Two New Books

I’ve come across two new books I know students will love: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (and Jane Austen) and I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb.  I really enjoyed both books and am excited to share them with students.

In P&P&Z, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still find time to love and hate each other, but only in their time off from being action stars who must fight off zombies.  Girls will love Austen’s romance, and boys will be enthralled with the ninja zombie-killing skills.  This book could be great scaffolding into Jane Austen, but also just fun.


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 In Genius, readers are told that we are being given a rare view into seventh-grader Oliver Watson’s plot to take over the world starting with his middle school.  This wildly funny book shows us that all of us, even the evil geniuses among us, deal with the same annoying struggles such as trying to make our parents proud and finding the acceptance we didn’t know we cared about.



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