Monday Reading Share - Books Loved!

          

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Thanks to Candlewick Press 
for my copy!

         I've read quite a few 'time travel' books through my reading years but never have I had such an unbelievable and mind-blowing view of what can be if only we imagine as Kekla Magoon does in this new book. Meet Delilah Peteharrington, eleven, who enters an adventure full of puzzle pieces that are slowly revealed to her when she visits The Secret Library. She's been having some struggles with her mother, who spends so much time running the family business that she has little time for Delilah, who is called Dally. Dally wants more adventure instead of the after-school economic tutor her mother insists she has. After all, the business has made them wealthy, and someday Dally will need to be ready to take over. Imagine living in a mansion and eating alone, having one's own suite of rooms, and most of the time, now that her beloved grandfather has died, doing everything alone. She also misses her father, long dead from an accident.

         Dally remembers a packet of information Grandpa left that should not be opened until she's twenty-one. But Dally sneaks into his room and breaks into the safe to find it. She receives a map that smart Dally figures out leads to "a field"? As she walks into that field, a building appears, the Secret Library. It offers the adventure that Dally wanted,  both frightening and surprising moments, too, which will cause readers to read faster. They'll want to know what next secret Dally has discovered. And, like me, they'll never guess the amazing ending. Shh! Don't tell if you already know! It's a new and fabulous tale from Kekla Magoon!

 

Thanks to Candlewick Press 
for my copy!

        Maisy leads the way to show the youngest readers all about bees, in a fun and colorful "Explore and Learn" board book. It's those 5 W's and H about bees: Who they Are, What they need (and love), Where they can be found,  How they help, Who helps them, How they work in and out of their hives. For a basic book for young readers, it's packed with infomration and quite appealing in its presentation! 

     Mahalo to Kaylin Melia George for this story poem, answering the question "What did HULA teach her?" in various parts as a young girl watches the history through the absolutely gorgeous paintings by Mae Waite. There are several amazing double-page spreads that show so much detail from the story. Kaylin also adds a pronunciation guide and a glossary at the back of the book. Here's one brief example: "From her perch in the clouds,/she watched all that had been,/while the islands exhaled–/breathing out, breathing in." 

           Because of Katey Howe's sad and sudden passing, it took me a few weeks to get this book because of many holds at the library. It is certainly one that shouldn't be missed. Among all the arts, she, with lustrous, almost seemed to be woven illustrations by Dinara Mirtalipova, offers poems that show the history of weaving in our world. From the perspective of a young girl, we learn about weaving throughout history, and it connects us to all parts of that world's history. She includes eight examples of weaving history throughout the world. 

           The back matter includes nonfiction content on the history of weaving and how weaving works, as well as an Author's and Illustrator's Note.

a re-read

       Yes, it's an older book. If you haven't read it, or re-read it lately, maybe it's time. It's alarming to read about just one family, one girl, to see what happens to them during the Holocaust. They are not Jewish, but German, living as best they can, often hungry, and then a young Jewish son from a connection years ago arrives at their doorstep. What happens then fills their lives, and us readers, too.

What's Next: The Enigma Girls, Candice Fleming