Soar Written by Joan Bauer Overview: Jeremiah is a twelve-year-old boy from Indiana. At least, they think that he is. He was adopted by a single man named Walt Lopper after he was found next to his office's coffee pot. Jeremiah grew up to be a normal boy until the age of 10. He got sick with a virus that was attacking his heart. In order to survive, Jer had to have a heart transplant. Since that operation, his life changed drastically. He had to watch his heart rate constantly and keep away from germs as to not get sick. Jer learns how to deal with all of this in this touching story about what he absolutely lives for: Baseball. He moves to Ohio with Walt and he ends up finding his place by encouraging the new city to not give up on its love of baseball. The interesting writing style and length of this book make it a great choice for 5th-6th graders who might love a great book with baseball woven into it. A read aloud of the first few chapters to introduce this book mig
The Day the Crayons Quit Written by Drew Daywalt & Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Overview: One day in class, a little boy named Duncan took out his crayons and found a stack of letters with his name on them. Each letter was written by one of his crayons. The red crayon, the pink crayon, the green crayon, and so on. Each crayon had written Duncan about he felt in regards to their overuse or underuse in his drawings or other issues that they felt needed to be addressed. When Duncan was finished reading all of the letters he tired to think of a way to appease all of his crayons and decided to draw and incredibly creative picture with all of his crayons. Duncan got an A+ on his drawing! This book takes a comical look at creativity from a crayon's perspective. This entertaining book can be read by 2nd graders and would make such fun read aloud for children. Awards: 2014-2015 Bluebonnet Award To order your own copy: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-day-the-crayo