Hello Readers! Welcome to Day Six of The 12 Days of Books. The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury is a Christmas book for all of you bibliophiles. It is sweet, sappy, and involves saving a local bookstore. What could be more appealing? Molly Allen lives in Portland and Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville. The two used…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Five of The 12 Days of Books! All children can be wonderful and all children can be nightmares. In The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, six nasty, manipulative children take over a church Christmas pageant. The Herdman kids (Imogene, Claude, Ralph, Leroy, Ollie, and Gladys) are a…
Hello Readers, Welcome to the Day Four of The 12 Days of Books! Christmas is a time for celebration and joy. It is a time for reflection. It is a time to be thankful for the many blessings in your life. It is a time to laugh with friends. It is a time to gather…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Three of The 12 Days of Books! Have your travel plans ever been derailed? You think you’ll get to your connection in plenty of time, but the LIRR is delayed (as usual), the runway is icy, or your car has a flat tire and suddenly you have to improvise and…
Hello Readers! Welcome to Day 2 of The 12 Days of Books. The Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center is at the heart of Christmas in New York. If you have ever visited Rockefeller Center, you know that it is packed with tourists at Christmastime. Even though everyone knows it’s a tourist trap from Thanksgiving to…
Hello Readers! Welcome to The 12 Days of Books – 12 Days highlighting our literary favorites, an annual tradition here at The Write Teacher(s). Published by Bradbury and Evans in December of 1845, The Cricket on the Hearth is a delightful, domestic Christmas novel by Charles Dickens. Serving as a baromoter for the Peerybingle household,…
“Anyone who doesn’t treasure the idea of being friends is either a cat or someone who recently became obsessed with home-brewing beer and can’t shut up about it.” (p. 100) You Blew It: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life (one of our October picks) by Josh Gondleman…
Hello Readers, I have always loved the theatre. Each production is magical in its own way. Having been in the audience, on stage, and behind the scenes, I have a unique appreciation for each aspect of the theatre and jump at any chance I get to attend or be a part of a production. When…
Hello Readers, In Dream Things True (one of our September picks) Marie Marquardt crafted a beautiful story while simultaneously highlighting an issue that has been contentious for years and one that the media is constantly discussing as the 2016 presidential primaries take place: immigration. The story is a teenage love story. Two people from two…
“And that’s all show business is, really. Transitioning panics.” – p. 83 I loved Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) so when I saw she had a new book coming out, I immediately added it to my “To Read” list. Why Not Me? (one of our September picks) proved to…