If you can’t get into what you’re reading, you can use
movement to liven up your reading and put yourself in the shoes of a character.

Annie John (1985), by Jamaica Kincaid, tells the story of a ten-year-old girl from Antigua, an island in the Caribbean.

By PEDRO LAHOZ WOLFE
Holes, by Louis Sacher
Laurel-Leaf Books

Holes, by Louis Sacher

Holes is about a boy named Stanley. Unlike other boys, he has to go to jail, even though he did not do anything wrong. Every day the boys have to dig holes five feet deep and five feet wide in a dried-up lake. [...]

In Trailblazers, a book of poems by Bobbi Katz, you get to meet more than sixty men and women who traveled far and wide to see new things and meet new people.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the fifth movie and the seventh book in the well-known series, were released.

The movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth in the series, was released this summer, but filmmakers twisted the contents of the book so much that it was nearly impossible to follow the plot.

A Little Piece of Ground is the story of Karim Aboudi, 12, a soccer buff and computer game junkie, growing up under Israeli occupation in Ramallah, Palestine.

“Fog boy,” Leo’s family calls him, because he is always daydreaming. Head in the clouds, he imagines that he is a famous actor, a Nobel prize-winning scientist, and most of all, that he is respected by his noisy, chaotic family.

Finally! After months of waiting, at 12a.m. on July 16th, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was out!