Book Bytes

Hello again 5th grade students!  We have been reading, reading, reading, and have again finished another book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  This is one of my favorite books of all times, and I never mind to read it over and over again.  I hope you liked it as much as I did, [...]

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Hello again! One of my favorite new toys in the world is a website called Animoto. It is a web-based site that allows you to create really cool videos and one of the best things about it is that you can make 30-second videos for FREE! Just upload your images, pick some music and it’s [...]

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Hello, all! I recently acquired a LOT of free time courtesy of Ice Storm ‘09 and I thought I’d try to put some of it to good use. Also, I was inspired by my blog-mate, Mrs. Scott, getting back on the proverbial horse – so to speak. And well, this might actually be a good [...]

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Hello again, my friends!
Book Bytes is back from our summer hiatus!
I’ve been reading lots of interesting titles over the last few months, but the BIGGIE was a certain something that had teenage (and slightly older) girls out past their normal bedtimes. I’m talking nationwide midnight release parties that had nothing to do with a [...]

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What? You mean you have no idea what I’m talking about? You may really be baffled by the end of this post…
If I don’t have at least a couple of copies of Battle of the Labyrinth (the 4th book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) in this library when Rick Riordan shares it with us [...]

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Hello and welcome to our out-of-town guests!
I’m speaking of Mrs. Deena Martin’s 7th grade Reading Class from Jessie Clark Middle School in Lexington, KY. I had the opportunity to visit with them back in the fall and they have recently finished reading a fabbity-fab book called The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I reviewed this book myself WAY back on [...]

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Lewis Carroll created the fantastic world of Wonderland and wrote two very famous novels about a little girl named Alice and her adventures there. According to The Looking Glass Wars, everything that we thought we knew about Alice and Wonderland is wrong — VERY wrong.  
In Frank Beddor’s reinterpretation of these timeless stories, Princess Alyss Heart is forced to flee the [...]

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