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Weekend Pick for September 27, 2024

9/27/2024

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Weekend Pick for September 27, 2024

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Jenny Cameron Paulsen

Our September contributor is 
a thirty-year teaching veteran Jenny Cameron Paulsen, who educates middle schoolers in American History and English in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has served as an ALAN state representative and member of the Amelia Walden Award committee. In 2023, she served as the Iowa History Teacher of the Year. 
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​The Promise of Lost Things by Helene Dunbar


​I was thrilled to return to the misty world of St. Hilaire from Ms. Dunbar‘s beautiful
Prelude for Lost Souls, which lingered in my mind long after I turned the last page in 2020.  Romantic, heartbreaking and mysterious, the narrative weaves a potent spell in this extraordinary meditation on love and grief, on what haunts us and what makes us human. Russ Griffin, Ian Mackenzie, Willow Rogers, and Asher Mellon are fully realized characters in all their hopes and flaws.
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​It was easy to get lost in their surprising world of vengeful ghosts and troubled mediums, desperate tourists and haunted ghost hunters dealing with love and loss, the lure of revenge and the finality of death. Nothing less than the continued existence of St. Hilaire as a haven for mediums and hope for those wishing to contact the departed hangs on the choices of these four teens. This book is perfect for paranormal mystery lovers and readers looking for a sweet LBGTQIA+ romance. 
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You will discover more books by Helene Dunbar if you visit here website
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Weekend Pick for September 20, 2024

9/20/2024

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Weekend Pick for September 20, 2024

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Jenny Cameron Paulsen

Our September contributor is a thirty-year teaching veteran Jenny Cameron Paulsen, who educates middle schoolers in American History and English in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has served as an ALAN state representative and member of the Amelia Walden Award committee. In 2023, she served as the Iowa History Teacher of the Year. 

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan
If you’re a fan of Percy Jackson, this book is a delightful diversion for the weekend. It’s fun, breezy, and lighthearted. The stakes for the quest are low: Percy must get recommendation letters from three gods to get into new Rome University. The world won’t end if they fail, but Percy might not get into his preferred college, and that can feel like the end of the world to a senior. The friendships with Annabeth and Grover remain strong and healthy. It’s nice to see Percy‘s mom in a happy relationship. The writing is witty. I quite enjoyed this long-awaited, humorous return to Percy Jackson’s world. It’s a refreshing break from the doom and gloom of save-the-world quest stories. Clocking in at just 268 pages, it’s a quick reading snack. If you find yourself hungry for more, you’re in luck, because the second book in the three book series comes out September 28. ​
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Check out Read Riordan website for more exciting book choices.

Happy reading! 
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Weekend Pick for September 13, 2024

9/13/2024

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Weekend Pick for September 13, 2024

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Our September contributor is a thirty-year teaching veteran Jenny Cameron Paulsen, who educates middle schoolers in American History and English in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has served as an ALAN state representative and member of the Amelia Walden Award committee. In 2023, she served as the Iowa History Teacher of the Year. ​
The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game Volume I) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
After reading The Hunger Games, I wasn’t sure Suzanne Collins could top it. Then Catching Fire blew me away with its ingenuity. I felt the same way after finishing The Inheritance Games series. In this first book of the sequel series, Jennifer Lynn Barnes does not disappoint. A psychological thriller of enticing intensity, The Grandest Game takes place in the world built in The Inheritance Games series, of which The Brothers Hawthorne is recommended reading to truly understand this book. 
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Chock full of intrigue, logic, puzzles, and romantic tension, this book is hard to put down as the characters compete to win a life-changing fortune. Fans of the inheritance series will enjoy getting to know twin siblings Gigi and Savannah Grayson, as well as their half brother Grayson Hawthorne better in this book. Other characters from The Brothers Hawthorne who get compelling storylines are Rohan, who grew up in a secret underworld club, and Lyra who is haunted by her father’s death at the hands of a Hawthorne.

If you like a rollercoaster ride of a book, and solving a mystery layered within more mysteries, this book could be for you!
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Weekend Pick for September 6, 2024

9/6/2024

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Weekend Pick for September 6, 2024

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​Welcome our September guest-contributor to the Weekend Picks! Jenny Cameron Paulsen, a thirty-year teaching veteran, educates middle schoolers in American History and English in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has served as an ALAN state representative and member of the Amelia Walden Award committee. In 2023, she served as the Iowa History Teacher of the Year.

Realm Breaker Series by Victoria Aveyard
Apocalyptic dystopian high fantasy? Check. Lord of the Rings quest vibe? Check. A villainous queen with ambitions worthy of Lady Macbeth? Check. A female pirate’s fierce daughter who is the only hope for saving the world as she knows it? Check, check, and check! If any of this piques your interest, then this remarkable series is for you! Corayne an-Amarat, a strong and brilliant young woman, is the brains behind her mother’s wildly successful pirating enterprise in the kingdom of Allward. When a deadly foe from another realm destroys a neighboring kingdom, she joins forces with the remaining two survivors, a squire and an immortal, to fight for their world. Along the way, others join their cause including assassins, a bounty hunter, a mysterious witch, and a fallen priest. 


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This exciting series hooked me from the start and stayed on my mind long after I finished. Refreshing in its diversity of characters, with multiple powerful females driving the conflicts, this series about an unlikely group of companions pitted against the forces of evil does not disappoint.
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My thanks to Iowa State professor, Dr. Missy Springsteen-Haupt, whose observation of this connection enticed me to read the series!
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    Leilya Pitre, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Southeastern Louisiana University. She teaches methods courses for preservice teachers, linguistics, American and Young Adult Literature courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Her research interests include teacher preparation, secondary school teaching, and teaching and research of Young Adult literature. Together with her friend and colleague, Mike Cook, she co-authored a two-volume edition of Teaching Universal Themes Through Young Adult Novels (2021). Her latest edited and co-authored book, Where Stars Meet People: Teaching and Writing Poetry in Conversation (2023) invites readers to explore and write poetry.

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