I say it frequently, whether I’m tweeting about our readers’ reading habits in the library or animatedly talking about it with teacher colleagues, if I could do nothing other than booktalking as a high school librarian I would be even happier. It could be one-on-one or a whole class, but I can’t help but get excited about all of the books at our fingertips.

This past week, my co-librarian and I spent the week working with our ENL classes for orientations and booktalks and the majority of our 10th grade students booktalking for independent reading.

My favorite utterance was “can we check out more than one?” Ummmm, YES! We’ll continue over the next few weeks filling in here and there for more booktalks but the majority took place within this past week. While I’m exhausted and the library is in general loving disarray, I’m filled with love for authors, their books, and our students.

Here were some of my favorites to discuss:

• Attack on Titan by Isayama
• Proud by Muhammad
• Long Way Down by Reynolds
• Milk and Honey by Kaur
• Lockdown: Escape from Furnace by Smith
• Ms. Marvel by Wilson
• Black Enough edited by Zoboi
• The Selection by Cass
• Chasing King’s Killer by Swanson
• Between Shades of Gray by Sepetys