Hi everyone, this week’s booklist will give you a delightful selection of reads featuring five awesome teachers. I call them awesome because I’ve always wished I had had them when I was growing up. I know, it would be impossible as these are characters in books, but you never know if they were inspired by actual teachers. Shall we delve inside to find out…
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Hi everyone, welcome to the second last month of the year!! Boy has the year flown by! As the title above suggests, I will be celebrating teachers and education this month. There is a reason for this particular topic, and to find it out you will have to press the button below…
Continue reading “Let’s celebrate teachers and education this November”Hi everyone, welcome to the month of October. We have not long to go until Christmas, and summer is not too far away for us here in New Zealand. That should have brought a smile to most of you who call Auckland home!! So, in ensuring you keep smiling, even those who are facing autumn or fall, here are five tween titles that kept me smiling and laughing, sometimes even out in public!!
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Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the build up of suspense I’m planning for you this month of August. Well, as the title reads, this week’s post is a short booklist of my Top Five Tween Time-Slip reads to date!! If you want to find out which titles made the final list, go one, press the button below…
Continue reading “My Top Five Time-Slip Tales for Tweens”Hi everyone, do you know of anyone heroic who has overcome some form of illness as a child? You do?? Well, this next post has a booklist of a selection of tween heroes who have done just that!! Are you keen to find out more about them? Well, you know the drill…
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Hi everyone, this week I’ll be discussing my thoughts on classic children’s stories and how important – or not – they are for a young tween growing up now. I’ve had many conversations with eager parents who come looking for titles such as The Secret Garden or Treasure Island which they insist their seven-year-old has to read over the summer holidays!! Yes, the summer holidays!! So, if you’re a teacher or eager parent, and would like to see my side of the discussion, press below…
Continue reading “My take on children’s classics”Hi everyone, welcome to this first week’s review post for June!! The tween title I’ve got lined up for you this week is one I read some time ago that packed a punch and a half!! Fans of Auggie Pullman from Wonder will find a kindred spirit in our protagonist, Perry T. Cook. Are you ready to meet him??
Continue reading “All rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor”Hi everyone, this first post is a review of a book I found quite recently. Now, even though I was born in the 1970’s, I did grow up hearing music from the previous two decades or so. So when I found this awesome story featuring the music from the sensational Beatles I was intrigued. If you feel the same way, why not press below to find out about this read…
Continue reading “She loves you by Ann Hood”Hi friends, here is my last post for April. Winter is not too far along now here in Auckland. I hope you enjoyed last week’s personal post about my life in Zambia during my childhood. This last post is a review about a book I had heard about but didn’t read until recently. This biographical junior read is about an actual young African teenager who was inspired to do more for his family and community.
Continue reading “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba”Hi everyone, this week I’m featuring a short selection of tween reads that touch on an event that has shaped our world in the last few decades and its impact on the young people today, especially those who identify as Muslims. I’m talking about the events that transpired on that fateful day on September 11th, 2001. Some of the titles I have selected for this week talk about the lives of Muslim tweens during that time…
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Miss Mahee's Library of Reads 