Teach Mentor Texts: It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/8/13

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA!

It's Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It's also a great chance to see what others are reading right now...you just might discover the next “must-read” book!

Kellee Moye, of Unleashing Readers, and I decided to give It's Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children's literature - picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit - join us! We love this meme and think you will, too. We encourage everyone who participates to visit at least three of the other kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.

Announcements:

Unleashing Readers

Please take note that the IMWAYR button

has been updated to include Unleashing Readers.

Be sure to grab the updated button!

In case you missed the announcement,

Kellee is now blogging at Unleashing Readers with Rick Ginsberg.

We will be cohosting IMWAYR from now on so be sure to check out both posts!

Kindle Fire Giveaway

I'm super excited to be participating in a Kindle Fire HD giveaway! Sponsored by Kid Lit Frenzy, Read Now Sleep Later, Nite Lite Book Reviews, The Windy Pages, The Book Pixie, There's a Book, The Late Bloomer's Book Blog, Teach Mentor Texts, The Reading Date, Nancy Tandon, and Read Write Mom.

Show our blogger friends some love and at the same time earn entries into the giveaway! The Kindle Fire HD winner (US only) will also get their choice of 1 July or August Kindle eBook from Kid Lit Frenzy, 1 YA Kindle eBook from Read Now Sleep Later, 1 MG Kindle eBook from There's a Book. If you are not from the United States, use the second Rafflecopter to enter to win up to $20 worth of books from BookDepository.com and an ARC or signed copy of a book from Kid Lit Frenzy (A list of possible prizes will be posted after July 14, so check back!)

If you are a blogger, you can earn an extra entry by re-posting the giveaway. Copy the HTML from this page and paste it into a new post. We cannot count your entry unless you leave us the link, so remember to paste the link into the Rafflecopter widget. If you cannot embed the Rafflecopter widget, here is the Share Link for the Kindle Fire HD (US only) and the Share Link for the International $20 bookdepository.com widgets.

Rules:

1. You must be 13 years of age or older to enter, or have a parent/guardian enter for you. All entries are subject to verification.

2. We will notify the winner via email within 48 hours after the contest's end (11:59 pm on July 29).

3. The Kindle Fire HD winner must have a mailing address in the United States. The International ($20 bookdepository.com books) winner can be anywhere except the United States.

4. The winners will have 48 hours to reply with their mailing address or another winner will be chosen.

5. Contest sponsors are not responsible for items lost in the mail.

6. We love comments, but please do not leave personal information such as email or mailing addresses in the comments! We are using Rafflecopter because it will keep your information private.

Questions? Please email the organizer, Alethea, at frootjoos at gmail dot com.

Good luck!

Kind Fire HD:
a Rafflecopter giveaway

International $20 bookdepository.com:
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Last Week's Book Adventures:

Jen Says: Last week I read and adored The Center of Everything by Linda Urban and I also read Dork in Disguise for my class. I have to write a book review, answer discussion questions, and brainstorm ideas to support the kids in Dork in Disguise for my class so I figured I should read it and get a head start. I also started reading Zebra Forest which I'll be reviewing this week. Kellee will also be reviewing this on Unleashing Readers so be sure to see what we each think of it. I also read some great picture books that I'm so excited to share.

Reviewed Last Week:

Just click on any picture above to go read the review

Upcoming Book Adventures:

Jen Says: This week I'll be reading Zebra Forest and hope to get to Wake Up Missing. I have Wuthering Heights on audio that I wanted to read as part of my book gap challenge...but I listened to a few tracks and I'm not excited about it so we'll see what happens. I may be heading to the library for a different audiobook!