Bluebonnet Season

Technically speaking, the entire year is Bluebonnet season in the library for some reason. If you're not familiar with the Bluebonnet Award, check out this explanation of the awesome reading program that doesn't have much to do with the actual flower.

The students will not vote for the Bluebonnet award until January or perhaps February, if the weather is as bad as it was last year. Before voting can take place at our school, the kids must have completed the following tasks:

1. read a minimum of 5 books
2. checked off the books on our tracking sheets
3. written summaries for the books they read--NOT reviews

Carrie will be teaching them about summaries soon, which we are both excited for. When a kid loves a book, you think it would be easy for them to be able to summarize it or at least pick out the most exciting parts to tell about. Most of the time, though, its just a bunch of words like "like", "good", "funny", "cool", etc. We're hoping they learn how to veer from this and be able to summarize appropriately.

It might be a tad early but I'm going to start reading the 2015-2016 Bluebonnet selections.  Like, this year's are cool and all, but...I'm wanting read some new stuff. I always make a promise to myself that I'm going to read at least 5 books like the kids are required to but that has totally not happened. I cannot seem to get a moment to make my own dinner let alone read another book on top of my textbooks.

Help. Me.

Since I dropped a class this quarter, I should be a little bit more relaxed in some regards and maybe will be awake enough to comprehend a book that does not have film theory language strewn through it. That being said, I'm starting with two of the 15-16 Bluebonnets that are right up my alley--

THE GRAPHIC NOVELS!

I'm starting with two Bluebonnets that also happen to be graphic novels, The Adventures of Salem Hyde #1 and The Great American Dust Bowl. Salem Hyde looks absolutely adorable, and from what I gather its about a little witch ala Sabrina who is up to mischief. The second is way more serious and potentially too advanced for some of our kids, but The Great American Dust Bowl is an important port of the Southwest's history. Or is Oklahoma part of the plains? Whatev!

I'll be posting my reviews to my little gn blog, so I'll post the link when I'm finished with those. 

Happy reading :)

Christine