It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1-20-14

Visit our hosts Jen & Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers for their reviews as well as links to all the other bloggers participating in the book sharing fun!  There are so many new books to discover, and so many great conversations to be a part of!

Books I Read this Week:

Look Up!  Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate

Candlewick Press, 2013

Nonfiction Informational

54 pages

Recommended for grades 3-6

I love this book!  The author did all her own illustrations, and at times they are detailed and meant to teach, at other times they are simply there to crack the reader up!  

Packed with information on topics like: coloring, shapes, sounds, diets, habitats and more.

This book will be certain to inspire young bird lovers to begin keeping notes and sketches of the birds they observe around their own homes.

Bottom line: Tons of information and plenty of laughs!

The Secret Pool by Kimberly Ridley, illustrated by Rebekah Raye

Tilbury House, 2013

Nonfiction Informational

32 pages

Recommended for grades 2-4

This book is designed similarly to the "A Place for" series.  Each two page spread has lovely detailed illustrations and a nonfiction sidebar giving deeper information about one or more of the animals featured on that page spread.  On the opposite page there is a passage of narrative writing told from the perspective of a vernal pool.

The Silver Six by A.J. Lieberman, illustrated by Darren Rawlings

Scholastic Graphix, 2013

Graphic Novel: Science Fiction

192 pages

Recommended for grades 3-6

A sci-fi tale set in future Boston.  Six orphans find themselves together and discover a secret connection between them: the death of their parents in a mysterious shuttle explosion a year earlier.  When the kids take off from Earth they make their way to a moon, and begin the journey to uncover the truth of their parents' deaths.  Fun with lovely bright illustrations.

I'm Currently Reading:

(Listening to, and loving!)

(Fascinating!)

These ought to keep me going this week!

Have a wonderful reading week!  Thanks for stopping by!