 
******** Friday July 9 - add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion ******** An educator's creative TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD lesson (fab guest post!) ******** Friday July 23 - add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion ******** Friday July 30 at 8:30 pm (EST) - Join @CapriciousReadr and @TooFondOfBooks as we view the film adaptation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and live-tweet our reactions (hashtag #TKAM). Reserve your Netflix/library copy today! ********* 
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A: Penguin Books celebrating the 75th anniversary of the imprint! That’s right, today, July 30, marks 75 years since the launch of Penguin Books – and they’re celebrating in several very big ways: The Penguin Mobile is touring with Penguin authors. They ride in style in this special Mini Cooper in Penguin orange, emblazoned with the Penguin [...] National Geographic Kids Almanac 2011 Back-of-the-book blurb: In true National Geographic Kids magazine style, this is a book to excite kids about their planet: its fun-filled pages are packed with everything from how to decode your dreams to the excitement of underwater pumpkin [...] Talking to Girls about Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield Back-of-the-book blurb: Growing up in the eighties, you were surrounded by mysteries. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies, the era of big [...] Did you enter the giveaway for Lynne Griffin’s recently published Sea Escape AND her debut novel, Life Without Summer? Pop over to this post on my Giveaways page, to see if you’re the winner! Two weeks ago I wrote about afavorite kitchen product, the Reynolds Handi-Vac, which allows me to easily seal blanched produce, cubes of pesto, and other bounty from our weekly CSA allotment. I froze the freshness of the harvest, and we were able to defrost and enjoy them later in the fall and winter. When I discovered that Reynolds [...] This readalong post is FULL OF SPOILERS! Skip right past it if you haven’t read the book! But, before you go … I want to make sure you’ve read this great guest post from earlier in the week, in which an educator shares her approach to getting her students into the minds of the TKAM characters. ** [...] They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and, although my photography skills are not the finest, I’m happy to share several photos of “the McNally Jackson experience” Beth Fish and I had back in May. We had mapped out a number of indie bookstores that we wanted to visit during our unscheduled time at [...] The Language of Trees by Ilie Ruby Back-of-the-book blurb: Echo O’Connell returns home to Canandaigua, to confront spirits, both living and not, and to share a secret with her first love, Grant Shongo—a secret that will forever change the lives of many people in the town and put to [...] When I first posted about the 50th anniversary celebration for Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, I received many positive responses from people who had read the book (some recently, some ages ago) and had felt a great impact. One blogging friend, Constance at Perfect Retort, told me that her niece’s 7th Grade English class recently completed a [...] |
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