OK, Kids, you asked for it! Here is where you can post your own book recommendations for each other! Just post them as a comment to this post! I can’t wait to hear what you are reading and loving!!
Mrs. Spisak
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Cuban-born Michael Arroyo is a phenomenal little league baseball player. One day he hopes to play for the pros, but for this year, he is hoping his Bronx little league team can make it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At 12 years old, this is his last chance. Michael is so good that players and coaches from other teams begin to question his age. What will happen to Michael if he can’t get a copy of his birth certificate from Cuba? In addition to this difficulty, Michael and his brother Carlos have been keeping a secret. Their father died in March and they are trying to make it on their own until Carlos turns 18 in nine months. I loved this story!
Mrs. Spisak
Tags: baseball, Bronx, Cuba, death, family, fiction, friends, little league, Mike Lupica, New York, realistic fiction, secret, spanish, Yankees
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Shortly after moving to Florida, India Opal Buloni adopts a dog she names Winn-Dixie, after the supermarket where she finds him. Winn-Dixie becomes her first true friend. Soon after, she begins to make many unusual friends who help her deal with the loss of her mother. Very sweet story.
Mrs. Spisak
Tags: dog, fiction, Florida, grief, Kate DiCamillo, realistic fiction
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Georgia Nicholson’s journal is laugh-out-loud funny! Her story takes place over the course of one year and details her interesting views on life, her interest in one particular guy, and her most embarrassing moments. This is the first of multiple books about Georgia’s crazy life. This book made me laugh so loud when I was on a plane that my husband made me put it away! He was too embarrassed!
Mrs. Spisak
Tags: fiction, funny, girls, growing-up
