Choosing Reading Titles for Elementary School Students
This week I’m happy to welcome my guest Mary Bauer from The Artistry of Education. Although I’m not currently teaching, I enjoy following MaryR...
Tag: young adult
What Makes a Great Character: Katniss Everdeen
I’m a people person. I enjoy striking up a conversation with a shopper behind me at the Walmart check-out. Or swapping fun and useful tweets with people...
Which is better: The book or the movie?
With the all of the excitement over the pending release of The Hunger Games movie, I want to ask you all, which do you usually like better, the book or the movi...
The Fault in Our Stars: Insightful Teens with Impressive Vocabulary
I’d seen positive reviews about John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in the blogosphere, so when I spotted it on display in the YA (young adult) section of our l...
Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
I didn’t know we had an “Ambassador for Young People’s Literature” until I heard an NPR interview with Walter Dean Myers earlier this month. His term began Jan...
Who Should Read The Hunger Games?
Everybody is talking about Suzanne Collins’ young adult novel, The Hunger Games, but I have to admit, when I first heard the premise of the book, I didn’t...