Sheila at  Book Journey Jen and Kellee at  Teach Mentor Textt Currently Reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor  by Yoko Og...

 2013 Mock Printz I rolled out Mock Printz at my school this week. So far 45 kids have signed up. Obviously, I need to purchase more co...

Purple Mountain Ash in the background and a Japanese Willow in the foreground. Fall has arrived to our backyard. Weather:   Cold and rai...

"On the night of October 12, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a bar...

Dear Maggie,   I want to thank you for two things, maybe three. First, thanks to Raven Boys I got my reading mojo back! It has been ...

Written in free verse The Good Braider is the story of Viola and her family's journey from war-torn Sudan, through Cairo, finally end...

Here is the Mock Printz list of titles for the Bethel School District.  It is a long list and none of the contributors to this list have...

Top Ten YA Books Published in 2012 that I've read so far... 1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green....hands down this is my favorite...

Weather:   Sunny and warm.  Simply beautiful day. We are having an amazing Fall in the Pacific NW. The evenings are cool but after the chi...

A few weeks ago the Top Ten Tuesday topic was unfinished series. It was an easy topic since I am more likely to NOT finish a series than th...