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Category: Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Books for the Couch or Commute

  • Posted on February 19, 2023
  • by Lauren

I lead a quiet life and reading keeps me steady. Here are a few recommendations:  Oona out of Order by Margarita Montimore. It’s got everything I like in a book: romance, grief, and time travel.…

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Book Reviews

The Inner Pandemic

  • Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023
  • by Lauren

Matt Richtel’s December 2022 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air explained the teen mental health crisis in the U.S. as our “Inner Pandemic” : NPR/Fresh Air While this book is in no way a replacement for therapy,…

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One for the Murphys

  • Posted on June 28, 2022
  • by Lauren

Even though North Country School had to shut down a little early because of that thing that begins with “c” and ends with “d”, the sixth graders and I were able to read One for…

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Published: Oh Reader

  • Posted on May 31, 2022June 18, 2022
  • by Lauren

Grief and growth take center stage in The Third Mushroom, a middle-grade novel by the talented Jennifer L. Holm that serves as a follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish, a book I shared with my first…

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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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