Showing posts with label book recommendations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book recommendations. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2020

Iroquois Middle School Reads!

As our building closure continues, I long for the days of striking up a casual conversation about favorite book titles while browsing the shelves.  However, thanks to the technology afforded to us through Iroquois, our community of readers can still stay connected to discuss favorite book titles!  It just took a little creativity to get the ball rolling.

Every two weeks, students and staff from Iroquois Middle School have been meeting via Microsoft Teams video chat in order to share reading recommendations and anything else of interest.  So far, we have had three chats where dozens of titles have been discussed.

On May 22nd, we will be hosting a special Virtual Book Club meeting on the Library Teams page.  All are welcome to discuss the touching and humorous Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling. The audiobook is available now through Sora!


After each chat, I have been compiling a list of all of the recommended titles from our Iroquois readers.  This keeps my own "to be read" list growing, but thankfully the digital copies of many of these books can be found online through our school's Sora subscription.

Here are the titles from our last three chats.  See any on here that you've read or would like to read?




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