It's Yearbook Time Again!!

I'd like you to meet the newest members of The Old Plank Yearbook Staff!!!

These Seven Super Seniors  will be capturing  the school year and mixing it all together to make the most amazing yearbook ever for all of us!!

Thanks guys and dolls - looking forward to a fabulous year!! :)

PUB it on Barnes & Noble

 PubIt! NOOK Books

Discover Independent Authors

This summer I found a great thing that Barnes & Noble is doing - exposing us to Independent Authors who are out there battling the reading world without the help of a large publishing company to help them! And what a SUPER thing for the new authors coming into the book world.

{This is where I found Colleen Hoover , the amazing new author who wrote Slammed and Point of Retreat. In the weeks since I found this author she has made a deal with a top publishing company.}

I found some amazing books to read in the YA {teen} section that actually didn't break my piggy bank as well. { I  think really what I  liked was the price tags the best - haha!} They had books for adults, teens and young readers as well.

Take a minute a click the link above and see what's out there for you to read. I think you will be pleasantly surprised!!

Point of Retreat - Book 2

Did you wonder what happened to Will & Lake after Slammed was finished? 

Did Colleen Hoover leave you wanting more?

Well, you are in luck since there is a book 2 called Point of Retreat which will carry you over into this wonderful couple's life after it got turned upside down and then some what put back together. 

The couple has a long way to go in their wacky life that brought them together. Serious decisions need to be made about ... what next???

Colleen Hoover has done an amazing job closing in that gap for not only Will & Lake about what comes next in their lives , but also in the lives of the little brothers and their friends.

She transforms your heart and tugs on it yet once again and leaves you crying for more!!! 

*****FIVE GOLD STARS*****

SLAMMED & LOVED

I just finished reading this book - Slammed by Colleen Hoover! It was amazing!!! Actually beyond amazing! She is a new and up and coming YA Author and I must say she hit this one right out of the park!!! 

This book is rather lengthy, but it flows like water being poured that the length is non-existent!!  I am a slow reader - have I ever mentioned that?? Well, I am, but I read this is 2 short sittings and it's over 1,100 pages! Yup! 

The characters are amazing! 

The relationships touched me, it grabbed my insides and twisted them up and simply made me smile!!!

A MUST READ!!!!!

*****FIVE GOLD STARS*****

PS - Did I mention to you that it's a $2.99 download to your Kindle or Nook???

Race over and download - you will not be sorry!!!!!

18-year-old Layken Cohen misses her life back in Texas, harbors a deep hatred for concrete garden gnomes and has fallen hard for her new neighbor, Will Cooper. 

21-year-old Will Cooper misses his life before it became so complicated, has a passion for performing slams and has fallen hard for his new neighbor, Layken Cohen--despite her deep hatred for garden gnomes. 

Not long after an intense, heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together, and the secret that keeps them apart.

SA Summer Reading

 There is a tab for SA Summer Reading on the school website. 

There is a list of required reading for certain classes as well as suggested reading.

Lower School students - Don't forget to TRAIN YOU BRAIN and keep up with your minutes you read in your journals!! 

Did I Mention????

  ..... The 2011-2012 Old Plank Yearbook Staff won an award from Jostens???

I forgot to tell you?? Well, we did!! :)

Josten has a National Excellence Program and this years staff won!!!! YES!!! 

We were 1 of 239 school across the United States to receive this award! 

Amazing? Yes it is!!!

Am I proud? Yes, I am bursting with pride and excitement!!! 

The students did I great job! Did I ride them all year about getting things done - yes well just a little and their hard work paid off!!!

So congrats to my kiddos for a job well done!!!

Here's to an amazing year coming up and maybe a 2nd award? Who knows, but I look forward to my 2nd year and another challenge! :)

Before Wendy - there was Tiger Lily

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy...http://bit.ly/Kta0aL

(click the link to see the official trailer for this book  - you'll want to fly like tinkerbell to a bookstore near you or hit a download link for that nook or kindle you love to read on!)

This is my next read .. unless I get distracted my some other amazing author before I get to the end! ;)