Hi Everyone!
Over the past three months, I've been busy reading and reviewing books for the state's Bluestem Award for students in grades 3-5. Those of us on the reading committee, from all over the state, had to read 50 books from September through January! On January 29th, all of us met to discuss the books that we read and decide which 20 would make the final cut. We had some very interesting conversations during our meeting, but we finally selected the books for the list. You can see the list of books for 2012 here: www.islma.org/pdf/BluestemMasterList2012.pdf. Now I'm back on this blog again. I hope you will send me your book reviews to post as well (see Emily's reviews below for examples)!
