The choices for this year’s Global Read Aloud are…
Picture Book Creator Choice:
Dan Santat’s brilliance will be featured during the six weeks.
Week 1: The Adventures of Beekle – The Unimaginary Friend
Week 2: After the Fall
Week 3: Don’t Trust Fish
Week 4. Harold & Hog Pretend for Real
Week 5: Are We There Yet?
Week 6: Your choice out of any of his fabulous work.
Early Reader Choice:
Reading breakdown
Week 1: Pages 1 – 43
Week 2: Pages 44 – 91
Week 3: Pages 95 – 138
Week 4: Pages 139 – 169
Week 5: Pages 173 – 207
Week 6: Pages 208 – end
Growing Home by Beth Ferry and illustrated by The Fan Brothers
Middle Grade Choice:
Reading breakdown
Week 1: Pages 1-31
Week 2: Pages 32 – 53
Week 3: Pages 54 – 82
Week 4: Pages 83 – 109
Week 5: Pages 110 – 139
Week 6: Pages 140 – end
The Second Life of Snap by Erin Entrada Kelly
Middle School Choice:
The Lions’ Run by Sara Pennypacker
Reading breakdown
Week 1: Pages 1 – 46
Week 2: Pages 47 – 92
Week 3: Pages 93 – 144
Week 4: Pages 145 – 187
Week 5: Pages 188 – 231
Week 6: Pages 232 – end
Young Adult Choice:
One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram
Reading breakdown
Week 1: Pages 3 -37
Week 2: Pages 38 -71
Week 3: Pages 72 – 102
Week 4: Pages 103 – 146
Week 5: Pages 147 – 182
Week 6: Pages 183 – end
Hashtags for the year:
Picture book author study – #GRADan
Growing Home – #GRAGrowing
The Second Life of Snap – #GRASnap
The Lion’s Run – #GRALion
One Word, Six Letters – #GRAOne
And of course the official one – #GRA26 or #GlobalReadAloud
Facebook groups to join
There is no sign-up to join, just either pay attention here for more information, subscribe to the newsletter, or join the Facebook communities – I would recommend joining the main one and the one specific to the book (or creator) you choose:
Upper Elementary/ Middle-Grade Book Group
Kick-off this year is October 5th and we run until November 13th.
You don’t have to follow the schedule, but please don’t read ahead and spoil the book(s) for others.
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To order your books:
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FOR RESOURCES AND TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
To find answers to the most frequently asked questions, go here – you will find ideas for how to do the project, as well as how you can share your reading.
Interested in helping me select next year’s books?
Since it’s inception, the GRA has been run by me. And I have loved it. But living in Denmark now, and not being in the normal routines that I was in when I lived in Wisconsin, has made it a tad bit more difficult to find the right reads, and also to reach people in the way I was able to.
So I have an idea to bring a few others on behind the scenes with me, very informally, to help me think of potential titles, to read and discuss contenders with me, or bring new ideas to the project. Lowkey, organic, and meant to make the process easier, and not a heavy time commitment.
If this makes you smile or excited, let me know. I would love to hear if anyone is interested or has any ideas that they wish could be implemented.
My email is p (at) globalreadaloud.com – let me know.
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