23 Books {A Bottomless Book Bag}

2021 | 192 pages  | 3.25 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-7 I listened to this book and the narrator was great! It is a story about a father and son....

2021 | 416 pages  | 4.5 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-7   This survival adventure story kept me very engaged. I listened to the audio and it was t...

  2021 | 80 pages  | 1 Hour Audio |  Grades K-3   This is a book for the beginning chapter book reader. The main character is a first-grade ...

I had a lot of favorite middle-grade reads this year.  Let me tell you briefly about them in this post. If I have a more detailed blog post,...

2021 | 256 pages  | 3.5 Hours Audio |  Grades 5-7   Ellie is in middle school and is bulled every day for her weight. It comes not just from...

    2019 | 192 pages  | 4 Hours Audio |  Grades 5-8  Karina Chopra is Indian-American and lives in Texas. Her grandfather comes to live with...

    This is my bookshelf of favorite books in 2021 in no particular order.  I read 105 books this year and my goal was 100. Of course, at le...

2021 | 96 pages  | 1 Hour Audio |  Grades 2-4    I highly recommend this book for the younger elementary group of readers.  It is truly a wi...

2021 | 256 pages  | 5 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-8  Sila and her father are struggling.  Sila's mother had to go back to Turkey because of ...

  5 Stars | Erin Soderberg Downing | 2021 | Realistic Fiction | Grades 3-7  | 256 pages  I think this book is perfect for elementary middle-...

  I will admit that I read a lot more adult books this summer, however, I still ended up with 10 terrific books to recommend for a middle-gr...

This summer, I read 10 books that earned four or more stars!  Since I was on vacation over the summer, I did not keep up with writing blog p...

4 Stars | E. L. Shen | 2021 | Realistic Fiction | Grades 4-6  | 272pages  | 4 1/2 Hours Audio     I read this book while I was watching the ...

4 Stars | Nina Hamza | 2021 | Realistic Fiction | Grades 3-7   | 320 pages  | 7  Hours Audio   I preordered this book when I heard it was wr...

4 Stars | Kate Messner | 2020| Mystery | Grades 4-6 | 4.6 Reading Level | 240 pages | 5 Hours Audio I was fascinated with the idea of eating...

  It is July first and time to take a look at my favorite 5 star reads for the first half of the year.  I have been reading a lot of adult f...

  5 Stars | Kirby Larson | Historical Fiction | 2013 | Grade 6 and Up | 240 pages | 4.6 reading level | 6 hours listening time When Hattie B...

  5 Stars | Matt Haig | 2020 | Fantasy Fiction | 304 pages | 9 Hours Audio   I was not sure if I was going to like this book but it turned o...

I got a few new books from a recent Christian Book haul from christianbooks.com and I binge read the following over the weekend.  I loved th...

3.5 Stars | Heather Vogel Frederick | Mystery | Grades 4-8 | 5th Grade Reading Level | Around 350 pages This is a cozy mystery series for mi...

  4 Stars |Julia Billet | 2020| Graphic Novel | Grades 3-7| 3.7 Reading Level | 176 pages This graphic novel is based on a true story about ...