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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks Free-eBooks.net | Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more books 30 Teen Book Bloggers, Bookstagrammers, + BookTubers You Should Follow I love it when I meet teenagers who read. As a lover of books, especially young adult books, I enjoy hearing what teens think of stories that are written for them. Teenagers are our future generation of leaders, inventors, writers, and thinkers. As a teacher, I’ve met so many young people who are intelligent, creative, analytical, and thoughtful. It’s time to amplify their voices in the book community. The following teen book bloggers and ‘grammers and vloggers have a lot of great things to say about books! Vicky Who Reads Vicky is a book blogger and Bookstagrammer who blogs about YA books.

GUYS READ | Books Listening is a great way to experience a story. Go to Guys Listen to check out more. Click here for some authors we’ve talked to about their books and their process. And click below for some recommendations from some authors we trust. Here are some of my favorite spooky novels (in some cases thrillers or otherwise twisty), and in particular books that influenced me while I was working on Amity! The Haunting of Hill HouseShirley Jackson“The ne plus ultimate haunted house story, I like to think of Amity‘s Gwen as sort of a modern spin on Eleanor, a young woman seeing and experiencing ghostly things, whose mind and perceptions can’t be trusted.” The OutsidersS.E. designed this website. Lou Gehrig, Boy of the SandlotsGuernsey Van Riper Jr.I think this is the first book I ever picked out on my own and read by myself. Jeffrey Brown lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons. photo credit: Jill Liebhaber The Complete Tales Of Winnie-The-PoohA.A. is an illustrator and a writer.

Book Club Buddy - Where book readers and authors connect and book clubs thrive! 12 sites where you can read full books online If you buy an item via this post, we may get a small affiliate fee. Details. To enjoy reading books, you don’t need a tablet or e-reader. You can read entire books online, completely legally, in an internet browser on your computer. The internet is the ultimate tool for finding answers and items we need. The best thing is that you don’t have to wait for delivery. World’s most beloved classics are available online for free. Institutions like Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive digitize public domain books and make them available for free through their online catalogs. Unless you are determined to create a stunningly large personal collection of ebooks, you don’t have to deal with copying and converting files. But what “read books online” means exactly? A dedicated device, such as a Kindle e-readerA tablet with a book reading app installedAn ebook reader application on your computerAn extension for your internet browser The free previews account for approximately 15% of the paid book. 1.

Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg Collaborative Year-End Projects E Is for End of the Year The close of the school year means having students reflect on what they’ve learned, whether it’s through journaling, scrapbooking, drawing pictures, or making videos. Michelle Lundy, who teaches middle school social studies in Thomaston, Georgia, took a cue from the younger grades and asked her students to create alphabet books recounting the topics they’d studied that year. Stage a TV Contest Engage your students by letting them participate in a TV-like competition, similar to American Idol. Survive and Thrive Ask students to think about the things they wish they’d known or that they loved experiencing in their current grade. Stage a Service Project Enlist your students in supporting a local cause that is important to them, whether it’s collecting canned goods for a food pantry, pet food for an animal shelter, or books for a library or school in need. Create a Time Capsule Students love the idea of leaving a part of themselves behind for posterity. Go On the Hunt

Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century The Online Books Page Our 4th Grade #BookBento Project! I have seen people post about #BookBentos a lot this year. I love following all of the libraries and classrooms posting.... ...on Twitter and Instagram using #bookbento. They are all super inspiring and fun to see and share. which has amazing examples and inspiration like this one. kicked off #BookBentos at Van Meter with her students. We were so excited to not only do this project together, but to learn more about #BookBento too. We put together these slides to share with our students. First, we talked to them about what a Bento Box was and shared stories of eating sushi and other things out of these amazing little boxes that originate from Japan and other Asian countries. We explained to our students this is what we would be doing with our #BookBento project, but focusing on books we have read and the elements wrapped around the book and our feelings and reflections as readers. We then showed the 4th graders lots of examples from ones we found online and the @BookBento Instagram.

Short Stories at East of the Web A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages

ChestofBooks.com: Read Books Online for Free Creating Back-To-The Library Bookmarks! We have been getting our library ready for Back-to-School Night and the first days of school. Jessica, Diana and I can't wait to greet all of the students, teachers and families next week as we kick off an amazing new year in the Van Meter Library. As we do this, a lot of what we are doing during those first few weeks is building community and sharing the important information about our library. We have created displays, signage, an online newsletter and new library website. In the past, I have created little business sized cards to hand out at the beginning of the year to everyone. And this year we are also going to have an extra special new treat thanks to an idea from my friend and librarian Tiffany Whitehead. On her blog, Tiffany wrote about and shared the most adorable bookmarks to kick off her year too. I loved being able to use Bitmoji to create our friendmoji for our brand new library bookmarks. We ordered our bookmarks from Overprints.com like Tiffany did.

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