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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Emily Barth Isler’s Followers (67)
2,980 books
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Emily Barth Isler
Goodreads Author
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February 2008
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AfterMath
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2021
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The Color of Sound
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2024
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Three Pieces of Broken Glass: A Picture Book
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Color of Sound
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Aftermath
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Emily’s Recent Updates
"4.5 stars
Books always ascend to a new level when they can make me cry. This made me cry multiple times in the last 30 pages or so. There is so much emotion layered into this book, so much tenderness and care and heart. I want to fall into the arms of" Read more of this review » |
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"Three Pieces of Broken Glass is a luminous and deeply moving picture book that explores memory, history, and resilience through a simple yet powerful symbol.
Emily Barth Isler weaves together personal and historical moments, using the image of broken " Read more of this review » |
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"Oh, this book is stunning! What a powerful story of strength and resilience in difficult times. This book — based on the author's grandmother's experiences— tells the story of three pieces of broken glass and how each ties to Grandma Inge's life. One"
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Emily Barth
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Martha Simpson's review
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Three Pieces of Broken Glass: A Picture Book:
"The bond between a girl and her great-grandmother becomes even stronger after the girl accidentally breaks a crystal goblet. When the girl starts to cry, Great-Grandma Inge tells her that breaking glass can sometimes mean good luck, and is also a Jew"
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“Grandpa puts an arm around my shoulders gingerly. "Some things are too painful to share. Some memories are best left alone until we're able to tell them as the hard part of a much longer, much more beautiful story.”
― The Color of Sound
― The Color of Sound
“Mom shakes her head, and suddenly I hear it. She isn't just red. She never has been. This whole time, I've heard the wrong notes. My mother has all this blue just beneath the surface. She's been purple all along. Anger plus sadness is purple.
Purple is vivid and real and layered. Purple is what you are when you can sing two notes at once, when you hear harmony with every melody before you even learn the notes. Purple is what I've seen in Shanna's eyes sometimes. You sound purple if you've ever cried your eyes out at night. You're purple if you love someone who can't love you back the way you want to be loved--the way you need it.”
― The Color of Sound
Purple is vivid and real and layered. Purple is what you are when you can sing two notes at once, when you hear harmony with every melody before you even learn the notes. Purple is what I've seen in Shanna's eyes sometimes. You sound purple if you've ever cried your eyes out at night. You're purple if you love someone who can't love you back the way you want to be loved--the way you need it.”
― The Color of Sound
Polls
What book should we read in May?
As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2025 Newbery contender and already published.
As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2025 Newbery contender and already published.
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
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Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu
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The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming
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Ferris
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Night War
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127 total votes
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“Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.”
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“Grandpa puts an arm around my shoulders gingerly. "Some things are too painful to share. Some memories are best left alone until we're able to tell them as the hard part of a much longer, much more beautiful story.”
― The Color of Sound
― The Color of Sound
“Mom shakes her head, and suddenly I hear it. She isn't just red. She never has been. This whole time, I've heard the wrong notes. My mother has all this blue just beneath the surface. She's been purple all along. Anger plus sadness is purple.
Purple is vivid and real and layered. Purple is what you are when you can sing two notes at once, when you hear harmony with every melody before you even learn the notes. Purple is what I've seen in Shanna's eyes sometimes. You sound purple if you've ever cried your eyes out at night. You're purple if you love someone who can't love you back the way you want to be loved--the way you need it.”
― The Color of Sound
Purple is vivid and real and layered. Purple is what you are when you can sing two notes at once, when you hear harmony with every melody before you even learn the notes. Purple is what I've seen in Shanna's eyes sometimes. You sound purple if you've ever cried your eyes out at night. You're purple if you love someone who can't love you back the way you want to be loved--the way you need it.”
― The Color of Sound
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