Category Archives: Realistic Fiction
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
This is what the fifth and sixth graders have been reading in the library:
What is Realistic Fiction?
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Book Review: Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
A few years ago I stumbled upon this charming book at a half price store. Moxy’s challenge is to read “Stuart Little” during her summer break before she enters fourth grade. Moxy and her book are inseparable…. but not in the way you might think! Like all of us who put off doing what we SHOULD be doing, Moxy’s real problem is that she does not want to read what someone tells her to read!
As if the story isn’t engaging enough, the pictures in every chapter are black and white photos taken by Moxy’s twin brother, Mark. You will meet “Mudd”, Moxy’s dog and “Rosie”. Written much in the story form of Clementine or an older version of Junie B. Jones, “Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little” will make you smile and laugh and look forward to many of the other “Moxy Maxwell” adventures! (Review by Mrs. Kalbfleisch)
Introducing Realistic Fiction!
Student Books Trailers
We all know how traditional book reports work: read the book and write a summary to prove you read the book. So what is a Book Trailer? It’s simply an advertisement for a book. Have you ever been to the movies and watched the previews for upcoming attractions? Like a movie trailer, it highlights story elements without giving everything away to entice your interest.
The Book Trailer below was made by me by using Windows Live Movie Maker.
Tabitha in sixth grade is making a Book Trailer using the following steps. We will learn how to create a storyboard, import pictures via Community Clips to match the words she has written ( 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.), find perfect (royalty free) music (Incompetech.com & http://freeplaymusicclassic.com/)to set the tone of the book and, most importantly, entice others to read her book!
Here are the steps:
1. Read a book
2. Write a summary outline.
3. Create a story board.
4. Match images to the words.
5. Place images in Windows Live Movie Maker.
6. Add words. Or, if using an ipad, reading the writing to create a voiceover.
Here’s the completed project!!!
ALA Winners for 2012
On Monday, January 23rd, the American Library Association announced the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott and other book awards.
In the children’s book world, this is like the Academy Awards of books. Librarians get pretty excited about the announcement and try for weeks ahead of time to predict the winners.
Here are the winners for 2012 and ready for you to checkout!!!
John Newbery Medal – for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Newbery Honor Winners
Randolph Caldecott Medal– to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Caldecott Honor Winners-
Julia Gillian Book Review by Courtney
Submitted on 2010/09/29 at 4:32pm
Julia Gillian by Alison McGhee
The book Julia Gillain is a great book for 4th graders and up (because of the big words in it) it’s a really cool book about a green book,and a claw machine.
It’s print is big but don’t think that when you first see it you can read it in an hour or two. I was home sick one day reading it and it took me 4 hours to read it nonstop. That shows me that whoever wrote it was a great writer, and it shows how good Mrs.Kobflesh is at picking out great books. Whenever you go into the library remember to ask Mrs.Kobflesh if there are any good books that are new