There is a lot of things to get out of the graphic novel Mexikid by Pedro Martin. Read to hear one student’s perspective on the novel.
Category Archives: Big Read 2024
The Music of The Great Gatsby
Music has been one of the defining features of The Great Gatsby. Read to see how it plays into different adaptations and find some new music!
The Great Gatsby Trivia
The Great Gatsby might be a famous classic, but there are some fun facts surrounding the novel that you probably haven’t heard of before. Take this trivia test below to see how much you really know about The Great Gatsby!
What’s the Big Deal with Graphic Novels?
For our 2024 Middle Read, we’ve enthusiastically chosen Mexikid by Pedro Martin and we encourage all of our Lakeshore readers to pick up a copy and enjoy this amazing story! After the wide-spread success of last year’s Middle Read book (New Kid by Jerry Craft), our Big Read team decided to choose another graphic novel …
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The Fabulous Five: Big Read Lakeshore’s 2024 Book Selections
By Deborah Van Duinen In the first few years of our Big Read Lakeshore program, we chose one book to read every year. This book was geared toward high school students and older, and our events and book discussions were geared toward this audience. In response to community members, librarians, and elementary school teachers who …
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It’s Book Announcement Day!
Announcement day for Big Read Lakeshore’s 2024 season is here! Find out what this year’s book selections are!
Novels Gone Broadway
There are so many modern adaptations of novels, but one type of adaptation has recently gained popularity—the musical adaptation. The Great Gatsby is taking Broadway by storm in its new musical format. Other musical adaptations of novels have also gained more traction in more recent years; Matilda and The Notebook are just two other examples …
Behind the Big Read: Arayah Weiden
I am a Junior at Hope studying Secondary English Education and Psychology. On campus I am also involved in dining services with the Cup and Chaucer as well as with Hope College Athletics as an athlete for Track and Field. Outside of school I work for the Muskegon YMCA as part of their outreach program …
Behind the Big Read: Addie Wilcox
I am currently in my final semester at Hope College where I am majoring in Secondary English Education, Creative Writing, and Classical Studies. I live in Allegan, MI, which is where I am currently student teaching, but I originally hail from Ann Arbor, MI. After this semester, I am hoping to find a teaching position …
Revisiting Past Perspectives of the Big Read
While we are waiting to launch into our programming for our 2024 Big Read books, we want to take some time to revisit some of the pieces that have been published about our Big Reads of the past couple of years! Whether in places like the Holland Sentinel or published to scholarly databases, the Big …
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