Books In the Middle Podcast
Looking for booktalks for middle school students? Look no farther than this podcast. Browse through the many titles in all different genres for just the right title to get your students inspired, excited and racing to the library for a copy of the book. Looking for written reviews for more titles? Check out the blog Booksinthemiddle.Wordpress.com to expand your own library and give students more options. New episodes typically release every Monday unless it is a holiday, however during the summer months, they will release every other week or so. Enjoy!
Books In the Middle Podcast
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango (Contemporary and Novel in Verse)
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
This is it! A new school year full of new opportunities - like making good grades again, and maybe making some new friends even though she has a great one in her friend Amir, and this year, she will not get into any trouble at school. Well, these are all goals that Iveliz has for herself as she starts seventh grade, but having them come true is a bit harder than she ever imagined. She is struggling with the fact that her grandmother has come to live with them from Puerto Rico (PR) and she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, which Iveliz doesn't really know much about. And while she loves her grandmother, she doesn't understand why her Mimi keeps saying that the medicine that Iveliz takes is not necessary.
Things begin to spiral at home and at school, and Iveliz thinks she can manage it all on her own, especially since she is not very close with her mother, after the incident, which is the whole reason she is having mental health issues. So where do you turn when every door seems to be closed?
Recommended for grades 7 and up.
