It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
{Celebrating the books we’ve read in the past week
&
the titles we are currently reading.}
This meme is originated by Jen and Kellee at TeachMentorTexts. Thanks!
I started Booked on Friday night and finished it Sunday morning. It was delightful and hard to stop. Alexander has mastered the art of writing in verse and puts his skills to good use here.
This time instead of basketball (The Crossover), Alexander uses soccer as the vehicle for the story. This time, conflict is about the relationship problems between his mom and and how they affect Nick Hall. Yes, there is a girl. But there certainly isn’t as much soccer in this book as there was basketball in the other. Perhaps Alexander doesn’t have as much experience or feel for this sport—just a guess. Clearly, Nick loves soccer, but the playing of it seems to take a back seat to the rest of the story.
I appreciate how Alexander uses a story about a kid who hates to learn the
new words his dad is teaching him… to TEACH US new and fun vocabulary. How else would we know: sweven, farrow, onomatophobia… and much more. There are also a bunch of books mentioned, many of them novels in verse. O
ne of my favorites is Out of the Dust. Another is All the Broken Pieces. Watsons Go To Birmingham also gets mentioned.
If you liked The Crossover, you owe it to yourself to check out Booked.
EtkinSHMS Instagram posts this past week?
PERIOD 1&2 READ 7 BOOKS THIS PAST WEEK.
PERIOD 5&6 READ 12 BOOKS THIS PAST WEEK.
For every parent who leaves a comment on TODAY’S POST with what YOU’RE reading, I’ll give your child a BUSTED ticket…
Tap the book!
{Eat the Book} 