A Happy Schoolroom Story

Via Twitter: Cecelia Larsen @celialarsen “in which a classroom library is destroyed by flood, and book bloggers help save the day”: #books

Read all about how volunteers helped restore a flooded classroom with new books at Cecilia Bedelia’s Blogspot. Nice to hear about people adding books to school libraries (instead of removing them).

Check out this partial list of titles donated to Ms. Larsen’s 9th Grade English classroom (Ms. Larsen is the author’s sister):

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
White Cat by Holly Black
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

If you have any further suggestions of books that belong in a 9th grade classroom (for self-directed reading), please mention them in the comments. Ms. Larsen and I thank you!