Looking to do some self-care at home? Start with a simple sugar body scrub!
Supplies:
- Jar
- Coconut oil
- Granulated sugar
- Essential oils or extracts (i.e., vanilla extract)
- Food colouring (optional)
Music: “Summer” from bensound.com
Teen Reads Prompts
QOTD #3: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
What mysterious events have occurred, and how do they impact the four friends? Do the police seem to play a role in these events?
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Kids Reading Club Prompts
QOTD #3: Extraordinary
As Pansy continues to work toward being extraordinary – and putting a lot of focus on rollerblading and skating, the reading contest, and Girl Scouts – her relationships seem to be changing. Describe the changing relationship between Pansy and Andy, and Pansy’s growing friendship with Madison.
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Kids Reading Club Prompts
QOTD #2: Extraordinary
Andy seems to have a hard time talking about Anna and how she is doing, while Pansy seems to try and treat her as normal as possible. Why do you think there is such a difference in their approaches?
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Teen Reads Prompts
QOTD #2: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
The title of the book is pretty interesting, as is the style the book is written. Make a prediction about why the book is called The Rest of Us Just Live Here. What do you think will happen without reading the rest of the book and using the title as a clue?
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Kids
Pipe Cleaner Butterfly
Have you been seeing more butterflies with the start of spring and warmer weather? Now you can make your own! Follow the tutorial to make your own pipe cleaner butterfly.
Supplies:
- Pipe cleaners
- Pony beads
- Scissors
Music: “Little Ideas” from bensound.com
Teen Reads Prompts
QOTD #1: The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Why do you think the authors starts the chapters with descriptions of what happens to the indie kids, while focusing the story on Mike and his friends? Do you like the way that’s written? Why or why not?
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Kids Reading Club Prompts
QOTD #1: Extraordinary
Why does Pansy want to become extraordinary? What are her overall goals to become extraordinary?
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Kids Reading Club Prompts
Extraordinary by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
Check out this week’s new book club title, Extraordinary by Miriam Spitzer Franklin.
The book can be downloaded as an ebook from Hoopla:
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12350040
Last spring, Pansy chickened out on going to spring break camp, even though she’d promised her best friend, Anna, she’d go. It was just like when they went to get their hair cut for Locks of Love; only one of them walked out with a new hairstyle, and it wasn’t Pansy. But Pansy never got the chance to make it up to Anna. While at camp, Anna contracted meningitis and a dangerously high fever, and she hasn’t been the same since. Now all Pansy wants is her best friend back-not the silent girl in the wheelchair who has to go to a special school and who can’t do all the things Pansy used to chicken out of doing. So when Pansy discovers that Anna is getting a surgery that might cure her, Pansy realizes this is her chance-she’ll become the friend she always should have been. She’ll become the best friend Anna’s ever had-even if it means taking risks, trying new things (like those scary roller skates), and running herself ragged in the process.
Pansy’s chasing extraordinary, hoping she reaches it in time for her friend’s triumphant return. But what lies at the end of Pansy’s journey might not be exactly what she had expected-or wanted.
Check out the blog on Monday for the first question!
Teen Reads Prompts
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Check out this week’s new book club title for Teen Reads – The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness!
The book can be downloaded as an ebook from Hoopla:
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12376672
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions… An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as “an insanely beautiful writer”.
Check the blog on Monday for the first question!