{"id":5375,"date":"2012-04-11T01:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2012-04-11T01:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T06:46:27","slug":"great-books-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/great-books-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Vote for Me!<\/a>
\nby\u00a0Ben Clanton (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> It’s election time again. The donkey wants your vote. So does the elephant. And each will do just about anything to win your support…<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong>
\nDONKEY:
\nHey, you!
\nYes, YOU with the great hair and that dazzling smile.
\nListen, you should–<\/p>\n

ELEPHANT:
\nDON’T LISTEN TO THAT DONKEY!
\nYou’re too smart for that.
\nYou’ll want to…<\/p>\n

BONUS!<\/em><\/strong> See the video<\/a>!<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HfZikbt7uiY]
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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fracture<\/a>
\nby Megan Miranda (Author)
\n272 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine — despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she’s far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can’t control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong>
\nThe first time I died, I didn’t see God.
\nNo light at the end of the tunnel. No haloed angels. No dead grandparents.
\nTo be fair, I probably wasn’t a shoo-in for Heaven. But honestly, I kind of assumed I’d make the cut.<\/p>\n

BONUS!<\/em><\/strong> See the video<\/a>!<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fd5rUSMoYdI]
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5 More Great Earth Day Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration<\/a>
\nby Alyssa Satin Capucilli (Author)
\nBiscuit the little yellow puppy goes to school for Earth Day.\u00a0Easy reader<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Earth Day<\/a> (On My Own Holidays)
\nby Linda Lowery (Author) and Mary Bergherr (Illustrator)
\nLearn about how Earth Day started. Easy Reader<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Earth Day<\/a>
\nby Margaret McNamara (Author) and Mike Gordon (Illustrator)Lloyd G. Douglas (Author)
\nWhat can Emma do for Earth Day? Level 1 easy reader<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Let’s Get Ready for Earth Day<\/a>
\nby Lloyd G. Douglas (Author)
\nDan and his class get ready for Earth Day. Easy reader<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sid the Science Kid: Earth Day Fun<\/a>
\nby Jennifer Frantz (Author)
\nSid is going to plant a tree for Earth Day, but first, he wants to know…what is dirt? Level 1 easy reader<\/em>.
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STEM Haiku<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Share your own haiku<\/a> about a STEM topic during National Poetry Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Go Away, Bugs!<\/em>
\nOh bugs, bugs, bugs, who
\nsaid you could come in? This is
\nmy house, not yours. Scram!
\n\u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen<\/em>
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Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

How To Search Google By Reading Level<\/a> (via @eBookNewser)
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\"Site<\/a> Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture Book of the Day Vote for Me! by\u00a0Ben Clanton (Author, Illustrator) Booktalk: It’s election time again. The donkey wants your vote. So does the elephant. And each will do just about anything to win your support… Snippet: DONKEY: Hey, you! Yes, YOU with the great hair and that dazzling smile. Listen, you should– ELEPHANT: … 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":[6,9,12,14,17,22,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-easy-readers","category-education","category-literacy","category-picture-book-of-the-day","category-poetry-month","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","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=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}