Dear Mr. W, I just finished Bomb by Steve Sheinkin. It is about the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. There are four pa...

This sample journal entry is actually three entries in one. After the introduction paragraph, the following paragraphs were written to me...

Dear Mr. W, Melvin Beederman is a superhero. The first book in the Melvin Beederman series is  The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich . Melv...

Dear Mr. W, The main difference between first person point-of-view and third person point-of-view is who is telling the story. In first...

Dear Mr. W, I just started reading The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg and already I have been able to make some inferences. I k...

After reading an ARC of Hold Fast , I immediately changed my read aloud schedule, moving the book to the top of the list for sixth grade....

Maybe it's just me, but don't some books just push you away? No, wait, that's not right. Let me rephrase that. Sometimes there...

Dear Mr. Wilhorn, I’m reading Wonder by R. J. Palacio and I’m telling some character traits for Jack. I thought I had a pretty good i...

The latest novel from Clare Vanderpool , Navigating Early , arrives in stores today. Had I known about her Newbery-winning debut novel, M...

Dear Mr. W, In the chapter I just read from The Year of Miss Agnes , there is an important theme that Fred tells the reader. When Bokko b...

Dear Mr. W, One main character in The Year of Miss Agnes is Miss Agnes. Some character traits for her are that she is a good teacher. Sh...

The original plan was to start my review of Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo with two Christmas lists, but I quickly realized that both lists...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished The Year of Miss Agnes . This is the plot . In the introduction I learned that Fred was the main character. ...

Dear Mr. W, I am still reading Tadpole . The main character is Carol. She is 10, the youngest, and says she is “nobody at all.” She is ...

Dear Mr. W, Today in Flush , Noah was unfortunately trapped inside the main setting of the chapter: the women’s bathroom on the Coral ...

Dear Mr. W, I am reading Tadpole by Ruth White . The story takes place in the hills of Kentucky in 1955. The book tells me that it is 19...

My original review of I Want My Hat Back says, “Sometimes - no, oftentimes - the simplest books end up being the best books.” I then went...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket . (He’s the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events , wh...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished reading Son by Lois Lowry and wanted to tell you about the setting. There are three main places where Son ...

Dear Mr. W, Today while reading Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things  by Lenore Look , Alvin used swearing words ...

When I started teaching I knew two things for certain. First, I wanted to read aloud every day. Second, I wanted my students to read every...

Life is full of transitions. Some are positive, others negative. Some transitions occur in our personal lives while others happen to us pr...

If Maya Makes a Mess was nonfiction, if author Rutu Modan had created an illustrated account of a real Maya’s actual dinner manners, tha...

My latest column is mostly not mine. After my brief introduction is an actual thank you letter from my wife's cousin, Mark, to their g...