It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme started by Sheila at Book Journeys and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover the next “must-read” book!
Jen, of Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee and Ricki, at UnleashingReaders decided to give It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus.
I had such a great weekend! I saw The Hate U Give, went to the library book sale, had lots of coffee, and finally watched The Christmas Prince on netflix. I also finished a lot of books! I’m looking forward to another week of reading
Here’s what I’m currently reading:
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
I recently received this ARC from Simon & Schuster. It’s a middle grade novel about a half-white, half-black girl dealing with her parents’ divorce. I’m excited to have the chance to read this book early since I remember loving lots of Sharon’s books when I was in middle and high school.
Add Blended to your Goodreads shelf
Beware, Dawn by Ann M. Martin
Because I’m a total nerd, I love reading the BSC mysteries series during October and I just realized I haven’t read any yet this month. In my BSC reread, I’ve never really figured out how I want to incorporate the super specials, mysteries, and super mysteries so I kind of just read them when I’m in the mood for the story. Also I just finished Paperback Crush so I’m in a huge BSC mood now!
Add Beware, Dawn to your Goodreads shelf
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
I just started this middle grade graphic novel about a 13 year old girl who helps run a family laundromat and a ghost! I love the bright panels and look forward to seeing where the story goes
Add Sheets to your Goodreads shelf
What are you reading now?
Book Loaner 
Sheets looks so cute! And Blended sounds like a good story.
My roundup!
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Fun variety of books. I’ve never read a Babysitter’s Club book. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
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Sheets and Blended both look great. My weekly updates
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I hope to get to read Blended soon — sounds good and important. Going to go check out Sheets on Goodreads, too. This is a “new to me” title. Thanks for the shares this week, Hallie!
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Ooh, I want to read Sheets! I’m always happy to see a new MG graphic novel. 🙂
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I hope to watch A Christmas Prince very soon, looks fun.
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Blended is on my tbr list. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Babysitter’s Club book. I’ve only read the graphic novel versions.
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I love the graphic novel versions too!
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Paperback Crush is on my TBR. I have also been thinking of reading some BSC mysteries leading up to Halloween. I avoided a lot of them when I was a kid because I was worried they’d be too scary.
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Me too! I rarely read them as a kid cause I thought they were terrifying
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Blended and Sheets are now added to my want to read list. Thanks for the heads up about them.
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I can’t wait to watch The Hate U Give! How do you think it compares to the book?
I’ve been meaning to give The Babysitters Club series a read through; I’ve only read one or two growing up and I feel like I’m missing out! I started The New Girl by R.L. Stine so I could read through his backlist, but YA back then is so different than YA is now, it feels like a middle grade read. I saw Sheets at my library recently and it looks so cute!
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I thought it was such a great adaptation of the book. It really captured Starr’s voice. A few minor things were changed but the story didn’t suffer at all.
I love going back and reading through books I loved when I was a kid
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