It' Monday, what are you reading?

Skipped last week, but back in for this week....I'm going to share the last two picture books I read to my class......next week I'll have some chapter books, but I need to finish reading them....

We had a book fair this past week, always have one during parent conferences... It was a Buy One, Get One Free.....Good deal!  So I bought a book for each of my students!  They picked them out, they had to be less than $6 and it had to be a narrative book....check them out

They were very excited!  I bought a Superhero Manual to read to them, plus another picture book and a chapter book, but they are in my car at the moment...so don't remember the titles....

This is a book I bought last year at the book fair...(I try to buy books every year to help support) It's a fun book...the main character wants quiet, so he is going to make a wordless book...however his two friends haven't quite caught on to the concept yet.....It's a good book for discussing frustrations and the skill of listening....

and one of my favorite books...

I LOVE Molly Lou Melon!  There is a sequel called, Have Fun Molly Lou Melon.  I haven't read that one to my class yet.  Molly Lou is a very unique little girl, but she is supported by a grandma who gives her wise advice.  It's great for talking about differences and accepting them in each other...Molly Lou reminds me of Katie from The Recess Queen, which is another favorite.  Although that one is more centered on bullying....

I am trying to read that second knit book: A Knit Before Dying by Sadie Hartwell

But with sentences like this one, sometimes it's a slog to get through:

"Not that there had been any secret about that--the moving truck parked on Main Street had been as conspicuous as a rhinoceros at a tea party, even in Dorset Fall's moribund downtown, and it had been clearly visible from the general store, where most Dorset Fall-its congregated at some point or another."
That's a 53 word sentence!!!! 
And she says the same thing twice...all of Dorset Falls saw the moving truck.....And again I'm thrown off by the whole "she's from New York and this is a small town, that is not NYC"  The author mentions MANY times that the main character is from New York....so again, I want to like it...and I'm reading the second book, but I doubt I'll read any other things she might write.... 

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