Whew! Book Fair season is over! We had a fantastic turnout for our fair, but after the cut in profit margins, we only made a little over $1,000. We took in nearly $5,000 last week! Can you believe it? To make a long story short, Scholastic has cut back and so we reap the negative benefits.
Soon, we'll have lots of new books for our library! Mr. Davis generously purchased books as well...$789 worth! Wow! Kids, you should thank him.
After trying to work my way through The Poisonwood Bible, I abandoned it to begin again later. I wanted to read My Thirteenth Winter, a memoir for teens who struggle with math. The author has a math disability much like dyslexia and explains in detail her inability to understand mathematical concepts. Would be a great book for math teachers and those students who struggle in math to read. I was drawn to the book because I never took to math easily in school.
I am currently reading Knit the Season: a Friday Night Knitting Club book. I'm loving it because it's all about Christmas in New York...a place I've never been, but the author describes the scenery so well that I feel like I have!
Many have requested a book list for Christmas. I've no time to create an extensive list of my personal favs, so I'll just list some that are popular right now:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4: The Ugly Truth
The Red Pyramid
The Heroes of Olympus, Book One; The Lost Hero
The Necromancer Book 4 of The Alchemyst series
The 39 Clues series
*Want to make your tween happy? Take them to the bookstore and let them pick out their own! You wouldn't believe how many students have never been to buy their own book before. What a treat that would be!
Happy Reading! and Merry Christmas!
RC
