-01 19:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694068 samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694084 JoJo Moyes.
In 1916, French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything - her family, reputation and life—in the hope of seeing her true love one last time.

Nearly a century later and Sophie's portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. Its beauty speaks of their short life together, but when the painting's dark and passion-torn history is revealed, Liv discovers that the first spark of love she has felt since she lost him is threatened...]]> 2016-10-01 19:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694084 samantha_speakes https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694166 Tim O'Brien.
The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. ]]> 2016-10-01 19:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_speakes/igkt4s22wt4t/wish/127694166