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A moving story of a 12 year old girl trying to find meaning in the unexpected death of her best friend.

Friendship ✨ Loss ✨ Loneliness

For fans of Eight Grade (the movie)

So back to the drawing board I went and here are the new winners (presented by my sweet girl, Willow). Let me know what your thoughts are @BennettBookworm @Kayla.Adriena @LiteraryinLawrence #LMPBC #Groupk

@LibrarianRyan @BrittanyReads @cwarnier So I have to start off with an apology I saw Middle Grade and got all excited. Didn‘t pick up on the graphic novel part until tonight. So I only have the one. I just got the other 3 for BBRC prompts. Do any of these look good to you? If not, I can throw out more titles.

“There are so many things to be scared of in this world: blooms of jellies. A sixth extinction. A middle school dance. But maybe we can stop feeling so afraid. Maybe instead of feeling like a mote of dust, we can remember that all the creatures on this Earth are made from stardust.”

I personally loved this book! The thing about jellyfish is one of my favourite books because I enjoyed the facts about jellyfish and I think that they are fascinating creatures. The storyline is about Suzy trying to figure out how her best friend died. Overall, this book one of my favourite picks.

Here are my choices for #GroupO #LMPBC. Let me know if anything stands out in particular or if you have read any on these. @LiteraryinLititz @BennettBookworm @sharread I will tag each book ⬇️ so you can check each one out.

Although this is a story about coping with grief, I found it hopeful. I loved Suzy‘s relationships with her parents and her science teacher.

The way kids can be cruel to each other and the reality of peer pressure are unflinchingly represented. Suzy‘s mind doesn‘t work quite the same way as other kids and that makes social cues hard for her.

The way she thinks is brilliant though. What a great representation of a kid‘s brain ticking.

“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can‘t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”

When you are 12, how do you deal with losing your best friend? Grief is the thing with feathers- but in this book it‘s the thing with tentacles.

Lovely afternoon read!
Thanks @AmyG ❤️❤️

@TheAromaofBooks Sarah I had to substitute this tbr for the previously drawn book as I lent it out. Hope that‘s ok.
#bookspin
#doublebookspin

“A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating, a ghost heart you can see right through right into some other world where everything you ever lost has gone to hide”

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Lovely story!

Wow, what a powerful statement.

☃️ tagged

☃️ Words on Fire-Jennifer Nielsen

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#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

This book honestly took me on an emotional roller coaster. I was able to feel the characters feeling. The book was so well written in my opinion, that I could clearly imagine everything happen as the story was told. This book was also about a character around the same age range as I, so I could relate to it. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for something to read that will leave them spinning with questions you are happy to not answer.

“It couldn't in a million years happen. But what if it could?“

I like that this book was both sort of unrelatable (the photographic memory thing), but also relatable (grieving and coping) I think it adds a great dynamic to the story.

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin is a piece of contemporary realistic fiction. It was published in 2015. This book is about Suzy. Suzy has a very powerful brain and remembers almost everything. She got into a fight with her best friend and then her friend died. This story follows Suzy's journey with coping and grieving. I think this is relatable for children in the sense of dealing with grief and death of a friend, but maybe not the brain

“I could tell you a lot about jellyfish...The whole time, from before any of those extinctions, from life's origins until this minute, jellyfish have been there, pulsing their way across the oceans and back. Jellyfish are survivors. They are survivors of everything that ever happened to everyone else.“

I like how this book doesn't have a happy ending because it can allow children to see many different ways of coping with a sudden death. Suzy can't process her friends death because of the lack of closure in their friendship.

This book is about Suzy Swanson who lives with her mother. She has always known things that others don't such as the sleep pattern of ants. She is a very smart kid who is unpopular which is very relatable to today's children due to bullying. Suzy finds out that her best friend from kindergarten drowned in the ocean on vacation. This is very hard for Suzy to process and starts doing research on jellyfish because she is denial about the death.

Read this book as a family and wanted to love it, but it was lacking. The protaganist is annoying and not dynamic.The chapters of the main character talking to her dead best friend were weird. The story is building up to this big event and resolution that suddenly is switched in the end.The best part of the book is all of the facts about jellyfish! It didn't surprise me to read that the author originally wrote this as a nonfiction piece.

Loved this book on so many levels!

“Ms? I don‘t have a book to read today.”

Lucky for you I come prepared. #allofthesewereinmybag #stacksonstacks #riotgrams #teachersoflitsy

Note to self: Stop reading sad books in the faculty room... it‘s always awkward when other teachers find you crying!

Even though this book basically crushed me, I can see why so many of my students loved it. It really is a beautifully written story!

May has been the month of doctor visits... first Nina got cleaning product in her eyes and we were going to specialists to make sure they weren‘t damaged (she‘s fine), then We found out Lane needs to have surgery to remove a small mass in his ear, and today I learned that my thyroid is barely functioning... guess that explains the exhaustion! 🤦‍♀️
Anyways, I started this at the doctors office today and it made me cry in the first 50 pages.

This RF, is a New York Times Best Seller, and it is about a girl who has Autism. Her best friend gets stung by a jellyfish and dies. She goes through a whirlwind of emotions to get the answers she is searching for. This book can be used in the classroom as a LC so that students can discuss and engage with each other #LAE3414sp19

This book is so good and I‘m learning a ton of facts about jellyfish, so much so that I‘m going to be afraid of swimming in the ocean when I‘m in Thailand this summer. 1 in 46 people have been stung by a jellyfish. Have you?

#marchstats #monthlywrapup #marchreads
I didn't read any comics this month 😱 I used my #Hoopla loans for some great #womenhistorymonth books
Only 4 physical books this month, and 4 audiobooks.
Can't even pick a favorite!! ❣️
(The tagged book didn't fit in collage)

Lovely! Sad but lovely. I enjoyed the author‘s use of — rememberings? I found myself genuinely liking Suzy. I saw a bit of myself in her — middle school was hard and I never seemed to know what the right thing to do/say was.

#2019middlegrade
#huggable

Now to wait for the movie.

I just learned this is becoming a movie.
Any Stranger Things fans here? Millie Bobby Brown is starring...
Reading this for the first time, I can‘t get the image of her out of my head — hence why I always read the book first. That said, I think she will be great in the role of Suzanne 😊

Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone else 😬🤦🏻‍♀️

I‘m not crying, you‘re crying. 🥺

This is a sweet, sad little middle-grade that I gifted to my daughter for Christmas a few years ago. She loved it, but I just now got around to it. A clever story about dealing with grief and about being different—this was a quick read and I only teared up a few times.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Happy Halloween!! 🎃 #jellyfish

Very nice middle school book. A great story and a beautiful cover #Jellyfish #middleschool #ATB

I read this book over the summer and I recommend this book so much!! It‘s more geared toward girls. Is a easy read I read it in 2 days! It‘s sorta sad but it‘s exciting and addicting!!😊😊

My plans for my October reads. I‘ve already finished Wishtree (good) and The Green Mile part 6 (excellent). I‘m currently reading The Thing About Jellyfish, and what a beautiful cover it has. #ATB