This weekend I read The Third Door, a very satisfying ending to an exciting trilogy. It is a perfect book for 5th grade and up fantasy lovers.  It would be a great read aloud too.   I think kids in our class will really like it later on in the year.  There was nothing predictable about the series right up to the very end.  Nothing in the story went as I thought it would, but how the story unfolded was just perfect.  Would you like to go on a quest?  On top of that I think I might have to read the Deltora books again because they are connected somehow and I would like to know if it is people, place or age.

I am in the middle Penelope Crumb by Shawn K. Stout and I am wondering how I feel about her.  I’m still not certain I would like to have her for a friend, but she does seem to be her own person and I think that is a great thing.  I am also reading The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes and I like Billy right from the start.  When the book starts he is beginning second grade, but a few weeks ago, while on a family vacation he fell and hit his head.  The doctor said he was fine, but he heard his parents wondering and now Billy is worrying too.  Will he be smart enough for second grade?  Will he be able to do it?  I can’t wait to bring these books into our classroom.  I wonder who will read them first.

Next up:  Flora and Ulysses, Kelsey Green, Reading Queen and Ship’s Cat Doris.

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