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Tweens Charlotte Lockard and Ben Boxer play Scrabble with each other online. They are both word wizards and both are navigating the jungle of middle school in different cities, 1000+ miles apart. Slowly they begin to realize how much more they have in common, mostly that each needs a solid friend 🩵

#20in4Readathon Day 4
#Rushathon Day 2

I loved this book! It really shows how two far-away people can connect and become friends, through today's technology. I would recommend to anybody who loves making good friends!
#bolducbookworms

Read this as a family. The story is about two tweens that play online scrabble together. They both are having family and friend problems. There is nothing compelling about the plot, characters, or writing. It's boring at times and annoying at times. My boys didn't enjoy it either.

I love quirky characters but these two were overly precocious. As far as a resolution, there was none. It was slightly torturous. I listened to this on audio and the narrator made all of the middle school girls except the main character sound like valley girls....does anyone even remember those?

Sweet middle grade book that had a lot of fun Scrabble references, definitions, and internet "rabbit holes", but the relationship between the two characters played far less a role than I anticipated they would. One thing this book does nail is the anxiety over navigating changes in friendships.

What a great book for middle grade readers! The story is great and I loved how Lottie goes “through the rabbit hole” when she is researching topics. Some very deep topics like bullying, fitting in, divorce, etc. Four 🌟. Only because I feel as if the story ended very quickly and I wanted to know more!

1. Quote prints, T-shirt‘s, books, gift cards to book stores
2. Hosting Christmas for my family & friends.
3. Didn‘t make a goal this year. 2019 will be my year🤗
4. Elf or a Christmas Story! 🎅
#friyayintro @howjessreads

📚📚On to the next one, let‘s hope this one is a good as the last book I read! 📚📚

The temperatures are dropping, so M and I are both curled up reading on her new daybed, since her bedroom is one of the warmest rooms in the house. ☺️

She has homework to do, but neither of us feels like going downstairs to get it. 😂😂

M is home with a cold, this is her reading stack for the day.

I am trying not to stress...of all weeks, today I get tons of homework for my class. We have to be out of the house all day Wed for a new roof installation (Hurricane/hail damage)...Wed also happens to be a 1/2 day of school.

My sis exp. a traumatic event Sat.😢

Part of our neighbor‘s tree fell on our freshly repaired fence last night.

This is not the Chanukah I was expecting. 😩

You Go First is my first completed book for #24in48 and it was enjoyable. I liked the characters, but wish there had been more of a connected storyline rather than two parallel stories that only intersect once in awhile.

Middle School is tough—some might say it sucks—and Charlotte & Ben, friends via an online Scrabble game, have to navigate this world while also dealing with family drama. The connection between Ben & Charlotte is not as well done as it could have been, but their struggles with family, friendship, bullying, & being a little different as well as, finally, their successes are handled well & ultimately make this a satisfying MG read. Recommended.

Running for student council is hard enough...coming up with the perfect joke for your speech is even harder! (I love Ben‘s thought processes!)

Another MG book to preview, this one by Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly. Two middle school students—Charlotte and Ben—who live 1,000 miles apart connect via an online Scrabble game. As they navigate various middle school challenges as well as family drama, they form an unlikely friendship. Sounds good, right? Definitely enjoying what I‘ve read so far.

Next up is the new book from Newbery-medal-winning (!!!) Erin Entrada Kelly! #MiddleGradeMay

The author did a great job of addressing several of the issues middle school children deal with in a believable manner. Ben (11) and Charlotte (12) live in separate states and have never met. They both are very intelligent and met online and play Scrabble together. Neither has a friend to turn to when they have problems. The book covers one week in the life of these two as they tackle the challenges of being a teenager.

🌼You Go First by Erin Kelly and I‘m anxious to finally tackle American Gods by Neil Gaiman
🌸oh yes thank goodness and it starts Friday!!!
🌹Daisies and Sunflowers but if I don‘t say my daughter Alice Rose who thinks she‘s a rose then I may get the awful mommy guilt trip
🌻chocolate! Chocolate! Did someone say chocolate????
#manicmonday
@JoScho

I love the scrabble as floatations devices.

April 10.

#CoverLove #MGedition