Unproven, Unlikely and Firmly Believed-a smart, funny quickly paced book

I read Unproven, Unlikely and Firmly Believed, but didn’t get it. My wife normally reads books with a pastel or a spring-colored spine. Typically these books are about a cute young guy who manages a book store in Maine. There’ a generational corner store in town that’s about to be managed by a cute young girl.  Both of their worlds will be upended when the data center or online warehouse open up its newest facility in the valley.  My wife normally reads books like that, but apparently there was a disturbance in the love and missed-connections book force which meant that she had nothing to read. She looked over at Unproven, Unlikely and Firmly Believed and asked me what it’s about.

Don’t let the conspiracy nature of Unproven, Unlikely and Firmly Believed deceive you into thinking this isn’t smart or fun to read. It’s clever, fast paced, education and doesn’t drag you down the rabbit hole.
Smart, but not too smart in its take on conspiracies

The Sherlock Society Art Attack balances intrigue, family, action and humor

The Sherlock Society: Art Attack, AKA, The Sherlock Society 3 knows its family, and its role. It’s very important to know your role. The Sherlock Society is the literary sibling to City Spies, which is the literary best friend to Spy School. Note that the first two series are related and the third one is RIYL. The Sherlock Society is mid-elementary through middle school as middle school metaphorical manna. Art Attack is a fun, confidence-building romp that’s got travel, age-appropriate relationships, a surprisingly twisty plot and characters audiences will grow along with.

The Sherlock Society 3, or The Sherlock Society: Art Attack, is the answer for upper-elementary, mglit people who want a semi-grounded, great book.
Neatly fits in the upper-elementary through mid-middle school puzzle

Jazzy the Witch in Friend Fiasco is an early go-to girl’s graphic novel

Jazzy is a witch who likes to ride bicycles. She likes to ride real bicycles. These are the pedal-powered bicycles that depend on centripetal force for their turns and are 100% reliant on people to move forward.  Jazzy is also a lot like most kids in elementary school. Friend Fiasco is the second book in the Jazzy the Witch series and is just the charming, low-key, comfort reading that kids in mid through upper-elementary school want to read.

Jazzy the Witch in Friend Fiasco is the second in a very cute graphic novel series for early elementary school and up with puns, action and a soft lesson or two.
Early elementary girls, this one’s for you

What the Road Said is illustrated, message book gold for the ages

One of the popular tropes for parents of high school seniors is to purchase a copy of Oh, the Places You’ll Go. Many of their influential teachers will sign the book. It’s meant to be a look back at what they’ve accomplished, and a glance forward to their post-high school life. What the Road Said, by Cleo Wade, with illustrations by Lucie de Moyencourt, channels the same vibe. It does that, but it’s also a read-aloud parable about the situations and challenges young people will encounter. The book asks realistic, yet vague enough questions that allow any kid to realistically see them asking it. They’re the things that kids secretly fear or openly wonder if they’re weird for thinking about it.

What the Road Said. It has a lesson, but isn’t a message book. It’s timeless, illustrated magic on dealing with life, for ages 5 and up.
A great book says “what?”

Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter hits the reading itch for elementary-aged boys

File under: adult ADHD. As I look at Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter on my desk it mocks me. The book knows that it was read many months ago. The book knows that the praise I thought about it stood true and was higher than most upper-elementary and mglit releases. The books also knows that it’s one of the few releases that speaks to boys more than girls. The educator in me knew that I needed to speak from the mountain top to my upper-elementary school teacher friends, that this was something they needed to be aware of. Yet, with all of that wind in the book’s sail, it sat on my desk, silently judging me. It was doing this while all the time boys, aged eight through twelve, were tilting at the literary windmills looking for a book with action, yokai, and a twist.

Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter is mglit that starts in upper-elementary and goes through middle school that’s fun to read and wicked quick.
Come get some

Little Monsters, a fun twist on Little Women that engages girls aged 8-12

I never read Little Women. I saw the shout-out that the classic book received in Ride or Die, felt momentarily guilty for it, but it’s not enough to make me read it. Little Monsters alludes to that classic title by having “Little” in the same regal font as “Women”, but having the latter word physically scratched out via a series of horizontal claw marks. Underneath that is “Monsters”, hastily scrawled as if someone’s leaving the scene of a cattle mutilation. You don’t need to have read the timeless book it references to be attracted to Little Monsters. This is a retelling of that story, and updated in ways that will engage young readers.

Little Monsters twists the time and setting of Little Women, and adds some monster paranoia, that will entertain girls in upper-elementary through middle.
Girls, gossip, monster, paranoia the destroyer

Lonely Planet Kids Let’s Go Rock Collecting: fun, go-to edutainment

The rabbit hole is a metaphor that I use in class a lot. It’s really fun explaining that to a group of elementary school students. The older students more readily understand it, but are less likely to enjoy the thrill of following it. Lonely Planet Kids Let’s Go Rock Collecting is the best kind of rabbit hole for mid-elementary through mid-middle school ages. The content, as well as, the enjoyment in Rock Collecting can demo much higher, but that’s if audiences are able to look past its young-skewing illustrations.

Let’s Go: Rock Collecting is a field resource guide that demands to be used and experienced by ages eight through middle school.
Rock on young STEM people

The Declaration Decoded effortlessly explains the document for ages 10 & up

The Declaration Decoded: A Guide to the Document that Inspired Our Nation implies that everyone who reads it will be a citizen of the United States. Imply and infer are tricky concepts to master, aren’t they? We’ve read other books that explained the Declaration of Independence, but those books are aimed at young audiences. This is all a bit ironic because the shape of The Declaration Decoded is smaller and more rectangular. Its more compact, hand-held package that seemingly aims at a younger demographic. Young and younger are all relative, aren’t they?

Through its format and writing, The Declaration Decoded: A Guide to the Document that Inspired our Nation makes learning fun and effortless.
make history fun, and something I can understand. Hold my drink.

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