Guided reading activity adolescence

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How can I help build my students' foundational reading skills?

Where can I find engaging books with diverse perspectives?

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Book Nook

Looking to add to your MG/YA bookshelf? Here’s what we’re reading this month. Click on the book cover to learn more. Happy reading!

Read and Tweak

We hope you will read along with us and consider tweaks you can make in your instructional practice. Click on the book cover to learn more.

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In Aru Shah and the End of Time, what kind of animal is the Pandava sisters’ mentor/guide?

Congrats! You got it right!

Aru Shah and the End of Time is the first book in the Pandava series by Roshani Chokshi. The
series follows Aru Shah, a 12-year-old with a tendency to fabricate the truth to fit in at her
private school. When she is unexpectedly confronted by her classmates trying to catch her in a
lie, Aru accidentally releases an ancient demon intent on waking the God of Destruction. Now,
plunged in a world where ancient legends and myths are reality, Aru must confront her own self-
doubts and complete a quest through the Kingdom of Death (in her Spider-Man pajamas).