My last post was about all the wonderful summer reading that I was going to accomplish. So that didn't happen. However I did read The Lightning Thief, Distant Waves and Girl in a Cage- all of which I will be highly recommending to students this year. I am in love with historical fiction, which is why I really wanted to focus on Distant Waves and Girl in a Cage.
Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn is a story about a young girl named Blythe who gets dragged into a highly spiritual town of Spirit Vale where her mother becomes quickly known as a famous chaneller. A chance meeting with the young inventor Nikola Telsa changes the course of her life that eventually lands her on the Titanic. It was a very interesting read since it was marketed as a Titanic book, however it is only about the ship in the last 4 or so chapters. Still very much worth the read due to the woven story of Telsa and his accomplishments.
The second book I would like to review is Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Robert j. Harris. This one I could not put down. Basically anything involving the medieval age and I am sold. This book focuses on the war of Scotland and its Independence from England. In her short time as Princess of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce, aged 11, finds herself captive and held in a cage in the centre of a small town in England to be shown as a war criminal. Incredibly captivating and quite historically accurate, it was my summer favourite by far.
In other news, I have a continuing contract!!! Hooray!!!! As a part time Librarian I am so full of ideas!! I have been hard at work redesigning the physical space of the Library with new shelving and displays and will be ready to post (hopefully) by next week with lots of ideas and how-tos. In the meantime, here is a quick sneak-peak of the pom poms that I have been creating with the help of my trusty Labrador, Bailey. The tutorial I used can be found here.
Hint: The pom poms are to represent "Truffula Fruits" ;)
