Spring Break question of the week

The Question of the Week is: What did you do over Spring Break?

You can read about what I did over Spring Break in the post below. :)

Please cast your vote in the poll located in the right hand column of the blog. :)

Spring Break reading

I can't believe it is already Saturday... Spring Break went by very quickly.

I enjoyed Spring Break for two reasons:
1) escaping Illinois to someplace WARM! (Arizona)
2) having extra time to read :)

I had a student recommend The Comeback Season by Jennifer Smith to me. This was the first book I read on Spring Break. I LOVED this book. The other exciting thing about this book is that the author grew up in the area - I think in Lake Bluff - how neat is that? :) It is a great story of friendship, perseverance, and the Chicago Cubs.

from Barnes and Noble:
The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing. She's not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it's been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she's finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this -- the fifth anniversary of his death -- it feels like there's nowhere else in the world she should be.
Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: "Wait till next year." Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?


The next book I read was Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. It was just as good as the first book in this trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty). I think I said it in a previous post, but this series is great for fans of Twilight. I have already started on the third book by Libba Bray. :)

Rebecca Caudill 2008 winner

This was just announced! The winner of the 2008 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award is: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick. It is a great book. :)

The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky

I heard about this book in one of the journals that I read to find out about new and great books. I had it in the LMC so I quickly read it. It was fascinating! The author shares the world history of salt - with interesting facts, neat illustrations, and fun stories. I never thought a book about salt would be so interesting ... but it was. :) This book is based upon the author's adult book Salt: A World History ... that might be next on my reading list! :)

Happy reading! If you read The Story of Salt, comment on this post and let me know how you liked it. :)