One of the students, who can often be hard to engage, said, “Can you order it right now so you don’t forget?” That– is what a book should do. When we finished today, I immediately said, I will order the next one today. We were all excited because yesterday we looked at the Scholastic order and saw that The Shadow Throne (the third in the trilogy) is now out. When students are telling you: “We will work extra hard if you just read us one more chapter”, it is really difficult to say no. We fell into The Runaway King so far that we may or may not have skipped a few math lessons. I gave them other choices (all the while wanting them to choose The Runaway King) but it was a unanimous decision–we needed to know what happened to Sage/Jaron. The students decided that we absolutely must read The Runaway King immediately after. It was every bit as good as Carolyn had said. I read the False Prince because Carolyn recommended it so highly and I always want books that will engage the students, especially those reluctant readers. This is completely not the case with Jennifer A Nielsen’s series. That’s why Oceans 11 is awesome and Oceans 13…not so much.
When an artist– song writer, author, movie maker– puts out something incredible, there’s always the skepticism that the follow up cannot possibly surpass the greatness of the original.
Some books that no matter how many books you read after, they will always stand out. Nielsen Chapter book for middle grade readers published by Scholastic
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