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The school year is underway. I’ve been busy learning names, prepping, grading, teaching, and trying to read books that I’ve been dying to read for a while. One of those books is The Secret of the Fortune Wookie by Tom Angleberger, and let me tell you, it is another real treat in the Origami Yoda Series.
Another book I’ve started reading is The Apothecary by Maile Meloy. I’m really enjoying this one so far. It’s impressive when an author can throw you into an earlier time period effortlessly, and it feels like you never left the present. I’m already looking forward to the sequel, The Apprentices, which released in June of this year.
The last middle grade book on my immediate To-Be-Read pile is The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore. I’ve only heard greatness about this book, so I’m excited to crack it open, if I can cross the moat!
And since I’m a bird nerd, I picked up Snapper, by Brian Kimberling, from the library. I grew up in Indiana, and call that place my home, and I’ve even written a book about birds, so I had to read this one! Plus, I hear it’s funny and full of small town quirks. My kind of book.
