Diamond Willow

I believe this qualifies as a novella, since it‘s less than 100 pages. It‘s actually poems, each in the shape of a diamond 💎

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🖤💙 12mo

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Diamond Willow | Helen Frost

Willow and her sled dog Ruby

#pets #curiouscovers @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Diamond Willow | Helen Frost

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amber_ldsmom I‘ve been wanting to read Dandelion Wine for a long time. 4y

Tanisha_A @amber_ldsmom Same! 🏃‍♀️ 4y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚🎁❤️ 4y

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚🎁 4y

Eggs @amber_ldsmom @Tanisha_A @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620 ❤️📚🥰 4y

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Bookworm54

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#ReadYourSign prompt 7: a book with your gem in the title

This was so beautiful. The majority of the story was written in diamond shaped poems, with some more standard prose for certain sections. Willow is a young girl in Alaska whose dog becomes injured after she takes the dogs out alone. I don‘t want to give too much away, but the story was sweet and for a children‘s book quite profound 🥰

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this book gave me chills man,
it made me hope with all my might that they could save everyone and i LOVED that the animals were willows family and willows grandparents were great.
i just couldn't get enough of this book

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Cfischbuch I loved how the author shaped each poem, and how the bolded parts were her deepest feelings. Really smart. 6y

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From the author of Hidden, this story is told in diamond shaped poems with a hidden message in each one.

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Bookishnights

Diamond Willow | Helen Frost

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Read this book for school and it was a very fast read I would give it a 3/5 because I don't enjoy reading books like this and It wasn't very interesting. #nativeliterature

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Caryl

Diamond Willow | Helen Frost

Thinking about possible class read-alouds for an advisory with students in grades 6-10. Do you like any you see here? Do you have any other suggestions for me?

#TeachersOfLitsy

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Malala was very good and so was The Graveyard book 8y

Caryl @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That one looks great! Thank you! 8y

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Caryl @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I haven't read I Am Malala yet, and think it might be fun to do with students. And I adore The Graveyard Book. ❤️ 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Another one, but more fun than serious might be

The Wee Free Men

8y

Caryl @Riveted_Reader_Melissa ooh, yes! That would be a fun one to read aloud! 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa My nephew also really enjoyed the Alcatraz series when he was in middle school... And I could see them being fun to read aloud.

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

8y

Caryl @Riveted_Reader_Melissa That looks like so much fun. And guess what? I'm the school librarian! 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Caryl The librarians are a secret evil society in this one, so as the librarian that could be a lot of fun! 8y

Caryl @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Oh, yeah! 🤓👍 8y

Bette "The War that saved my life" was excellent. 8y

mhillis Great hashtag! And book choices🤓 8y

TheFirst30 Love Crossover and Watson's. Agree with War That Saved My Life. Counting by 7's speaks to a broad age range.

Counting by 7's

8y

gibblr Such good picks! Brown Girl Dreaming, The Graveyard Book, The One and Only Ivan, and Wonder are all great choices! As for appealing all at once to 6-10, I would go with one of the first two. 8y

WanderingBookaneer Love this #bookstack ! Wonder and One & Only Ivan are great. I've read my 6th graders part of Brown Girl Dreaming. As for suggestions: A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Bad Beginning. My sixth graders are intrigued now that they know it'll be a Netflix series. 8y

Melkyl Watsons is one of my favorite books. If you do The Graveyard Book, get the audio read by the author. It's wonderful! 8y

Lindy These are all good picks for the age range. Under the Mesquite is a quiet story, a bit harder to sell especially to boys, so reading aloud is a good idea and it's short, too. Verse is always nice out loud; I see you have Helen Frost and Woodson too. Additional suggestion:

Skeleton Man

8y

Ellsbeth I ❤️ The Crossover. The lyrical quality of this book would make it a very fun read aloud. 8y

Mindyrecycles Wonder and Watsons are my top two of the bunch. 8y

Caryl @Bette & @TheFirst30 - I loved The War That Saved My Life. And I also enjoyed Counting by 7's, Tora. I believe I own them both! 8y

Caryl @mhillis - I saw someone else use that hashtag. Lots of teachers on Litsy! 8y

Caryl @gibblr @JaimitaPR @TheFirst30 @Melwilk @Lindy @Ellsbeth @Mindyrecycles - Thank you for you thoughts/"votes" on the ones here. So hard to choose! First read-aloud pick is key to winning the over to read-aloud idea, I think. 8y

Caryl ...winning *them* over... 8y

Caryl @JaimitaPR - Ooh, Series of Unfortunate Events #1 is so fun to read aloud! Didn't know about new show -- thanks! 8y

Caryl @Melwilk - So glad you mentioned audio! And oh, I could listen to Neil Gaiman read just about anything. 😍 8y

Caryl @Lindy - The bottom three in this stack are the only ones I haven't read yet. I thought a verse novel could work well, since our time together is limited, so was interested in Mesquite. Maybe I'll save it for later in the year. Hey, maybe I'll just do a bunch of different verse novels. The One & Only Ivan is sort of prose/poem-y. Skeleton Man looks great - is that also in verse? I should add:

Inside Out and Back Again

8y

Caryl @Ellsbeth - I think I read The Crossover out loud to myself! Couldn't resist. So fun & beautifully written. 8y

Caryl If they don't read it for a class:

The House on Mango Street

8y

Lindy Boundless starts out with a Sasquatch, if I remember right, and you could read just one or two chapters, then let students carry on if they wish. 8y

Lindy Skeleton Man isn't in verse but it's very short. It's a retelling of a traditional tale set in contemporary times and I've had students totally hooked during library outreach visits. 8y

Lindy I read parts of The Crossover out loud to myself too! 8y

Caryl Thank you, @Lindy! I requested Skeleton Man from my library so that I can take a look. (Are you a librarian?) 8y

Lindy I'm a library tech and I retired at the end of 2015. 8y

Caryl Congrats, @Lindy! Are you loving retirement? I'm coming back into the workforce as a school librarian (and going back to school for an MLIS) after being home with kids for 17 (!) years. 8y

RealLifeReading I think it's awesome that you're a school librarian! I'm originally from Singapore (live in the US) and many schools in Singapore don't have libraries anymore! 8y

Caryl @RealLifeReading - Yes, a good school library program is such a wonderful way to support student learning! I'm thrilled to take on this new role. 📚👍 8y

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