https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5 Made with reading magic en-us 2018-09-17 14:18:51 UTC 2025-11-13 00:41:58 UTC hello@padlet.com 25girarda2 https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5/wish/283446226 Class 507 is the worst class Ms. Bryce has ever taught. And she would know -- she's been teaching forever. They are so terrible that when a science experiment goes disastrously wrong (again), Ms. Bryce has had it and quits in the middle of the lesson. But through a mix-up, the school office never finds out. Which means ... Class 507 is teacher-free!]]> 2018-09-19 14:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5/wish/283446226 25girarda2 https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5/wish/296513276  Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful and very awkward hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear (including some things she wasn't intended to hear), but it also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become "El Deafo, Listener for All." 

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The great grey beast February” has Harvey Swick in its cold clutches as he desperately wishes for a way out of boredom. In answer to his plea, a stranger named Rictus flies in from the rain and extends an invitation to visit “a place where the days are always sunny. . .and the nights are full of wonders.” Rictus returns in a week to guide Harvey crosstown and through a barrier of mist to the Holiday House. There Harvey meets two other children, Wendell and Lulu, and Mrs. Griffin, who cooks wonderful treats for the children to eat whenever they want. Harvey finds the House and grounds a marvel where morning is springtime, afternoon is summer, evening brings fall, and every night is christmas. He is given whatever he wants, including favorite toys lost long ago and restored by the magical house. But not all is sunshine and beauty; Harvey discovers a cold, slimy pond full of huge pale fish that no one will explain. The hints of evil purpose accumulate, and after Harvey witnesses the fishy transformation of Lulu before she dives into the pool, he wants to leave Holiday House.Harvey and Wendell barely escape an attack by the flying monster, Carna, who tried to keep them from crossing the barrier. Back in town, Harvey finds things changed, and his parents incredibly aged. For each day he spent at Holiday House, a year passed in the outside world. Convinced that the House, and its owner, Mr. Hood, are stealing the souls of the children lured inside, and wanting his lost years with his parents back, Harvey takes Wendell back to confront their host.

]]> 2018-10-31 15:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5/wish/299018832 25girarda2 https://padlet.com/25girarda2/yd4mdquiwlv5/wish/310448003 Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends. But they couldn’t help it – Hazel and Jack fit, in that way you only read about in books. And they didn’t fit anywhere else.

And then, one day, it was over. Jack just stopped talking to Hazel. And while her mom tried to tell her that this sometimes happens to boys and girls at this age, Hazel had read enough stories to know that it’s never that simple. And it turns out, she was right. Jack’s heart had been frozen, and he was taken into the woods by a woman dressed in white to live in a palace made of ice. Now, it’s up to Hazel to venture into the woods after him. Hazel finds, however, that these woods are nothing like what she’s read about, and the Jack that Hazel went in to save isn’t the same Jack that will emerge. Or even the same Hazel.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” Breadcrumbs is a story of the struggle to hold on, and the things we leave behind.

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