Ok..so I just finished John Grisham’s second book for kids, Theodore Boone:  The Abduction.  I started this book with great hopes it would be better than the first, and it was, a little.  This experiment into kidlit Grisham is conducting is interesting.  He is not nearly as good at it as Mr. Patterson – yet Read More...

The sixth title in the ever-popular  Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise has just been announced by the author and his publisher, Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS.  This new book will be released in November, 2011, just in time for the holidays and winter.  The storyline of Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read More...

The research on the importance of summer reading is clear:  Your child can lose up to 3 months of reading progress if they don’t continuing reading throughout the summer.*  As a teacher, I saw it happen year after year.  Fluent readers who don’t read during the summer, re-enter school in the fall at the same Read More...

The research on the importance of summer reading is clear:  Your child can lose up to 3 months of reading progress if they don’t continuing reading throughout the summer.*  As a teacher, I saw it happen year after year.  Fluent readers who don’t read during the summer, re-enter school in the fall at the same Read More...

The research on the importance of summer reading is clear:  Your child can lose up to 3 months of reading progress if they don’t continue reading throughout the summer.*  As a teacher, I saw it happen year after year.  Fluent readers who don’t read during the summer, re-enter school in the fall at the same Read More...

The research on the importance of summer reading is clear:  Your child can lose up to 3 months of reading progress if they don’t continue reading throughout the summer.*  As a teacher, I saw it happen year after year.  Fluent readers who don’t read during the summer, re-enter school in the fall at the same Read More...

The research on the importance of summer reading is clear:  Your child can lose up to 3 months of reading progress if they don’t continue reading throughout the summer.*  As a teacher, I saw it happen year after year.  Fluent readers who don’t read during the summer, re-enter school in the fall at the same Read More...