John Schu | Reading Teacher Writes

April 8, 2024
by Jennifer Sniadecki 1 Comment

IMWAYR: New Spaces, New Books

It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a weekly blog hop hosted by Kellee and Ricki of Unleashing Readers. The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

Head over to Unleashing Readers to join the link up and share your reads from this week!

We moved! I love my new spaces: the great room, the guest bedroom, the office I’m sitting in now…all of it! New spaces brought new books (to me) this week.

Libro.fm: I’m listening more now while I clean and unpack. These two wonderful books are not long, but they are wonderful and written by my friends. Louder Than Hunger by John Schu, narrated by Jeff Ebner and John Schu is a much needed title for our middle grade school library, with a fictional character based on a real life story. (I love “based on a true story” books!) Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five is a new picture book from Phil Bildner, read by Torian Brackett. I love that the Glenn Burke story is now a picture book to go along with A High Five For Glenn Burke (2019), also by the author. I love both these titles!

Physical Books: New-to-me books include graphic novels I received from Publisher Spotlight (Thank you!) and I cannot believe I hadn’t heard of these before. They are going to the library as soon as possible.

One more graphic novel I borrowed from the school library — I’ve had it on my list for a while. I loved Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan.

It’s Monday! What are YOU reading?

March 13, 2023
by Jennifer Sniadecki 3 Comments

IMWAYR: Book Birthdays and Re-Reads

IMWAYR is a weekly blog hop with kid lit co-hosts Jennifer from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers. The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. It’s a great way to share what you’re reading and get recommendations from others. We encourage you to write your own post sharing what you’re reading, link up, leave a comment, and support other IMWAYR bloggers by visiting and commenting on at least three of the other linked blogs each week.

Physical Books – New: Happy Book Birthday to John Schu and Lauren Castillo! It’s FINALLY here! This Is a Story is a long-awaited picture book for celebrating readers and reading. I was lucky enough to see this one before it publishes tomorrow. Look at this cover! (That’s how I hold new books – I hug them!) There’s even a poster on the inside of the jacket. Share this story with all your friends and family!

T.P. Jagger is in town! My author friend came to visit for a few days and meet students from our district’s elementary schools. We are having so much fun talking about writing (secret tips!), reading, and T.P.’s series, Hide and GEEK. These four friends – Gina, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin (the GEEKs) – are having adventures and solving mysteries and our readers love the series! In the first book, the GEEKs try to save their town as the famous toy factory that manufactured the Bamboozler is shutting down. In the second book, someone is trying to say the GEEKs are frauds! What? (You’ll have to read and find out.)

NetGalley and Libro.fm: I’m still reading Dear Medusa and listening to Finally Seen. These books are keeping my attention even though I just started a very busy week.

It’s MONDAY! What are YOU reading?