{"id":4818,"date":"2011-11-02T01:37:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2011-11-02T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:37:40","slug":"great-books-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/great-books-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Super-Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n

by Steven Kroll (Author) and Doug Holgate (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> In this picture book comic<\/em>, Drago wants to enter the Dragon Contest, but he doesn’t know how to fly yet…<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drago tried…<\/p>\n

SFX: (sound effects) flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap!<\/p>\n

DRAGO: HELP!!<\/em><\/p>\n

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5 Great Books About Soldiers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion<\/a><\/p>\n

by Karen Wallace and Richard Platt (Authors)<\/p>\n

Find out more about this famous World War II event. Level 4 easy reader<\/em><\/p>\n

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From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story<\/a><\/p>\n

by Deborah Hopkinson (Author) and Brian Floca (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

A slave boy runs away and joins the Union army. Level 3 easy reader<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hero Dad<\/a><\/p>\n

by Melinda Hardin (Author) and Bryan Langdo (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

A young boy talks about his father, the soldier. Picture book<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pearl Harbor<\/a><\/p>\n

by Stephen Krensky (Author) and Larry Day (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

See how and why the U.S entered the World War II. Level 3 easy reader<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sam the Minuteman<\/a><\/p>\n

by Nathaniel Benchley (Author) and Arnold Lobel (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

A boy helps his father fight the Battle of Lexington. Level 3 easy reader<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Rendering<\/a><\/p>\n

by Joel Naftali (Author)<\/p>\n

288 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Doug Solomon was a normal kid. But that ended once he became wanted for murder. Now he’s being hunted by VIRUS–an evil organization bent on world domination.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Would you do me a favor and leave me a comment saying how you found this blog? You probably searched for my name, except this website isn’t even in the top three thousand search results for “Doug Solomon.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe that’s why you’re here. You think I killed my aunt. You think I’m a fugitive from justice, a homicidal maniac, or a domestic terrorist.<\/em><\/p>\n

A thirteen-year-old driven crazy by video games.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Picture Book Month<\/strong><\/p>\n

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November is Picture Book Month<\/a>! Today’s host is Kelly Milner Halls.<\/p>\n

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Literary Link<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cool Facts About Veterans<\/a> for Grades K-5<\/p>\n

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\"Site<\/a> My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead<\/a> (Viking)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day Super-Dragon by Steven Kroll (Author) and Doug Holgate (Illustrator) Booktalk: In this picture book comic, Drago wants to enter the Dragon Contest, but he doesn’t know how to fly yet… Snippet: Drago tried… SFX: (sound effects) flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! flap! DRAGO: HELP!! _____________________________________________________________________ 5 Great Books … Continue reading Great Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-literacy","category-picture-book-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}