A famous football player is also an author. He wrote a series of books for children encouraging them to work hard for their dreams. You can listen to this one by clicking here. https://youtu.be/1_7Ovog6tXE?si=8v40sq3Mg0rldV9O
Category: Book Blurbs – School
Reviews and recommendations for books from the school library.
A picture book by the special author Lois Ehlert that explores the maple tree and fall season. If you want to hear it read go to https://youtu.be/ZcO-tMt44q4?si=acFC3DvL4kEqm0w7
Lucy Peach didn’t know what to say. Who just gave someone a house? Aunt Lucinda, that’s who. How would this gift change their lives. Read the book to find out. Listen to chapter 1 at https://youtu.be/A2p2AgG1cZ8.
Categories
Genre – Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction is a story that takes readers to a time and place in the past. A time of 50 years in the past is a good starting point for how far back to go to claim “historical” as the genre.
Historical fiction is believable by its setting. It is set in a real place, during a recognizable time. The story can be a combination of actual events and from the author’s imagination, as long as all stays in the real place and time. Characters can be based on real people or pure fiction. This requires the author to do diligent research.
How does it feel to leave a home you love and know for a very different environment? Listen to this first chapter of the book to hear what Rigel has to say about such a move. https://youtu.be/YYLwo9N0u8E
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes through the mail, and plays dominoes with her family in their two-room cabin. She doesn’t mind not having electricity or running water—instead, she’s got tall trees, fresh streams, and endless sky.
But then her parents divorce, and Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs to live with a grandmother they’ve never met. Rigel hates it in Connecticut. It’s noisy, and crowded, and there’s no real nature. Her only hope is a secret pact that she made with her father: If she can stick it out in Connecticut for one year, he’ll bring her back home.
A neat little story to share with children about the advantages of doing things slowly. Click here to have the story read to you. https://youtu.be/wI8H5CP5qa4?si=ajt90aBLkt_8tu8A
Click this link to hear the first few entries about the journey of this sixteen year old boy and his family. https://youtu.be/7vhwnlg5LkQ
Henrietta the Chicken, reads “Little Things Make a Big Difference”.
Little Things Make a Big Difference by Rev John Nunes
Little Things Make a Big Difference was written for the purpose of alerting people to the need for mosquito nets in Africa and a program of the church to help provide them to our brothers and sisters to ward off malaria.
A listen to this Historical Fiction novel that takes you to England at the beginning of World War II. First Chapter – click here https://youtu.be/VCFdj2lAYwc.
To hear the first chapter and find out about this book click https://youtu.be/jYrznLlXNQ0
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