Video review: ‘In Real Life’

A teen gamer, Anda, is invited on missions with real-world earning potential: money will be deposited in her PayPal account if she kills “gold farmers” in the game. Here is my video review of In Real Life, written by Cory Doctorow and illustrated by Jen Wang.

Book-Talk : Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

Major-league pitcher VJ Capello has been Vivy Cohen’s hero ever since he showed her his grip for the knuckleball at a social event for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Vivy writes a letter to VJ to satisfy the requirements of her social-skills class and, after Vivy sends him several letters, VJ actually writes back! The author, Sarah Kapit brings her lived experience as an autistic individual to craft Vivy as a believable character. In 2021, Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! was an Honor Book for the Schneider Family Book Award.

‘The Eleventh Trade,’ my current read-aloud

Recently, I agreed to record a read-aloud of a suspenseful story, and the middle-school language arts teacher at my school posed a vote among her students for the titles I’d suggested. The Eleventh Trade was the winning vote-getter. Here’s my Book-Talk video for The Eleventh Trade. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you are enjoying my videos.

Classified Employee of the Month

Exciting news: I was honored at a recent board meeting for Santa Rosa City Schools as its Classified Staff Member of the Month for March 2021. Here I am in our school library with the official certificate.

‘Introduce yourself!’ (Library Juice Academy)

Video: I’m taking a course in cataloging from Library Juice Academy. During this first week of class, we were asked to introduce ourselves.