Legend - Book Talk

Here's my book trailer for Legend, by Marie Lu.  This was a video that I created using PP and MSMovieMaker.  My students also had a chance to make their own videos for this project.

I have the info graphic on how our October Lunch Time book talk went!  It's open to any student and I thought we had a good turn out (compared to last month anyway).

A Header for one of our Elementary Schools

I'm using this as a test for the header I made for one of our feeder elementary schools.  We'll see how it looks!

Top Tested on Books

Here is the list of our top 25 most tested on books on AR (Accelerated Reader).  Some comments follow the list.

Freak the Mighty/The Mighty

Tell-Tale Heart, The

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating, The

Hunger Games, The

Giving Tree, The

All-American Slurp (SF Edition), The

My Friends

One-Eyed Giant, The

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon, The

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever

Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid

Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10

Splat the Cat

Paper Bag Princess, The

Imogene's Antlers

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

Dentist from the Black Lagoon, The

In the Haunted House

Lunch Walks Among Us

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Bully from the Black Lagoon, The 

The top title was a school-wide read books.

Some books made the list because a class read them together, or I read them to a class (like Luck of the Loch Ness Monster!).

Some were tested on often because they were quick reads and kids wanted their points quick.

Some were just super popular, like The Hunger Games.

TLA is coming! Fort Worth FTW!

Our annual library conference is coming this week.  It's even here in the Town of the Cow, Fort Worth.  I'm really looking forward to it.

http://www.txla.org/annual-conference

There will be many great speakers and authors and I can't wait.

One that I'm looking forward to listening to is Neil Gaiman.

He is one of the keynote speakers.  He has written many books, including the Newbery winning The Graveyard Book.










I'm also looking forward to meeting many authors, including Marie Lu who has written Legend and Prodigy.

Bluebonnet Books - How many have you read?

Here's the list of 2013-2014 Bluebonnet Books that I've read so far.  It's not very many - YET - but we also don't have all of these books in our library yet.

I'm looking forward to reading Wonder.  I liked the One and Only Ivan and Looking at Lincoln best so far.

More paper crafts - my kids rock!

Here are some more great items that my kids have brought back.

I especially like the bunny with the whole Easter scene.