Saturday, March 20, 2010

Sock books

Here are 2 short and breezy chapter books for grades 4 and up:

Urban, Linda. A Crooked Kind of Perfect. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
Zoe dreams of being the next Vladimir Horowitz and playing Carnegie Hall. She has one major setback, though--she doesn't own a piano.


López, Diana. Confetti Girl. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co, 2009.
Apolonia Flores is obsessed with socks; her father is obsessed with British literature; her best friend is obsessed with boys, and her best friend's mother is obsessed with making cascarones.