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Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
- Richard McKenna
Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Debut Author Challenge
Re-Reads
** Read Alouds
- The Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography - Agatha Christie (NF)
- Scarlet - A. C. Gaughen (YA)
- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are - Ann Voskamp (NF)
- Swindle - Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Breadcrumbs - Anne Ursu (MG)
- Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick (MG)**
- The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie - Wendy McClure (NF)
- A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke - James Horn (NF)
- Wonder - R. J. Palacio (MG)
- Circle of Secrets - Kimberley Griffiths Little (MG)
- A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar - Suzanne Joinson
- Chained - Lynne Kelly (MG)
- Starters - Lissa Price (YA)
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (YA)
- Toilet Paper Tigers - Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Zoobreak - Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Love in Mid-Air - Kim Wright Wiley
- The Bee-Loud Glade - Steve Himmer
- The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate (MG)
- Wildflowers in Winter - Katie Ganshert
- Touch Blue - Cynthia Lord (MG)
- Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi (YA)
- A Voice for Kanzas - Debra MacArthur (MG)
- The Gathering Storm - Robin Bridges (YA)
- A Summer to Die - Lois Lowry (YA)
- Where the Broken Heart Still Beats - Carolyn Meyer (YA)
- The No-Brainer Wardrobe - Hayley Morgan (NF)
- All Over But the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg (NF)
- New Found Land - Alan Wolf (YA)
- If I Lie - Corrine Jackson (YA)
- Sister - Rosamund Lupton
- Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things (YA)
- Hound Dog True - Linda Urban (MG)
- Second Sight: An Editor's Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults - Cheryl B. Klein (NF)
- Glory Be - Augusta Scattergood (MG)
- A Breath of Eyre - Eve Marie Mont (YA)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
- Sanctuary - Agatha Christie
- The Thank You Room - Serenity Bohon (NF)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- The Wild Wood - Julie Anne Nelson (YA)
- Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe - Diana Souhami (NF)
- Crossed - Ally Condie (YA)
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains - Nicholas Carr (NF)
- The Ruins of Us - Keija Parssinen
- Where Things Come Back - John Corey Whaley (YA)
- Grave Mercy - Robin LaFevers (YA)
- Small Medium at Large - Joanne Levy (MG)
- The Mapmaker and the Ghost - Sarvenaz Tash (MG)**
- Chime - Franny Billingsley (YA)
- The Case of the Deadly Ha-Ha Game (MG)**
- Horton Halfpott: or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset - Tom Angleberger (MG)
- Cryer's Cross - Lisa McMann (YA)
- A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (YA)
- Remarkable - Lizzie K. Foley (MG)
- Paper Covers Rock - Jenny Hubbard (YA)
- Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein (YA)
- Small Damages - Beth Kephart (YA)
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World - Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery (MG/NF)
- Summer of the Gypsy Moths - Sara Pennypacker (MG)
- One for the Murphys - Lynda Mullaly Hunt (MG)
- The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg (NF)
- Liar and Spy - Rebecca Stead (MG)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain (NF)
- The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians - Michael Leroy Oberg (NF)
- Fracture - Megan Miranda (YA)
- Inside Out and Back Again - Thanhha Lai (MG)
- Writing the Breakout Novel - Donald Maas (NF)
- Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card
- The Unnameables - Ellen Booraem (MG)
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- How to Save a Life - Sara Zarr (YA)
- Auracle - Gina Rosati (YA)
- The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction - Sinclair Ferguson (NF)
- All is Well - Kristin Embry Litchman (MG)
- The False Prince - Jennifer Nielsen (MG)
- One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
- The Absolute Value of Mike - Kathryn Erskine (MG)
- The Brides of Rollrock Island - Margo Lanagan (YA)
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson (YA)
- The Great Unexpected - Sharon Creech (MG)
- faith: 2.4%
- research : 2.4%
- craft : 2.4%
- pleasure read: 12%
Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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"Alice's stomach was rumbling like an empty garbage can rolling down a hill..." PIE, Sarah Weeks
"I try to stuff myself between the seats, like coins." EMILY'S DRESS AND OTHER MISSING THINGS, Kathryn Burak
"Majid had a family network as complex and secretive as a walnut shell." THE RUINS OF US, Keija Parssinen
"Her voice sounds as hollow as the empty wasp's nests." CROSSED, Ally Condie
"The day is collapsing into dusk. The Gypsies in their white shirts are the only lamps. The moon is coming in like a pan on fire." SMALL DAMAGES, Beth KephartAnd some darn beautiful truths:
"I lay my hand on my heart. Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts. What if I could be treated as though I were small again? What if I were mothered all over again? Might I get my heart back?
My heart is unfolding." CHIME, Franny Billingsley
"That taste is still in my mouth. I know what it is. It's the taste of pretending. It's the taste of lying. It's the taste of a game that is over." LIAR AND SPY, Rebecca Stead
"In spring, Amherst changes into a storybook. The students grow wings from their heels and run through town spinning and singing. You get the idea that some parts of life are pure happiness, as least for a while. The toy store in the center of town puts all its kites outside, on display, so that the tails and whirligigs can illustrate the wind." EMILY'S DRESS AND OTHER MISSING THINGS, Kathryn BurakWhat helps you process what you learn as you read?
Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Few books are perfect. If you read like a writer you must read to gain what you can from each book, so reading then becomes a generous act. I tell my students they must learn to be generous readers, and judge each book not by whether it's the book they would have written but by whether it fulfilled the writer's apparent intention for it.
- Uma Krishnaswami
Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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There are some lovely conversations unfolding in the blogosphere. Please join in!
Perseverence
This is TERRIBLE! :: Picture This
The Book of My Heart :: Beth Revis
On Goals and Starting Over :: Beth Revis
Courage to Write Outside Your Culture
A Prayer to the Silent :: CBC Diversity
Passing on the Magic :: Nerdy Book Club
The Equation for Nerdy Book Club World Domination :: Nerdy Book Club
Middle Grade
What Sells Middle Grade Books? :: Shrinking Violets
Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'm at Erin Goodman's Behind the Blog today. Download the podcast here, and join us on Erin's Facebook page Saturday morning for a chat (8:00 am MST/ 10:00 am EST).
Here are some highlights:
1:50 -- Land of Enchantment
3:10 -- writing space
6:30 -- stranger in a strange land
7:10 -- topics I'm drawn to
9:20 -- my teaching years
11:30 -- Caroline by line
15:30 -- blogging with writing deadlines
16:45 -- meeting Mavis Betterly
17:10 -- graveyards and being nosey
19:10 -- learning disabilities in another era
20:30 -- the origins of May's name
23:00 -- when your children aren't ready for certain stories
27:20 -- wolf!
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Blog: Caroline by line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Right now I'm reading IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, a book that is part experiment, part commentary, and all about book love.
It's a collection of first chapters of made-up books. Just as you're getting hooked, Reader (meaning you -- much of the book is told through a second-person point of view) finds his book has been misprinted. Like a treasure hunt, Reader looks for the rest of the book but continues to stumble on new first chapters, getting further and further drawn into new stories he can never fully read.
Instead, Reader thinks about books, wondering if stories exist at all apart from the author or if they only begin once the author is removed, if words get in the way of a story or if they are the story themselves, if each reader experiences the same story or if every time a story is read it is something new.
And for those of us who read and write, there's this idea I read last night:
There's a boundary line; on one side are those who make books, on the other those who read them. I want to remain one of those who read them, so I take care always to remain on my side of the line. Otherwise, the unsullied pleasure of reading ends, or at least is transformed into something else, which is not what I want."
What are your thoughts on these things -- an author's role in a story, the way words build or distract, the unique perspective each of us brings to what we've read? And you writers out there, is it possible to cross the boundary line and still experience "the unsullied pleasure of reading"?
Great interview - thank you! I want to shadow Donalyn for a week. Can you arrange that? Ha.
Me, too! Tell me what you come up with, Holly. I'm leaving it all to you!
Enjoyed your interview with Donalyn! I just finished rereading The Book Whisperer last week for a class I'm taking so it was great to hear her current thoughts on the topics raised in the book. Choice and making reading relevant is more important than ever! Looking forward to Part 2 ...
I love that teachers are reading this book individually and in classrooms. For me, it was deeply satisfying to interact with Donalyn after reading. It was like getting an expanded version of the book.