Library reading

For the first rotation of class with students I covered procedures and read The Shelf Elf.

I read it 31 times. That should explain so much! I learned a lot from this! I will never read the same book to every class again!!!!!(I should put 31 exclamation points:)

LOST IN THE LIBRARY!

With school starting and the new dream job of librarian(while still finishing master's work) I have spent more time lost in the library instead of a book.

BUT  that is finally changing!!! I am working on my required reading for my YALIT class so have been busy reading again.

I started with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. I will admit...I never have read this book. It was really good but I am not sure about the reading interest level. We have it in our library but I think it should be targeted for sixth graders instead.

I also reread the Outsiders by SE Hinton. I remember reading this in highschool and I did not like it then. I'm still not nuts about it....great writing, just not my thing. I do remember being inspired by the writer--she was in high school when she wrote this!

I have also reread Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and Mr. Tucket written by Paulsen as well. This must have been a boy weekend! I read White Water by JP Peterson too. I have enjoyed my weekend of boy reads.

I guess that makes next weekend a girl time---Ella Enchanted, Tuck Everlasting, and Catherine Called Birdy!

I have 16 of these to do so I will be busy. I am still not nuts about many of the themes of YA lit but I will be getting plenty of children's reading in the library classes!!!

ALSO--all that Sequoyah reading has really paid off in my Advanced Children's Lit!
Go read something--Kathy