SCHOOL LIBRARY OUT LOUD
  • Home
  • About the Librarian
  • Blog
  • Online Learning Resources
    • Copyright With Read Alouds
    • Art
    • Computing
    • Languages
    • Math
    • Miscellaneous
    • Music
    • Phys Ed
    • Reading
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • Special Education
    • Teacher Tools
    • Virtual BreakOut/ Escape Rooms
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Writing
  • Creation Tools
  • Digital Citizenship and Literacy
    • Citing Sources
    • Copyright Friendly Images
  • Fun Sites
  • News and Magazine Sites
  • Online Books and Stories
  • Reference Sources
  • Search Engines
  • Standards

Indian Paintbrush Nominees

In this blog, I will post my reviews of the official Indian Paintbrush Nominees for each year.  These will also be reviewed in my main blog, but I will make a "second" entry here for ease of discovery for those of you who would like to find them quickly. They will be posted in the same order that I read them, with the same dates as the original posts.
Current Indian Paintbrush List

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

5/20/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
In this first book by Ali Benjamin, Stacy is trying to deal with the loss of her best friend--in more ways than just one.  On a class trip to the aquarium, Stacy travels off by herself to the jellyfish exhibit, and she becomes fascinated by the mysterious animals, especially when she learns that there is a kind that can sting you and kill you before you even know you have been stung.  This new knowledge becomes part of her way of coping with the tragedy that befell her friend.  The Thing About Jellyfish (Lexile: 740; Interest Level: Grades 5-8) is a story of dealing with grief, reaching beyond yourself and making new friends.  

Because of the topic, this is a hard book to claim to "like," but there were parts that I really did enjoy and parts that really made me squirm.  Perhaps this is why this book was a National Book Award Finalist and has made it to the 2016-2017 Indian Paintbrush Nominee list.  Readers who loved books such as Love, Aubrey and Eight Keys will find this book engrossing as well. (352 p.)

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    April 2015
    February 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

 This website is created and maintained by Jennisen Lucas.
If there are problems with this website, please contact me by email.
Creative Commons License
Elementary Library Website by jmlucas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created August 2012; Resigned March 16, 2020
  • Home
  • About the Librarian
  • Blog
  • Online Learning Resources
    • Copyright With Read Alouds
    • Art
    • Computing
    • Languages
    • Math
    • Miscellaneous
    • Music
    • Phys Ed
    • Reading
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • Special Education
    • Teacher Tools
    • Virtual BreakOut/ Escape Rooms
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Writing
  • Creation Tools
  • Digital Citizenship and Literacy
    • Citing Sources
    • Copyright Friendly Images
  • Fun Sites
  • News and Magazine Sites
  • Online Books and Stories
  • Reference Sources
  • Search Engines
  • Standards