Ms. Yingling Reads

The winner of Peachtree's "Name the Teacher (Fred Bowen Sports Story)" contest is Blendon Middle School's own Jeff McMilla...

Not only mine, the Westerville Public Library, but the Stark County District Library. I try to limit my Interlibrary Loans, but sometimes I ...

Am I the last person on the planet to read Catching Fire ? A student returned it after school, so I got to take it home. And I have to say t...

Thanks to Karen at Literate Lives for reminding me about the Cybils nominations that start on October 1st. It's important that teachers ...

Trying to be better about reading things other than novels. I loved John Grandits' Technically, It's Not My Fault , and just ordered...

Melissa Kantor had her publicist send me the very first ARC's I ever got, so she has a special place in my heart. If you are near NYC, o...

S uzanne Selfors' newest book sat in my pile for a while. There was something about the cover or title that just didn't appeal to ...

Jan Michael's City Boy is a book that I must order, so that I may hand it to children who think their life is difficult. In Malawi, Sa...

I was really enjoying Jessica Blank's Karma for Beginners , but then decided it was more of a high school book and tore myself away to r...

Sue Corbett did the wonderful Twelve Again and Free Baseball . Her latest, The Last Newspaper Boy in America , was something I had to read...

I spend an inordinate amount of time standing in fields watching children run. My two oldest children run for school cross country teams, an...

I envy the public libraries yellow "new" tape-- I just tell new books by whether or not they have the structural integrity left to...

Lara Zielin's first novel Donut Days was lots of fun, even though it covered serious issues. Emma's life is in turmoil because her ...

What should middle school readers read? Children's books? Young adult novels? Adult literature? Depends on the reader. My own collection...

Also in this Creative Education series are McDonald's, Coca Cola, Disney, Ford, Microsoft and Starbucks. What I like about them is that ...

Hoorah! Ally Carter's newest Gallagher Girls book, Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover arrived in my latest order and was every bit as ...

This just goes to show why I read things. Some reviews make me think that a book will fill a need I have, but sometimes it's not quite r...

Sarah Rees Brennan's first novel, The Demon's Lexicon , was so good that I took my time reading it even though I have a huge pile of...

Tim Bowler's Blade: Playing Dead was the best title of the night, even though I didn't want to like it. The students will be attrac...

Since my daughter had Thoreau's Walden as a choice for her year long journal project, I thought that I would try to read it. Again. I t...