I never posted about finishing "Paper Towns" over the summer, but I did and... it was still just alright. Like I said before, it's no Fault in Our Stars. I don't even care about seeing the movie, which was the whole point of reading it. Oh well.
I just finished "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" the other day. According to the Amazon reviews, it was supposed to be better than The Fault in Our Stars. I liked it, thought it was funny, but it was definitely no Fault in Our Stars either. I'm all for cancer books being funny, but I just feel like, even if they try to defy all the cliches of the genre, they should still make you cry at least once by the end, and this one didn't.
Has anyone read any great YA novels or children's chapter books lately that would be good for me to read and recommend to my students? My fourth graders are blogging about books, and I like to blog along with them as an example, so I need to be reading something that's appropriate to share with ten-year-olds. I finished "Wonder" by R.J. Palaccio a few weeks ago, and that was wonderful, but I need to find something new that would be okay for them to read too. I tried Me and Earl and the Dying Girl because I knew it was a YA book, but it was waaaaaay too inappropriate for fourth graders. I don't think the Walking Dead comics are going to cut it either LOL.