Goodreads Giveaway for The Perfect Trip

I can't believe my new middle grade novel, The Perfect Trip is releasing in March! You can win a review copy during the month of January. Just enter below. And don't forget to click "Want to Read" when given the option!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Perfect Trip

by Stacy Barnett Mozer

Giveaway ends January 31, 2017.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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About the book: Sam Barrette’s life is finally going in the right direction. She’s made the boys’ travel baseball team, her friendship with Mike is turning into something more, and she’s even connected with her stepmother. But a cross-country family camping trip filled with secrets and surprises challenges everything she thought she knew about what the future will hold. To save her dreams, Sam must find a way to fix her perfect trip.

#IMWAYR January 9, 2017 #MockCaldecott

Each week I try to join Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers to share all of the reading I've done over the week from picture books to young adult novels. It's #IMWAYR!

Last week my class started a mock Caldecott unit. We spent the first week learning about the Caldecott Medal and looking at past winners. While students were learning, I was gathering books. Here are 12 of our 13 nominees:

We are also are looking at Ada's Violin but since I couldn't find a physical copy of the book, we explored it together:

What do you think of our nominees? What books do you think the committee should consider for the Caldecott? 

#IMWAYR January 2, 2017 Vacation Week Part 2

Each week I try to join Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers to share all of the reading I've done over the week from picture books to young adult novels. It's #IMWAYR Vacation Week Part 2!

Last week I made a list of the books I planned to read. I read almost all of them, plus two I wasn't expecting. Here's what I read this week:

Middle Grade

This book has been on my TBR list for a while and I'm glad I finally had a chance to read it. It is the story of a village that has been held hostage by a witch that claims one baby each year, a witch that finds new families for those babies, a man who decides there must be another way, a broken mother, a lovable swamp monster, a tiny dragon, and a girl who drank the moon. I loved the way the lives of these multiple characters entwine together. It is a beautiful story filled with magic and love. 

Young Adult

You know you are reading a great fantasy series when your dreams start taking place in the series setting. This imagined world has fantastic characters, redeemable villains (at least some of them), magic, betrayal, adventure, and a spunky female main character to follow through the pages. I enjoyed the way different points of view were weaved in and out of the narrative.

At high school orientation five strangers are grouped together and write letters to be opened the last day of school. For the next four years we follow their lives through twists and turns until they finally meet again at graduation. A really enjoyable read that brought me back to high school.

Currently Reading

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If you like my reading choices, you can check out all the books I've read on Goodreads.