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The Cay | Theodore Taylor The Cay #1 | 156 pages | 1969 Historical Fiction, Young Adult Literature ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Shelf Worthy From the Back of the Book “Shipwrecked! All his life Phillip had looked down upon black-skinned people. Now, suddenly, he was a refugee from a fatal shipwreck, and dependent on an extraordinary West…
In mid-May, I was talking with a few student-athletes at a regional track meet about their a quarterly assignment that was due the night before for my class. The assignment always seems to get done at the last minute with the group of students I was talking with, so I was sympathizing with them the…
While scrolling through Instagram at the end of the 2017, I stumbled upon several users posting about their plans to tackle the Unread Shelf Project in 2018. Being one to have a large amount of books that are unread, I was intrigued and motivated to tackle it. After counting up and sorting through all of…
I am planning on merging blog posts from my Weebly site to this new site, so I have decided to merge the two blogs that I created – The Avalanche of Books and EduCollecTIONs – into one blog page. The Avalanche of Books – As an avid reader, I am constantly hearing about books. I…