Fiction Friday!

One of my favorite bloggy friends is hosting a great new series called Fiction Friday! Amanda's goal is to share great new (or old) fiction for kids.  My Amazon list is growing every week! Head over to the Teaching Thief and get some great suggestions.

My first pick is Stuck by Oliver Jeffers.  This is a picture book for kids of all ages (including grown-ups)!  This is a cute story about a boy whose kite gets stuck in a tree and his unique way of getting it "unstuck."  Love this one!

I first heard this book when my co-operating teacher during student teaching was reading it aloud to her 4th graders.  I read it aloud to my class for the first time and they loved it.  This is the story of a young boy named Marty.  Marty is really close to his Gramps who just moved to a nursing home.  In this story, Marty deals with this big change in his life by writing letters to dead people.  It gets really interesting when they start writing back!

*Note: This book is out of print but it can be purchased used for $0.01 at Amazon!

Favorite October Read Alouds

 Mrs. Parker is having a linky party about favorite books to read in October.  You know I had to join in the fun!  I love seasonal books!  Here are my picks for October.

My Favorite Books

Mrs. Runde is having a linky party about favorite books! I could not resist! Here are some of my favorites:

Childhood Favorites:
My mom and I read together a lot when I was little.  Some of my favorites include Agatha's Feather bed, a Robert Munsch book called Purple, Green, and Yellow, and another one called Christina Katerina and the Time She Quit the Family.  My favorite book that I read by myself is Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons.  Oh and I also love love Harry Potter and the Austin Family series by Madeline L'Engle.
                  

Classroom Favorites: I love to read anything by Patricia Polacco to my students.  My all time favorite book to read aloud to my students The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.  This is the sweetest story about a china rabbit who learns to love.  It is so beautifully written. This year we had an Edward Tulane day when we finished the book.  Check out my pictures from it and my related products on TpT.
    

Professional Favorites:
  I love teacher books! Some of my favorites include Setting Limits in the Classroom and of course The Book Whisperer.

Guilty Pleasures:
  I have a lot of these and some are quite embarrassing.  I love the Twilight books-I hate to admit it but I do! I also enjoy the Stephanie Plum series and James Patterson's Women's Murder Club. 

Read Alouds for Fall

Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I love love love children's books.  I have a whole room in my apartment filled with them! You can imagine how excited I was to find a linky party about what else...children's books! Learning with Mrs. Parker is having a linky party about read alouds for fall and back to school.  Here are some of the books I like to read aloud in the fall:

This is a great book about being yourself and standing up to bullies.  My students love the pictures in this one!





This is a classic and one of the first chapter books I read aloud to my 4th graders.  They think Fudge is funny and they can relate to some of the issues Peter goes through- dealing with siblings, working on school projects, and being a 4th grader!



I like to read this book at the start of the year as well.  It is about a classroom hamster and his observations.  He has a very fun personality and helps out his classmates!










I like to read this book over several days during the first week of school.  It features children from all over the world and tells about their daily life including how they are educated.  My kids enjoy hearing about how different these characters are from them.  It is also a good way to introduce Venn Diagrams.








The last book I am including is one that my uncle gave me when I was a little girl.  I love the play on words in this book! My kids like the sidebar pictures that go along with the story.  Agatha gets a new feather bed but has some trouble when some geese show up and want their feathers back!