Summary: A young girl meets her grandfather for the first time in a room where he has stored everything he’s ever collected over his life. He says that every item in this room has a story and he tells her that he will tell her the story of any one item she chooses. She picks up a plain box...
The Matchbox Diary, is great! I absolutely love the interaction of the grandfather sharing with his granddaughter his memories through his matchbox collection. It was very sweet and heartwarming. The illustrations were beautiful and warm, just like the characters in the book. The illustrations we...
Beautifully illustrated fictional memoir using the idea that the grandfather collected small items and kept them in matchboxes as his "diary", giving opportunity to tell his granddaughter about significant episodes in his life as an Italian immigrant. Loved!How 'bout using as an EOY literature/wr...
I'd place "The Dunderheads" by Paul Fleischman squarely in the Realistic genre. It definitely seems to be a "What if" kind of book with lots of humor, adventure, and suspense. I'd read it to any school age kid - I certainly think they would get the most our of it, up to about 5th grade. "The Dund...
I recommend Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman to adolescent and adult readers who are interested in a simple yet inspiring story. Three reasons I like this book are because it has interesting characters, important life lessons and an inspiring message. If you read this book, you will see how one nine ...
This play write was a very interesting one. With its rapid changes in plays, it was a little hard to follow. This play consisted of 7 total plays within. At the beggining the house manager reads a monologue explaining some theater etiquite, such as turning off cell phones and no flash photogrophy...
tA Fate Totally Worse Than Death by Paul Fleischman was actually really good. I read it because I was looking for a quick read that I could read in one night easily. This was about 120 pages with large font, so it didn't take long at all. Basically it's about three rich, popular girls who will do...
Brent Bishop is a typical new kid. He is worried about his status in the school and wants desperately to have the popular Brianna on his arm and goes to great lengths to make that happen, including putting himself out there at a party. Brianna, however, has other ideas about her life and Brent su...
B. TILBURY Twelve-pound balls, canister, shrapnel. We sent them all at the Southerners. Then their artillery took our measure and commenced to devil us in return. We’d fire and they’d fire. I expect they crouched when they heard a shell coming, same as we did. I almost felt I’d a double across th...
He was like a distant land known only through travelers’ tales, an inhospitable realm where strange and shocking customs survived. There, moths and butterflies were stalked, caught, dried, labeled, and displayed on the walls of every room, as if they were charms against evil spirits. Pea soup and...
Good evening. Thank you all for coming to tonight’s world premiere. A few preliminaries. No photographs, please, flash or otherwise. Likewise, no recording of any kind. Please check that all cell phones and pagers are turned off. Please do, however, make use of the remote controls you should have...
Occasionally they crossed another road along the way, but never once did they come to a house or a town. Aaron nervously wondered just where on the face of the earth he was, and thought of getting off at the next road they came to. But it might take him days before he met another person, someone ...
Trunks were opened and mourning clothes solemnly exhumed. The crew of the brig Orion was buried. And yet the matter remained unfinished. No evidence of attack had been found. There was no sign of scurvy, no shortage of food. When the ship was boarded, the crew was discovered to be lying about the...