The Best Reader [09/30/12

  • Before the Bell Rings 9.30.10

    Remember a couple weeks ago when I mentioned that I had been approved to begin teaching "The Hunger Games" to a class of freshmen? It's about time for an update.After the initial introduction to the book and to Suzanne Collins, I told my students that we would be reading "The Hunger Games." Then, right after everyone had finished …

  • Siberia — Ann Halam

    This week I'd like to welcome Sharry from Always Dream. Thank you so much!***************************Synopsis: Sloe barely remembers the city where she grew up. Her earliest memory is of arriving at the dirty, unfriendly prison camp called the Settlement, a rundown collection of factories built in a cold, dark wilderness of perpet…

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