Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Seven of The 12 Days of Books! Today’s highlight is trip down memory lane for any girl who grew up in the 80s and 90s when the American Girl dolls hit the scene! The Pleasant Company’s original five girls: Felicity, Kirsten, Addy, Samantha, and Molly captured the hearts of young…
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12 Days of Books – Day Six
Hello Readers! Welcome to Day Six of The 12 Days of Books. The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury is a Christmas book for all of you bibliophiles. It is sweet, sappy, and involves saving a local bookstore. What could be more appealing? Molly Allen lives in Portland and Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville. The two used…
12 Days of Books – Book Five
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Five of The 12 Days of Books! All children can be wonderful and all children can be nightmares. In The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, six nasty, manipulative children take over a church Christmas pageant. The Herdman kids (Imogene, Claude, Ralph, Leroy, Ollie, and Gladys) are a…
12 Days of Books – Day Three
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Three of The 12 Days of Books! Have your travel plans ever been derailed? You think you’ll get to your connection in plenty of time, but the LIRR is delayed (as usual), the runway is icy, or your car has a flat tire and suddenly you have to improvise and…
12 Days of Books – Day One
Hello Readers! Welcome to The 12 Days of Books – 12 Days highlighting our literary favorites, an annual tradition here at The Write Teacher(s). Published by Bradbury and Evans in December of 1845, The Cricket on the Hearth is a delightful, domestic Christmas novel by Charles Dickens. Serving as a baromoter for the Peerybingle household,…