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5 | Interesting Information | This book is a great resource, if you want to learn more about the era and history surrounding The Great Gatsby. This book has resources and research that will help you to understand more about the influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald, including his family and life at the time. I'm an English teacher who is head of my d... | [] | 1643130099 | 1643130099 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,567,532,674,119 | 0 | false |
3 | Journey Through Graduate Degrees | Francisco Jimenez shares his experiences in graduate school, working to a PhD in Spanish Literature. This is meant to be the fourth installment in his series, but this is the only one I've read. I'm not sure if the other books would help provide more context for how amazing it is that he is in graduate school, but yo... | [] | 0547632304 | 0547632304 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,567,187,922,438 | 0 | false |
5 | Too Funny--Wish it Could Be Performed | Kids are often intimidated to read Shakespeare, but I sometimes find that once they know the story, the language comes secondary. I like Shakespeare, but as an English teacher, I have to really make him accessible for my students. This retelling of "Mean Girls" using iambic pentameter and Elizabethan language is hila... | [] | 1683691172 | 1683691172 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,566,408,970,246 | 0 | false |
4 | You Think You Can Predict It... | At first, I wasn't sure that I would like this book. I've been reading a lot of contemporary YA to share with my high school English classes and so I picked this one up. The way it is set up, you get the initial idea that it's about an upset, depressed, young girl who is in a relationship with some guy that you don't... | [] | 1624147119 | 1624147119 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,566,321,814,899 | 0 | false |
5 | McDowell is the Best! | I'm a 19 year, veteran teacher, but I'm ALWAYS looking for ways to make my teaching more effective and engaging. McDowell really helps all teachers to figure out how to tell what a student is actually learning and how to make that tie to them. I appreciate his know-how and his ability to speak to active teachers so w... | [] | 1544337159 | 1544337159 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,566,319,981,723 | 0 | true |
4 | Fun YA Matchmaking & School Pressure | Melissa de la Cruz somehow manages to write YA fiction that skips from topic to topic, from character to character, from issue to issue. Honestly, how does she write such varied stories? In her newest novel, we follow Ji-su, who is sent to live in San Francisco for her senior year, in the hopes that she can get on tr... | [] | 1335541543 | 1335541543 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,565,055,850,718 | 0 | false |
5 | Nice Resource for a Department | I picked this resource up, as I work with a lot of new teachers and student-teachers. Often times, as we all enter the field, we find ourselves juggling so many things--management, organization, grading, administration, etc., that creativity can be a struggle. Sometimes you just need to see more of a vision of how a ... | [] | 1544330529 | 1544330529 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,564,774,999,467 | 0 | false |
3 | Good Initial Starting Place--More Nuanced Across Curriculum Though... | Most schools are going (or are long gone) down the path of data-driven instruction. The main theory is that within collaborative groups, being able to zero in on the skills students have mastered or not, then help the team to teach to specific learning targets.<br /><br />I have long been on collaborative teams that h... | [] | 1506390927 | 1506390927 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,564,774,476,290 | 0 | false |
2 | Graphic Memoir | This graphic novel is essentially the memories of the author, with vignettes from their life. Some of the vignettes are stories and graphics she drew back in high school, while others are just memories from her school years and college. Several of them were really funny and I thought, even insightful. One of them is... | [] | 1328972445 | 1328972445 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,564,105,888,110 | 0 | false |
4 | Intriguing Look at Internment Camps in the U.S. | Having read Hesse's first novel, Girl in a Blue Coat, I was really eager to read this newest piece of historical fiction. Based on two main characters, Haruko and Margot, we gain an inside view of one of our country's largest internment camps during WWII, Crystal City. Haruko's family are Japanese-American, with a so... | [] | 0316316695 | 0316316695 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,564,105,388,092 | 0 | false |
5 | How to Question, Listen, Empathize, Collaborate, and LEARN TOGETHER | Don't let the cover trick you here. This is not a book about how to have good discussions. In DOES help you do that, but it shows you how to let the students lead in the classroom. Essentially, by building relationships of trust with your students, you then show them you care about their ideas and questions. From t... | [] | 1506391648 | 1506391648 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,563,769,301,493 | 1 | false |
5 | A Surprise Thriller | Where do you even start with this novel? I went into it with certain predictions and expectations, which were all thrown out the window immediately, reminding me of stories like Gone Girl, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The Reader. Equal-seeming parts thriller and literary fiction, we get the idea that this is a commen... | [] | 1984823019 | 1984823019 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,563,508,880,570 | 0 | false |
4 | The Real Folks Behind the Comics | This is a cute, Romeo and Juliet type rom-com centered in the world of comics. To some degree, I felt like I'd wandered into a setting like in The Big Bang Theory, but all centered on the young granddaughter, "Mir" or Miriam, of one of the original artists of The TomorrowMen. She and Weldon, the grandson and family m... | [] | 1626723648 | 1626723648 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,563,069,352,975 | 0 | false |
5 | Great Journey to Personal Empowerment | This was one of those YA novels where I thought I knew what was going to happen almost every step of the way. While you think you do know the story, there is a twist that makes everything you've read make much more sense.<br /><br />Woven between the present and the past, we follow the journey of the main character, A... | [] | 1481415204 | 1481415204 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,562,792,798,233 | 0 | false |
4 | Essential History | As an ELA teacher (English Language Arts), I recently read several texts about the Civil Right's Movement with my students, and Emmett Till was one part of our discussion. I had also recently seen the dedicated room to Till in the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Both made me want to learn mor... | [] | 019932512X | 019932512X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,562,368,496,155 | 1 | false |
4 | Male Lead as Insta-Parent is Cute | This was a little cliche in its romance, but I liked the characters and wanted to see them happy. I thought the idea of the main male character needing to step in as a parent for his teenage sister was interesting, and I'm sure my desire to see the teen also find some peace kept me flipping pages. There are some sexy... | [] | 1538760185 | 1538760185 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,561,871,270,843 | 0 | false |
3 | Summer Teen Romance | In this summer teen romance, we meet Jade, who has chosen to stay with her aunt and uncle for the summer so she can experience a real summer like other kids. Her mother is a performer and spends her time on the road, so Jade stays behind for a "typical" summer of working at the local pool, reading books, babysitting, ... | [] | 0553498819 | 0553498819 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,561,870,655,992 | 0 | false |
4 | Teen Resistance | In light of the world we live in today, it was really refreshing to see teens grapple with the hard issues we see in the world, and take a hard stand for social justice. Centered around two friends, Jasmine and Chelsea, the two young women attend a progressive New York City high school. Part of their schooling involv... | [] | 154760008X | 154760008X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,561,418,199,978 | 0 | false |
5 | Historical Fiction and Mystery | I love a good historical fiction novel, and this one that is set in England really fit the bill perfectly. Set in Northern England in the 1600's, Fleetwood Shuttleworth finds herself newly married and miscarrying pregnancies over and over again, leading her husband, Richard, to worry about her ability to provide him w... | [] | 0778369188 | 0778369188 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,561,250,798,823 | 0 | false |
3 | Fun Way to Relive or Experience the Beatles | Set in the 1960s, Trudy Mixer is a young, 12 year-old girl who considers herself the Beatles biggest fan. After seeing them on the Ed Sullivan show, her love for the Beatles and Paul McCartney takes over her life. Trudy sets up a Beatles fan club at her school, but finds that the numbers in the club keeps slipping. H... | [] | 1524785113 | 1524785113 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,560,964,548,822 | 0 | false |
4 | Strategy Step by Step | My grandfather was part of the Army Corp of Engineers that landed on Omaha on D-Day. He lived to tell, yet NEVER told until he was in his 70s. How we never knew is beyond me, but once he finally shared that traumatic day as a 19 year old, in the fourth wave to hit the beach, and the mangled bodies and debris they cra... | [] | 0802129420 | 0802129420 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,559,144,309,496 | 10 | false |
4 | Scary Look at AI and The Possibilities | What a wild ride! I can always expect to be pushed to think and feel almost beyond my limits. In MACHINES LIKE ME, McEwan takes on the world of ai and human robots that can be programmed with self-selected characteristics. Charlie, along with upstairs neighbor and girlfriend Alice, together take on a human robot, Ada... | [] | 0385545118 | 0385545118 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,559,060,799,882 | 1 | false |
1 | Nope | I'm not sure if I missed the boat somehow, but I really didn't like this book. As a translated novel from Dutch, I wondered if I missed something of a cultural nature? The novellas are really a wandering tale of a young boy and his neighbor "friends" in their day to day young lives. Their days are filled with cruelt... | [] | 1782274588 | 1782274588 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,557,852,343,372 | 0 | false |
4 | Another Feel Good Novel | Jennifer E. Smith is some sort of magician when it comes to YA romance. Her novels always have simple messages and end with a happy ending. Let's get read, sometimes you need a book that you know is going to leave you feeling optimistic and happy. For me, Smith's novels definitely do that!<br /><br />In Field Notes ... | [] | 0399559418 | 0399559418 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,557,754,776,768 | 2 | false |
5 | Great Representations | What a power-hitting children's book! This short little children's book looks at all those African Americans who have helped shape this country. I love the array of people featured here and to see inspiration and heroes from people of color. The book is inspirational, touching, and a great book to add to any family l... | [] | 1328780961 | 1328780961 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,557,160,597,331 | 0 | false |
4 | Such Great Storytelling | Cisneros is such an interesting writer. She doesn't always follow conventional story patterns, and I love the way she makes some of her chapters feel more like vignettes or short stories than a piece of the whole. You really could take moments from her books to share in a class. Also, her observations about her Mexi... | [] | 1400041503 | 1400041503 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,556,729,616,891 | 0 | false |
4 | Terrifying and Gut-Wrenching | I'm not even sure how to talk about this book--the emotions, the confusion, the angst. Centered around the story of a family that took in a chimpanzee to raise alongside their baby daughter, we are shown the effects this has on both--scientifically and psychologically. To be honest, it seemed that the result on the h... | [] | 0142180823 | 0142180823 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,556,728,977,709 | 7 | true |
3 | Deep Angst About a Divided Country | I really love poetry and was especially eager to get my hands on these poems. Written by Richard Blanco, who was asked to write Obama's inauguration poem, is a deep poet with deep ties to many issues we have continued to grapple with--race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration, etc. This collection does not disapp... | [] | 0807025917 | 0807025917 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,556,032,221,914 | 3 | false |
5 | Compelling Beauty and the Beast Homage | Based on the classic Beauty and the Beast tale, this story takes off like a shot, but never slows down until the very end. Our Belle here is named Harper, and she enters the story with vim and vigor to shake the story to its core. To say she is a strong-willed heroine is putting it lightly. Struggling with cerebral ... | [] | 1681195089 | 1681195089 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,553,733,917,008 | 0 | false |
3 | Great Inside View, Wanted More | In this narrative poem, we hear the story of a mother who has lost her husband to gangs in El Salvador, and is then forced to run from home to find a refuge for her and her baby. As one can imagine, this experience is fraught with terror, persecution, violence, and separation. While I genuinely found the poem moving ... | [] | 0807059358 | 0807059358 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,553,732,895,634 | 1 | false |
4 | Great Tips and Lists | I am a high school English teacher and ACT prep instructor, so I really wanted to check out this concentrated manual by Barron's. I have another brand's prep material as well, but want a variety to compare their approaches. The thing that I appreciate about this book over other manuals is the way it gives specific vo... | [] | 1438011121 | 1438011121 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,553,028,757,608 | 3 | false |
4 | Playful Book | This Monkey and Cake book is really cute. There isn't anything big in meaning or lesson, but is just a cute book about a monkey and a piece of cake discussing what is in a box. I think the story plays on childrens' natural curiosities and adds the colorful images and characters to keep the book moving forward. This ... | [] | 1338143867 | 1338143867 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,552,323,006,448 | 0 | false |
5 | Nice to See Timely Issues Discussed for Young Adults | In the novel Nowhere Boy, we meet Ahmed, a young teen escaping Syria with his father. Having lost most of his family, he and his father left by boat to try to reach Greece, where his father dies in the sea. Over and over again, Ahmed meets great tragedy and ends up alone, without his father, in Belgium. Knowing he i... | [] | 1250307570 | 1250307570 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,552,322,508,199 | 0 | false |
5 | Ready to Be More Plant-Based Eater! | This cookbook is beautiful and so well organized, which is alphabetical by vegetable type. They do give a variety of recipes and even preparation types for each veggie. In full disclosure, I picked this cookbook up because I've developed an intolerance to raw fruits and vegetables and am devastated. I have been looking... | [] | 1945256737 | 1945256737 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,551,742,894,331 | 1 | false |
5 | Straight-Forward Test Prep | In full disclosure, I'm an English teacher who also teaches ACT prep. Because our students aren't really required to take the SAT, I've been curious about what it contains and have had AP students who have needed to take it and I haven't had any information for them. This was an invaluable resource, as I can now loan... | [] | 1942321058 | 1942321058 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,551,115,896,616 | 1 | false |
5 | Engaging and Believable YA Murder Mystery | After reading "One of Us is Lying," and really enjoying it, I had to read the next novel published by McManus. She somehow manages to capture teenagers in a somewhat of a realistic view, while still giving us far-fetched mysteries that you buy into. In this novel, a teen girl has ended up dead and more are to come. ... | [] | 1524714720 | 1524714720 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,550,777,362,443 | 0 | false |
3 | Gritty and Real | I struggled to rate and review these poems, because they are so raw and revealing. How do you say you don't enjoy all of someone's experience? Asghar's poetry ranges from the immigrant experience in the U.S., with its racial tension and Islamophobia, to the tensions in India during the partition which separated India... | [] | 052550978X | 052550978X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,548,352,961,071 | 0 | false |
5 | Powerful & Timely | This novel was so timely and pertinent to our current xenophobic climate, that it felt too real. Set in our current time, post 2016 presidential election, Ahmed puts us a step further down the line if we were to increase the Muslim Ban to actual internment.<br /><br />In the story, we follow our main character, Layla ... | [] | 0316522694 | 0316522694 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,548,120,185,287 | 0 | false |
5 | Great for Holiday Read | Fixie is the "fixer" in everyone's life. She puts aside her own wants, dreams, and desires to help others--her family store, her sister's marriage, her friend's employment, her brother's greed, and even a stranger's laptop. Fixie is that character who doubts herself and pushes aside what she thinks and feels for thos... | [] | 1524799017 | 1524799017 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,546,970,038,844 | 5 | false |
4 | Beautiful Graphic Overview of a Life | This is a graphic novel that tells the story of one man's life through paired images on each page. On the left we get a view of the point in his life, with the date and location at the bottom of the page. On the right, we get a more global image of what he's doing or what stage in life he's at. First off, the images... | [] | 1910620491 | 1910620491 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,546,830,951,475 | 0 | false |
3 | Great Pictures | The pictures are great, but the calendar is teeny. This is more of a cookbook made into a calendar. I'll be honest, I don't know where I would want the recipes, but I don't want to sacrifice the actual calendar to the degree it is in this one. Still, a very nice calendar overall! | [] | 0789334844 | 0789334844 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,546,225,450,099 | 0 | true |
4 | Cross Between Bridget Jones & Love Actually | Have you ever locked eyes with someone and wondered "what if"? There's an external part of a our lives and an internal life where we acknowledge our connections and feelings for others. In One Day in December, that internal life comes to play as Laurie and Jack find a connection with one another, from day one, that t... | [] | 0525574689 | 0525574689 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,545,679,028,959 | 0 | false |
3 | Issues and Basketball Driven | Narrated through two teen male friends, Bunny and Nasir, we follow the damage done to their friendship when Bunny moves to a prestigious private school from his community, impoverished public school, where he can get more time for basketball and a chance at college basketball in the future. Race and poverty take cente... | [] | 1328702278 | 1328702278 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,544,548,932,020 | 1 | false |
5 | MUST Read for Educators | Although this is geared toward language arts teachers--gradeschool through high school--I feel like this book is a great starting point for valuable discussions in all subject areas. Touted as a "Disruptive Thinking" book, it is essentially about the value and need for critical thinking and personal response. How and... | [] | 1338132903 | 1338132903 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,541,715,004,460 | 0 | false |
3 | For the "Out There" Jams | These jams are really very strange. In some cases, I didn't even know what some of the ingredients were for these jams! I don't know that many of these items we can even find where I live (or anywhere near). I like the process on some of these, and would like to try smaller batches like they put together. The flora... | [] | 0857834398 | 0857834398 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,541,714,094,085 | 4 | false |
4 | Great Issues Surrounding Girls Around the Globe | As an English teacher, this book hit my radar way before it was published as one that I wanted to check out. Set in modern day Pakistan, our main character, Amal, shares her day to day life--generally built around her love for school and getting her hands on books to read. She shares her enthusiasm with three younger... | [] | 0399544682 | 0399544682 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,541,428,255,259 | 1 | false |
5 | Powerful Tale Told Through Verse | Swing is one of those novels that you won't soon forget. While I really enjoy novels told in verse form, I can't say that I've gotten lost in the story quite as much as I did here. The development of the story is slow but thoughtful, helping you to fully connect to all the characters involved. The most important cha... | [] | 0310761913 | 0310761913 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,540,922,184,040 | 0 | false |
3 | Not the Romance It's Billed to Be | This book is set in the U.S. and England during WWII, which is always an interesting to period to read. Beginning in the U.S., we meet our series of characters, mainly centered around Adelia Monteforte, who is an immigrant from Italy living here in the U.S. with her aunt and uncle. She quickly becomes friends with a ... | [] | 0778317544 | 0778317544 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,540,831,365,396 | 1 | false |
2 | Hard Review to Write... | I desperately hoped this would be all I had heard from reviews of the Broadway play, but sadly, it was not. As a disclaimer, I have not seen the play, but have heard the basic premise. I was excited to read this novel and to place it in my classroom library (which I still intend to do); however, the way the story of ... | [] | 0316420239 | 0316420239 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,539,623,491,003 | 18 | false |
5 | Our Haunting Racial Reality | Ghost Boys is an amazing middle grade novel that features a young boy shot by a policeman one day while he's playing in an empty lot in Chicago. The boy becomes a ghost and is left to see those he left behind, his own officer's trial, and meet up with other young men who have lost their lives to injustice and racism. ... | [] | 0316262285 | 0316262285 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,539,622,392,399 | 0 | false |
3 | Frustrating Journey, But Important Conversation | In this second novel by Nic Stone, we are introduced to a trio of characters: Courtney, Jupiter, and Rae. Each character takes a turn narrating the story by thirds in the book, starting with the only male of the three, Courtney, who is harboring a bit of a crush on his female best friend, Jupiter. The only issue ther... | [] | 1101939532 | 1101939532 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,538,342,145,983 | 5 | false |
5 | Amazing Look at the Effects of Fear | This far surpassed all of my expectations. The message, images, and storytelling is just excellent in this little children's book. Although the theme of this book might be difficult for very young children to understand, I do think that the message of how we all carry around fear is so important. I also have to say ... | [] | 1911171534 | 1911171534 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,537,497,641,809 | 0 | false |
5 | Amazing Study Aid | As a teacher of ACT prep class in the past, I gave most of my materials to another teacher who was taking over the program. Since I still teach and do some prep in my regular courses, I wanted to update my materials. In full disclosure, I already really loved McGraw-Hill's short videos to help students understand the... | [] | 1260121976 | 1260121976 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,537,060,272,319 | 0 | false |
5 | Amazingly Complete Cookbook from A to Z | This heavy little cookbook really does have everything you could want in a good all-round American cookbook--meats, soups, salads, desserts, and more. It is organized in a pretty interesting way, by theme rather than all soups, salads, or meats all in a bunch. This cookbook uses beautiful pictures to give you an idea... | [] | 1945256516 | 1945256516 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,535,461,880,210 | 0 | false |
5 | African Fantasy That You Can't Put Down | This is such an amazing fantasy novel, filled with world-building, magic, Nigerian gods/goddesses, and great action sequences. I teach young adult literature, so this was a book I was eager to get my hands on. Although a bit long, the story is gripping. The chapters are also pretty short and change narrator so that ... | [] | 1250170974 | 1250170974 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,534,956,873,650 | 0 | true |
5 | Powerful Explanation for Syrian Refugee Crisis | This graphic novel is really well done. If you want to see the effects of the conflict in Syria and the forced emigration of its citizens, this graphic novel really tries to highlight why people left (or were forced out). Although the graphic novel is pretty straight-forward and weighted more as non-fiction than a st... | [] | 1328810151 | 1328810151 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,533,180,967,711 | 0 | false |
3 | A Timely Immigrant Tale | This YA novel has a very timely immigration theme that helps us get inside the feelings of children of parents who have moved to the United States for a better future. In the novel, our main character, Jasmine, is the overachiever daughter of Filipino parents. After being granted a full scholarship to college for her... | [] | 0373212380 | 0373212380 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,530,678,540,932 | 0 | false |
2 | Not as Expected | This novel had all the potential--a dramatic reason for the main character's move from France to Ireland, the broken-hearted actions of our characters, did I say Ireland?, oh, and a cute title. However, it was all too dramatic and over the top for me. All the angst for the main character and others really came to nau... | [] | 1602862842 | 1602862842 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,524,851,927,656 | 0 | false |
5 | Nice Collection of Bulletin Board Sets | You have a really nice collection of "reading" hints and suggestions for students. These are large enough to take up a big portion of a bulletin board or place on a wall with posters. I'm going to be moving classrooms and will be losing some of my posters, so these will make for a nice addition to my room. | [] | 1483842282 | 1483842282 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,522,725,814,558 | 0 | false |
4 | Large Welcoming Sign | I should have measured a little more closely, as this was much bigger than I expected. It makes for a nice addition to a classroom and could cover a good portion of a wall, either above a whiteboard or along the back of the classroom. I'll be moving rooms soon, so I'll have to see the best place for it, but its brigh... | [] | 1483842053 | 1483842053 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,522,725,669,757 | 0 | false |
3 | YA Romantic Drama | Built around a mysterious drama surrounding Grace Downs, our main character, Henry Page finds himself drawn to her and her differences. Grace looks rag-tag, walks with a cane, and is an outsider. As the two begin working on the newspaper together, Henry finds out more about her and what has led her to this place in h... | [] | 0399546561 | 0399546561 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,517,327,458,595 | 0 | false |
4 | A Story of Identifying True Happiness | This is a compelling story of two sisters connecting through hand-written mail, one sister living in Singapore and the other in New York. As the sisters connect through their communication, we learn about the things they are struggling with, including their personal ambitions and marriages. Cassie, the New York siste... | [] | 1101989866 | 1101989866 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,513,904,001,878 | 0 | false |
3 | Romantic Story About the Connections We Make that Last a Lifetime | Set in Paris around the time of the Nazi occupation during WWII, we begin our story following Anne and Alexis, who grew up in the Montmarte area of Paris. With the occupation these young pre-teens were separated geographically and by the years. Anne went on with her life, to marry and start a life in Paris, while thi... | [] | 1497654351 | 1497654351 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,505,225,257,532 | 0 | false |
4 | Great YA/New Adult Romance | Definitely a sweet, romantic read. What this book brings that others do not is a direct inclusion into the story of two Indian-American teens on the cusp of college and adulthood looking at culture or future--or does there have to be a break between the two? Our main characters, Dimple and Rishi, have been arranged t... | [] | 1481478680 | 1481478680 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,505,224,821,372 | 0 | false |
4 | The American Dream Gone Awry | How do you write a review for a book that took almost a decade to read? As an English grad student, all I ever heard were allusions to two major pieces of literature: The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot and American Pastoral by Philip Roth. I had the chance to study the first, but never had to read the second. I've long wo... | [] | 0375701427 | 0375701427 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,505,224,401,863 | 58 | true |
5 | Vietnam in Verse | Told in haikus, we follow Ashe during the Vietnam years, who is split between two very different parents. Ashe's father is very much about patriotism and serving your country, while Ashe's mother is completely against the war and for peace. Each chapter is set up with a body count, telling us how many young men lost ... | [] | 054430215X | 054430215X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,492,314,376,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Beautiful, Simply Beautiful | One of the best children's books I've seen that deals with death in a way that children could start to grapple with. Based on a true story of two polar bears and the New York zoo, this sweet book tackles topics that we rarely want to confront. | [] | 1481426400 | 1481426400 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,488,217,710,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Exploring the Ties that Bind | As a long-time fan of Danticat's work, I was excited to see that she had written a YA novel. Centering on the lives of a pair of twin, separated by a horrible accident, we follow the healing process of the twin left behind. The feelings and thoughts of our main character, Giselle, are poignant and varied as she comes... | [] | 0545423031 | 0545423031 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,488,217,541,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A YA, WWII Mystery | Set in Amsterdam during WWII, we meet Hanneke, who smuggles everyday and pricey goods to the people of her city. On one outing, Hanneke is asked for help in finding a young girl that one of her customers was hiding. Therein, we meet the "girl in the blue coat" who Hanneke must try to find. The rest of the bo... | [] | 0316260606 | 0316260606 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,473,127,640,000 | 1 | false |
5 | I highly recommend this to children | One of the sweetest childrens books I have read in the last while. I highly recommend this to children, teens, and adults. Everyone can read and enjoy this little bundle of love. | [] | 1452126992 | 1452126992 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,453,822,904,000 | 10 | true |
5 | The Power of the Story | The Story Hour is one of those novels that sneaks up on you, and before you know it, you care deeply about the characters involved and want to sit with them to hear more about their lives. Complex and yet quiet in its complexity, our two main characters, Maggie and Lakshmi, create a friendship out of a shared understa... | [] | 006225930X | 006225930X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,453,822,840,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Dimension Jumping...And All That Jazz | The premise behind this novel was really cool. The idea that you could jump between dimensions to visit yourself and your family at different times in different lives was strange, but interesting. When the main character's father is murdered, she takes off across dimensions to chase down his killer. Along the way, we l... | [] | 0062278967 | 0062278967 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,434,081,000,000 | 1 | false |
3 | A Biased Perspective of Paradise | As someone who has spent a good deal of time with family who lived on the North Shore, I really wanted to read this one. Once I got started on the book however, I realized that it was nothing like I expected. While the writing was well done and I could appreciate a well turned phrase, Chas Smith's inability to live or ... | [] | 0062202529 | 0062202529 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,403,929,653,000 | 3 | false |
5 | His Brilliance Echoes On | The story begins with a tale or myth of sacrifice that parents might recount to their children as some type of bedtime story. In this opening chapter, the father in the story tells his young son and daughter this myth as he walks across a vast desert--the young son only along on the journey because he wants to help pu... | [] | 159463176X | 159463176X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,391,730,390,000 | 8 | true |
5 | A Case For Bridget | ***Spoilers Ahead. If you have not already heard about the major premise of this novel, you might not want to continue reading.***<br /><br />Life's not perfect. Is that not one of the reasons that we somehow love and connect to Bridget Jones? Things always get messy for her, and yet it worked out for her in the end... | [] | 0385350864 | 0385350864 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,388,290,678,000 | 3 | true |
5 | Another Jennifer E. Smith Hit | Jennifer E. Smith knows how to write books that grab at you and makes you love her characters. As the writer of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, I also got sucked in and cared about her main characters and wanted to follow them through from beginning to end, regardless of how "probable" the ... | [] | 0316212822 | 0316212822 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,385,754,689,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Second Chance Love | Megan Mulry has a knack for writing a variety of female characters, which I know from reading her first two novels in the Unruly Royal series, A Royal Pain and If the Shoe Fits. Each of the characters she has written have their own distinct direction they are going in life, with their own basket of issues and flaws, w... | [] | 0989997502 | 0989997502 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,385,754,083,000 | 0 | false |
4 | YA Downton Style | Set in a beautiful estate called Somerton, we are introduced to what seems to be the YA equivalent of Downton Abbey. After what feels like a long absence from my favorite Downton characters, this was a nice return to the manners, society, and scandal that I was hankering for, all in the pages of a book.<br /><br />Set... | [] | 1423171179 | 1423171179 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,381,893,918,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Heart Achingly Romantic | Here is a book that is so good that it makes writing the review almost too hard to write. Do I need to pull out an old fashioned ink and quill to do this time period novel its due credit? In some ways, there is nothing short of a good old fashion I loved it that will work. Julianne Donaldson has written a heart-rendi... | [] | 1609074602 | 1609074602 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,379,464,696,000 | 1 | false |
3 | This Wedding Night Exhausted Me | I love Greece so much that it kills me with every year that I stay away. So what's not to love about combining one of my favorite authors and one of my favorite locations? I have to say that the premise was all so very promising, with the backdrop of a Greek island, an old flame, and the comedy of a sabotaged wedding... | [] | 0812993845 | 0812993845 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,375,324,356,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Graphic Foodie Memoir | Relish is a graphic novel about the author's life. With a chef mother and a foodie father, Kinsley reminisces about her childhood of salmon mousse, foi gras, and specialty cheeses. Mixed with her memories of sitting on restaurant floors (getting leftover creme brulee at the end of the night), are admissions of her lo... | [] | 1596436239 | 1596436239 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,367,206,455,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Great Realistic Read | In a time when teen novels are filled with pretty girls, magical powers, and popular crowds, Jennifer Shaw Wolf's novel captures a group of teens that feel more like the norm. Allie, our main character, is flawed by the sadness and pain she carries after the loss of her boyfriend Trip. She has a brother, Andrew, who ... | [] | 0802723527 | 0802723527 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,802,714,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Another Kinsella Gem | Let me say it straight. This was one fun book! I smiled and laughed a lot while reading Kinsella's newest novel. Poppy was every woman and I can't imagine a person not finding something to relate to in her character. She lost her engagement ring in a "let me try it on" shuffle between friends. Her cell phone got s... | [] | 0385342063 | 0385342063 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,802,626,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Pride & Prejudice Inspired Novel | I really liked the idea of this novel, but will admit to having struggled with all that was going on. Between the historical possibility that Darcy and Elizabeth might have been real people, to the relationships between Maggie and several other characters, it was about all I could keep up with. The writing is good an... | [] | 1402224397 | 1402224397 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,802,533,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Fun Considering Laura's Life | How much do I love the Little House of the Prairie series? Enough so that I wrote a paper on my fascination with them and how they influenced my life for a grad school class. When I first heard about this book, I ran to check it out and definitely was not disappointed. Author, Wendy McClure, goes on a road trip and ... | [] | 1594485682 | 1594485682 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,802,349,000 | 1 | false |
5 | History & Pics | Like many people, I've had a fascination and curiosity about the mafia and what fuels it today. This book, however, really helped me put together the history of the mafia in what was essentially a coffee table book that nails down the background, beginnings, and big players in this legendary crime powerhouse. What I ... | [] | 2080301500 | 2080301500 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,802,249,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Fun More Grown Up Vampire Romp | This book starts with a bang. Seriously. There isn't much of a lead up to the main character, Merit's, being turned into a vampire. Bam! She has been turned and has to face her new reality. Now she can no longer be the graduate student she once was; she now has to give it all up to choose a vampire "house" to belo... | [] | 0451226259 | 0451226259 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,887,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Movin' the Story Along | I still love the Sookie Stackhouse series and will keep reading the books until I'm worn out--whichever comes first, I'll never know. I will admit that I pick them up and find myself trying to remember how the previous book ended and what details I've maybe watched in the show on HBO, so that I can distinguish the sto... | [] | 0441018645 | 0441018645 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,705,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Finding Out About Andy | I have been a Bravo fan for a very long time. In fact, I started watching the Real Housewive's franchise from day one of the Orange County ladies. Andy Cohen was kind of a known extra cast member of sorts, to those of us who have followed these shows. I think everyone who knows him, loves him! Honestly, Andy Cohen ... | [] | 0805095837 | 0805095837 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,617,000 | 4 | true |
5 | Amazing Narrative Tale | Extremely reminiscent of Little House on the Prairie, the story of May Betts is one that is touching and haunting all at the same time. May B (as she is nicknamed) is a young girl in western Kansas with a thirst to learn and read, but something just isn't right, and she just can't fit the words together. Because of t... | [] | 158246393X | 158246393X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,510,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Interesting Visual Literacy at Work | I'm not even sure how to go about explaining this amazing little graphic novel. After seeing it in the early nominations for "Best of..." awards on Goodreads, I decided to check Chopsticks out and was not disappointed. Told in a series of pictures, instant messages, letters, ticket stubs, etc., this was more of a stu... | [] | 1595144358 | 1595144358 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,313,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Great Emotional Romance | Lady Hawskworth's husband has supposedly been lost at sea. That's what she believes until her husband, that she had no love lost with before he left, has returned. With the return of her supposed husband, everyone is left scrambling to figure out if he really is Earl Hawksworth or just some convincing swindler?<br />... | [] | 038078145X | 038078145X | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,358,801,194,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Delightful Downton Cookery Class | Yes, it's "unofficial," but with a couple of long months ahead of us as we painfully wait for season three, it still is pretty fun to check out the recipes that just might be cooked up for our famous Downton clan.<br /><br />Set up in a pretty classic fashion, this cookbook is minus the glossy pictures we expect today.... | [] | 1440538913 | 1440538913 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,351,455,113,000 | 4 | false |
3 | An Interesting Teen Break Up Story | I had mixed feelings about this book. In the beginning I really liked how different it was from many of the other young adult "break up" novels I'd read, with its chapters each centered around some item that came from their relationship. Throughout the novel we see these gifts or relics of their relationship that each... | [] | 0316127256 | 0316127256 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,349,033,448,000 | 2 | false |
4 | A Good Diet Memoir | Like many readers, I picked this book up in the hopes of getting some inspiration from Shauna's story. It's hard not to be inspired by someone who lost so much weight the hard, old-fashioned way through diet and exercise. Shauna spent years and years, not weeks and months, to lose her weight, which feels more real th... | [] | 0061657700 | 0061657700 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,344,279,294,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Yet Another Sweet Reason to Travel! | Looking back on that first and only trip to Paris, I'm still kind of sad that we didn't get a chance to explore the treats that the city had to offer. Thankfully, I was in the group that decided to walk down to Lauderee to try out my first French macaron. First of all, the store was such a pretty site to see, with pa... | [] | 1402264119 | 1402264119 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,343,624,314,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Captivating Twist on a Love Story | Told in a series of non-linear stories that pop back and forth (and almost seemingly sideways) through time, The Time Traveler's Wife journeys through the life of time traveler, Henry. In an interesting, and strangely plausible set up, time travel is explained to us as readers as a problem on the cellular level that m... | [] | 0547119798 | 0547119798 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,343,624,144,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Surprisingly Fresh Spooky Story | You know those restless moments you have with reading where you're dying to read something new and original? I realize that every storyline is based off a very small family tree of stories, but Ransom Riggs' novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a strange little ride through a variety of stories that ma... | [] | 1594744769 | 1594744769 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,343,624,108,000 | 0 | true |
5 | Amazing Depth of Storytelling | I've had Stitches on my shelf for some time, possibly intimidated by its ghoulish looking cover. Thankfully I pulled it out and was completely absorbed in the story from the beginning. Told from the perspective of the author as a little boy, his memories are clouded with the surreal and the stark. The memories that ... | [] | 0393338967 | 0393338967 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,343,623,843,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Angst-Ridden, British Countryside Chick Lit. | What is not to love about a Phillipa Ashley novel? Honest. Her heroes make you swoon and her plots feel familiar, have an unexpected twist, but always end up feeling satisfying. In this novel, Lucy Gibson has a shocking situation happen with her reality-star winning boyfriend that has her feeling stunned and in need... | [] | 1402241437 | 1402241437 | AH74XLC3QBXVC6UCOAQOJH3WJYGA | 1,343,623,698,000 | 1 | false |
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