The Weekend Comma

  My copy of The Million Dollar Race by Matthew Ross Smith Say hello to your new comma! This week we are going to talk about The Million Dollar Race, a competitive but funny novel for all those who cherish friends and family, but also love the passion of sports. I know you all are probably excited to get started, so I won't keep you waiting! The Million Dollar Race is a novel about a boy named Grant Falloon, a boy who's really good at track. He's so good, he's close to beating the world record time for his age group. One day, Babblemoney Sneaker Company launches an international competition to find who the fastest kid runner in the world is, and guess who signing up? Grant. But it's not that easy with his family. He soon finds out the hard way that his family didn't get him a legal birth certificate. He can't represent the United States in the race. But if he really wants to compete, then the only option is... to create his own country.  If you feel like you...

My copy of Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Megan Mee Nutter Welcome to your new comma! Today we are going to talk about a funny but heart melting book named Squished, by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter. Where are all the graphic novel fans? This one’s for y’all!  Squished is a graphic novel about a girl named Avery Lee, who is squished by her 6 siblings every day, when all she wants is to be by herself and paint. But when her older brother, Theo, gets his own room, and her baby brother, Max, has to move in to the room she already shares with her sister, she gets upset. She tries many ways to get a room, but nothing works. And it doesn’t help that her best friend was going to someone else to gossip with, Max won’t sleep at night, and she had to work on her project for the art fair. So when her parents decide they might move to Oregon, things get even harder. Does this summary interest you? Because it interests me a lot! Did you know that I’ve read this book 7 times? It...