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This is my final completed read of the year and it was a great one. Storm of Steel is a straightforward description of trench warfare in WWI from a German soldier who was wounded multiple times and continued to return to the front until the 7th time after 4 years of fighting. He seldom shirks away from the violence and gore of the battle, yet also expresses respect for the skill of the enemy.

#1001books #memoir #nonfiction #WWI #audiobook

This was a wonderful book focused on Sadia & 2 other Muslim girls, all immigrants to Canada. Mariam has started de-jabbing (changing clothes & removing her headscarf) at school, Sadia is set on continuing to wear hers even as it makes playing basketball more difficult, and Amira is a newly arrived refugee from Syria. Along with their classmates they deal with changing friendships and seeing a wider perspective through a class photography project.

This was a wonderful book about found family, alongside adoption and grief. Willow is a unique and gifted twelve year old girl, and I loved her story.

#MiddleGrade #StudentRecommendation

My 7th graders read this with another teacher and told me it was a great book, so I borrowed it from her to read now that school‘s out. I‘m thoroughly enjoying it, even with the heartbreaking moments.

#MiddleGrade #StudentRecommendation #ReadAndEat

I read this book for a student, and it was an interesting story of personal determination and hard work. There‘s a lot of discussion of basketball, but Willkom was a walk-on player who never actually gets to the point of his playing in a game for Marquette because of his status after a transfer and later choices.

#nonfiction #audiobook #StudentRecommendation

This short book is an interesting perspective on WWII and the Holocaust. The author collected stories from survivors, mostly children at the time, about their pets. As one would expect there are a few happy stories of the pets that survived while waiting for their people to come back home but many sad stories of pets that did not survive. All of them emphasize the bond of love between people and their pets.

#StudentRecommendation #Nonfiction

I read this for a student, and it was a light YA romance with little substance. It made me chuckle a few times, but it was also very predictable.

#YA #StudentRecommendation

Great YA fantasy! I‘ve been meaning to read this for a while and it did not disappoint.

#YA #StudentRecommendation

Reading a few pages on the way to this afternoon‘s quiz bowl matches. This book was recommended by one of my students a while ago and I‘ve promised to finally read it before the end of our season.

#YA #StudentRecommendation

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 The Power of the Dog #LitsyBookClub
🎧 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 The Autumn of the Patriarch
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Coriolanus #ShakespeareReadalong
📖 Six of Crows #StudentRecommendation

#WeeklyForecast
📖 Continue current reads
🎧 Start #ChapterADay of North & South with #PemberLittens