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Category: Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Where Reasons End

  • Posted on December 31, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

I’d started this novel by award-winning Yiyun Li at least five times since it was published in 2019. I finally sat down with it, reading once through and then again to take notes, in early…

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Melissa

  • Posted on December 17, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

I just finished reading the brilliant middle-grade debut, George, by Alex Gino with my sixth graders this winter. The novel is about George embracing her identity as Melissa. The book layers in so much about…

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Starfish

  • Posted on October 24, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

The standing starfish pose is something I demo and offer to students who need an energy boost. It’s an effective stretch, especially right after lunch. The stretch is a signature move for the main character,…

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The Shakespeare Requirement

  • Posted on August 21, 2021
  • by Lauren

I started Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief this summer. I read the first two chapters and set it aside. I couldn’t do it. Not yet. Soon. The grief books are piling up. That’s a…

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Published: What a Children’s Book Taught Me (and My Students) About Grief

  • Posted on July 14, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

Michelle Cuevas’s powerful children’s book, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, features prominently in my essay about navigating grief while preparing for my new role as an English teacher at North Country…

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Published: What’s Your Grief – Books & Broken Hearts

  • Posted on July 9, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren
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The website What’s Your Grief published a piece I wrote this summer. It highlights three contemporary middle-grade books that are ideal for facilitating meaningful conversations and classroom activities about trauma, grief, and loss with students.…

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Grief Books for Grown Ups 2

  • Posted on June 25, 2021June 28, 2021
  • by Lauren
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This is a continuation of the list of books I’ve read during my close and personal relationship with grief since losing my son in 2018: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler…

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Book Reviews

Grief Books for Grown Ups

  • Posted on June 18, 2021June 18, 2021
  • by Lauren
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I remember listening to the audio version of Life after Loss: A Practical Guide to Renewing Your Life After Experiencing Major Loss en route to the airport. It was a library book I downloaded for…

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El Deafo

  • Posted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021
  • by Lauren

This book is considered a graphic novel memoir by author/illustrator Cece Bell. The story follows Cece from age four, when she suffers severe hearing loss as a result of a bout with meningitis, through the…

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The Fourteenth Goldfish

  • Posted on April 30, 2021October 15, 2021
  • by Lauren

After reading The Terrible Two Get Worse, the second in the series by authors Jory John and Mac Barnett with their signature witty and whimsical illustrations, I offered The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm…

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