Summer Reading Round 3

I also loves this book!  I wish I had read this before the school year had ended- I know just whose hands I would have put this into.   Jacob S, if you're checking this blog over the summer, you MUST read this book!  

This book has so much heart!  

The story takes places in the 1960's in Memphis, Tn and is told in first person by a boy who struggles with stuttering. He takes over his best friend's paper route for the month of July, and is forced to communicate with the customers.  He encompasses many challenges, the worst being with a junk man who turns out to be a thief.  Learn how he and his nanny, mam, survive a dangerous confrontation.  

Summer Reading Round 2 1/2

After reading Endangered and Threatened, I remembered a book that I have ordered with book order bonus points and hadn't actually gotten arou

D to reading yet.  A majority of the kids had read it and highly recommended it and so I dug into it next.  I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this delightful realistic fiction story based on the true story of a mall gorilla, Ivan.  The story is told In first person perspective through the eyes of Ivan.  Ivan is a gorilla that was captured as a baby and raised as a pet by humans.  When he was too large to care for, a cage at a mall became his new home, along with a few other animals.  

Ivan is an artist and uses his skills to fulfill a promise he made to his friend.  Learn how Ivan rescues a Stella, a baby elephant from her captive life in the decrepit mall.

Summer Reading Round 2

I love, love, LOVED these books by Eliot Schrefer! 

Endangered takes you into the heart of The Congo, where Congolese-American Sophie, whose mother runs a bonobos sanctuary, takes you on an adventure through the jungle admidst wartime to find her Mother and save a young bonobo.  I simply could not put it down! 

Threatened takes us back into the jungle where orphaned Luc has been rescued from an abusive orphanage by Prof who hires him to help study chimpanzees.  Things don't go as planned and Luc must learn to live among the chimpanzees in order to survive.  Again... I could not put it down!

See the tweet below as I'm anxiously awaiting...

for Eliot Schefer's next book released next fall!