https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy A blog filled with great reads en-us 2019-06-03 21:07:33 UTC 2024-11-21 09:57:37 UTC hello@padlet.com awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365428835 My favorite book to read when I was younger was Junie B. Jones by Barbra Park. The first book of this series was published in 1992. Junie B. Jones is in kindergarten in the first book. She makes it known that her name is "Junie B. Jones.The B stands for Beatrice...". After reading that page, I knew that I was going to love it. Junie B. Jones is a fictional character who is extremely sassy. This is something that I had in common with her and still do today. My favorite book was Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime and BOO.. and I MEAN It.

]]> 2019-06-03 22:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365428835 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365433492 A Caldecott Award winning book was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak in 1964. A young boy named Max left his home and went to where the wild things lived. The animals let Max become their leader. His goal was to create a place for everyone to be happy. As he continues to be the leader, Max realizes that being king is harder work than he thought that it would be. As time passed he noticed that there was something missing. I never read this book as a young child. This was my first time reading it. I believe the lesson this book is trying to teach is to never give up, just keep pushing even when times get hard. ]]> 2019-06-03 22:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365433492 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365436842 The Mortal instruments series by Cassandra Clare was published in 2014. This series is about a girl who's mother blocked the shadow world from her own mind. When her mom goes missing she finds out just what the shadow world is. This world is filled with vampires, werewolves, fairies, demons, angels, and warlocks. There are special type of people called nephilim. This group kills demons and protects the humans. The young girl finds out that she is a nephilim and that is where her journey begins. There are many, many fights in this book, but there is also romance. 

]]> 2019-06-03 23:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365436842 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365438119 The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. The story of Harry Potter is about the boy who survived death. Harry's parents were killed by Lord Voldemort and when Voldemort tried to kill Harry it failed. Harry lived with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. On his 11th birthday he got his Hogwarts letter. Hogwarts is a school for witchcraft and wizardry. At the school, he learns about magic, creatures, potions, etc. However, each school year there is always an accident that Harry seems to be involved in and later solves. All the events eventually lead to one final battle which is against Voldemort himself. One of them has to win. Will it be the dark wizard or the good wizard?

]]> 2019-06-03 23:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365438119 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365439537 Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead is just how it sounds. It is literally a school for vampires and their guardians. There are two girls. Lissa is a vampire and Rose is a Dhampir (guardians). The two have a psychic bond that they can't explain. They can read each others mind, one can see what the other sees. Rose is training to protect and defeat strigoi (evil vampires). While they are at the academy, strigoi's attack the school and everyone must fight. All the while Rose is falling in love with another guardian named Dimitri. Just after they won a battle, they are faced with more fights to protect the ones they love. 

]]> 2019-06-03 23:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365439537 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365450126 Fantasy and Imagination go hand in hand. These themes create amazing books for children. The theme that I chose was "fantasy". I tend to lean towards fantasy fiction the most. I put three books that represent my theme. Each of these books have different stories, but similar in fantasy ways. ]]> 2019-06-04 00:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/365450126 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574574 Fables are short-stories with animals who play a character role involving personification. Usually there is a lesson or moral to the story. The three fables that I picked for my theme are widely known. Each of these fables are an adaption of the original story, The Three Little Pigs.]]> 2019-06-09 17:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574574 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574700 Deloris Jordan and Roslyn Jordan are the authors of Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream. A young Michael Jordan played in a basketball game every Saturday with his brothers at the court. His team could never win against the tall boy named Mark. Michael's mom told him that if he put salt in his shoes and prayed everyday he would grow taller in order to win the game. That is just what Michael did. Four months went by and he had not grown at all. His dad told him that it wasn't about being tall, it was about his determination and practice. So Michael went to the game and beat Mark with the winning shot. ]]> 2019-06-09 17:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574700 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574919 The Rough- Face Girl written by Rafe Martin is about whoever can see the invisible man will marry him. There were three sisters and two of them made their other sister fix the fire and she had burns/scars all over her body. The two mean sisters then went to marry the invisible man, but before they could his sister asked them questions about him and they answered wrong. The rough-faced girl went in hopes to marry him as well . Just like before, his sister asked her questions and she had answered them correctly. The sister told the girl to bathe and when she did, her burns and scars went away. In the end, the invisible man and the rough-faced girl got married.]]> 2019-06-09 17:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366574919 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575065 The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf by Mark Teague is about three little pigs who built different types of homes. One house was made out of straw, the other out of sticks, and lastly, brick. One day, a wolf was extremely hungry and all of the restaurants were closed. So, he went to each pigs house. He blew the straw and stick houses down. When the wolf came to the brick house, he tried and tried to blow it down, but he couldn't. The pigs gave him food and let him stay in the house with them. The wolf was never bad again.    ]]> 2019-06-09 17:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575065 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575340 The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka is what the wolf believes is the TRUE story of what really happened with the three little pigs. A wolf was making a cake for his granny's birthday, but he ran out of sugar. The wolf went to his neighbor's house, which was made of straw. He sneezed and accidentally blew the house down. He went to the second house, which was made of sticks, and he sneezed again and the house fell down. The pigs in both houses died and  he couldn't let a meal go to waste, so he ate the pigs. Finally, he went to the third house and the pig wouldn't give him sugar. When the wolf sneezed the house did not fall. The pig was rude about the wolf's granny and the wolf got upset and made a scene. The cops arrested the so called, "Big Bad Wolf", for killing two pigs all for a cup of sugar.]]> 2019-06-09 17:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575340 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575426 The Three Little Javelinas is written by Susan Lowell. There are three javelinas that went their separate ways. One javelina built a tumbleweed house. The second, built a saguaro rib house, and the third built her house out of adobe. The villain in this story was a coyote. He was hungry and went to blow the tumbleweed and the saguaro rib house down. The two javelinas that lived there survived somehow and went to their sisters adobe house. The coyote tried to blow the house down, but it didn't work. So, the coyote climbed through the stove pipe. The three javelinas lit a fire in the stove pipe and burnt coyote. The coyote finally left the adobe house in a poof of a smoke. He was never heard from again. ]]> 2019-06-09 17:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/366575426 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926471 Mystery books are such a good genre for children to read. It helps their mind grow, because they have to ask themselves the questions "why", "where", "who" and so on. In addition to this, mystery books are also fun for the kids to read. I chose three different types of mysteries to represent my theme. ]]> 2019-06-17 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926471 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926578 The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt is about crayons writing letters to Duncan. The crayons tell Duncan their problems. Some of the crayons feel overused, empty, unused, and two of them are fighting. At the very end of the story, Duncan finds a way to make all of the crayons happy. ]]> 2019-06-17 14:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926578 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926676 Little Roja Riding Hood written by Susan Middleton Elya is about a young girl who takes her sick grandma soup. As she is on her way to her grandma's house, a wolf tells her to pick flowers. The wolf then steals her hood and pretends to be the little girl. Just as the wolf was about to eat the grandma, the girl puts a stop to the wolf.]]> 2019-06-17 14:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367926676 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933457 Miss Nelson is Missing! is written by James Marshall. Miss Nelson's students are very misbehaved and rude. So, Miss Nelson has an idea to get her students to behave right. She goes "missing" and her students get a new teacher who they consider a "witch". The new teacher is extremely strict and even a little mean. The kids are forced to behave better. As the days go on the students search for Miss Nelson, but they couldn't find her. Finally, Miss Nelson is back at class and the children are so thankful and behave much better than before.]]> 2019-06-17 14:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933457 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933476 7 ate 9: The Untold Story by Tara Lazar is about how the letter "I" tries to solve the case " 7 ate 9". Number 6 was the one who came to "I" so upset and afraid that he was next. So "I" went around and asked everyone what happened. "I" solves the case by figuring out that 9 just flipped over and became 6, because 7 gets too much attention. ]]> 2019-06-17 14:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933476 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933499 The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings written by Richard Byrne is about the chalk's flowers keep getting stolen. Sergeant blue hops on the immediately. He brings in suspects and finds the culprit. It is an eraser! As he was about to put him in jail, the eraser got away. After Sergeant and the chalks chase him, they figured out why the eraser was stealing their artwork. Eraser did this so that the chalks could keep drawing. In the end, they chase eraser for fun.]]> 2019-06-17 14:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/367933499 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034068 The theme that I chose to do is rhymes. I immediately thought who better to do than of Dr. Seuss. His books are very unique, but can help the kids understand rhymes.  ]]> 2019-06-25 01:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034068 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034136 Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad is written by Ellen Levine. Henry Brown was a slave who was torn away from his family. After his master died, he went to the master's son. Henry's new master would beat the slaves if they did anything wrong. As the days passed, Henry found love and married. He got to live with his wife and two kids. Eventually, his wives master ran out of money and sold his family in the slave market. Henry mails himself to Pennsylvania to escape slavery. He makes it to Pennsylvania and receives his freedom. ]]> 2019-06-25 01:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034136 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034174 Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of The Little Horse Who Became A Hero by Patricia McCormick is about how a race horse became a Marine. The men during the Korea War needed help carrying the ammunition and they stumbled upon this horse. So, they trained her for battle. The men gave her treats as a reward. When battle came, Pvt. Reckless was prepared. She got hurt during the last battle that ended in a cease-fire. Pvt. Reckless was taken back to the U.S and received two Purple Hearts and the rank of Sergeant. So far she is the only animal to have official military rank.  ]]> 2019-06-25 01:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369034174 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035055 Great Day for Up is written by Dr. Seuss. The word "UP" is repeated throughout the book. Each time the word is used the word means something different. For example, it means "get up", "up the elevator" etc. All of the animals, people, balloons, planes, balls, and kites are getting up for the day except the little boy who stays in bed. ]]> 2019-06-25 02:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035055 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035056 The Foot Book written by Dr. Seuss is about rhymes and feet. It talks about different kinds of feet from left to right and to sick feet. ]]> 2019-06-25 02:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035056 awoolardASU https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035057 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss is about Sam-I-Am trying to get the main character to eat green eggs and ham. Sam-I-Am gives the character different locations and animals to try the eggs and ham. In the end, the character gives in and eats the green eggs and ham and likes the food.]]> 2019-06-25 02:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awoolardASU/kwrmxjct2rsy/wish/369035057