Mrs. Malecha Reads!

by Jason Reynolds Lexile:  750 Genre:  Realistic Fiction This story is told in ten blocks after school is dismissed for the day.  Each story is a separate journey home, but in some way they are all connected.  Like all good stories, this was starts with a school bus falling from the sky.  But not everyone saw it because they were focused on other things.  They were all too busy just trying to get home.

by Jonathan Auxier Lexile:  630 Genre:  Fantasy It has been 5 years since Nan has seen Sweep and had to go to work for the evil chimney sweep, Wilkie Crudd.  The Sweep taught Nan all kinds of things about the hard life of a chimney sweep, but Crudd cares about nothing except making money.  Nan and the other sweeps don't have any control over their lives and just keep working as hard as they can.  When Nan gets caught in a chimney, people think that she has died, but in reality, her new life is just beginning.  With the help of a magical piece of char that the Sweep left her, Nan creates Charlie, a golem, whose sole purpose is to protect her.  Nan and Charlie are trying to make life better for all of the sweeps...but will they succeed?