From the Library

Third graders started off the year figuring out what constitutes a series of books as opposed to random assorted titles by the same author. They decided that books in a series tend to have the same characters. Often the books look alike in size and design, but not always. The girls have been challenged with reading either a whole series or all the books in our collection by one author. These vary from two book series (Tricia Springstubb's What Happened on Fox Street and the sequel Mo Wren, Lost and Found) to the 56 volume Nancy Drew series. We have 14 books, easy to not-so-easy, by Jaqueline Woodson. We have 13 by Grace Lin. If girls are interested in taking this author study challenge, I will help them find a just right author. A terrific series for reading aloud at home is Sara Pennypacker's Clementine series.