In this episode, Lori Johnson interviews her daughter, LCA alumna Alexandra Johnson who is a senior at Calvin College studying to be a secondary English teacher. Alex is a serious reader and a podcast fanatic. By the time this episode airs, she will have read over one hundred books this summer, along with working full-time as a camp counselor to five and six-year-olds at Meadow Breeze Day Camp and consolidating her research for her honors thesis on the topic of freshman writing genre study and the use of college writing centers.
Alex and I will be sharing some of our favorite young adult and middle-grade books that we read this summer in hopes that you may read them too and share the list with your students. Summer is a great time to catch up on the new books that have been published during the school year when it is difficult to read them while keeping up with lesson planning and grading. We hope you enjoy the episode!
Topics:
01:02 - How to discover good books that you may want to read
01:58 - Favorite fantasy genre books of the summer
04:50 - Realistic fiction for middle grades
10:00 - Global Read Aloud
12:50 - African American Literature
Resources Referenced in the Podcast:
GoodReads: www.goodreads.com
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Posted and Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson
Gary Schmidt (author of Okay For Now, Wednesday Wars, etc.)
Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Global Read Aloud: https://theglobalreadaloud.com/
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Track series: Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Picture us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
