My mission

So here's the deal. I've been a high school English teacher for 12 years. I've made book choice my #1 priority for my students. I've spent these years becoming well-versed in young adult literature and loving it. And now I'm ALSO going to be the district librarian for my school for k-12. I have no idea what I'm doing. I love books and I love sharing books with students (and I'm taking classes to become a school librarian.) Here's the thing-- I don't know grade school or middle grade books. I have no idea what we have in our collection. I have no idea what books to recommend! Or what books to buy for that matter!

What's a new librarian to do?

Start reading the stacks. Yes, you read that right. Haven't you ever dreamed of it? Reading all of the books in the library? I have no idea if I'll accomplish it, probably not. But here is where I plan to chronicle my trials and tribulations regarding this endeavor of trying to become a librarian and getting to know our school's collection.

Luckily, my 5 year old son will help me in this endeavor. Here he is with his book stack from yesterday. That's a stack of Big Nate books that he loves and reads aloud to me each night.

Here's my basic plan-- I let Ben pick a book to read each night. That gets me one book or one chapter of a longer book. And then, in my reading for the evening, I read either one children's book or one chapter of a book each night before I read my current YA book. That could be up to 14 books a week! Well, maybe...

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