Wow-oh-wow!! It's been an exciting week telling kids about the news that Flora & Ulysses won the Newbery Award. Our students have l...

Kids always amaze me. They come to discussions full of energy and enthusiasm, with fresh eyes. Our final Mock Newbery discussion was rich, t...

Our students noted three books for their character development: Counting by 7s , The Real Boy and Jinx . The characters in each of these bo...

Our Mock Newbery list stretched readers to try out books they may not have been drawn to initially. Two historical fiction books particularl...

We really liked the format of our Mock Newbery book club this year. Each student committed to reading five books from our list of ten books,...

You know what's one of the best things? Listening to a kid talk about how excited she is reading a book, and then watching three others ...