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Donalyn’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Donalyn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Donalyn Miller
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August 13
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The Book Whisperer (Blog) Moves to Substack
Hello! If you are receiving this post via email, you are a past subscriber of The Book Whisperer blog. If you have found my page via search engine, welcome. I have not posted to this page since 2016. For more than a decade, I wrote at least once a month for The Nerdy Book Club. In 2020 and 2021, I wrote a monthly column for School Library Journal.
Working on my fourth and fifth books back-to-back d
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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
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“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.”
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.”
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“I believe that this corporate machinery of scripted programs, comprehension worksheets (reproducibles, handouts, printables, whatever you want to call them), computer-based incentive packages, and test practice curriculum facilitates a solid bottom-line for the companies that sell them, and give schools proof they can point to that they are using every available resource to teach reading, but these efforts are doomed to fail a large number of students because they leave out the most important factor. When you take a forklift and shovel off the programs, underneath it all is a child reading a book.”
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| 100+ Books in 2025: Beth K's 2010 Challange | 2 | 120 | Jan 27, 2010 10:29AM | |
| Between the Lines: Beth K's 2010 Challenge | 52 | 108 | Sep 07, 2010 06:44AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Beth's 2010 Reading Goal | 81 | 358 | Dec 29, 2010 06:38PM | |
| YA Reads for Teac...: June 2012 - Professional Development - The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller | 43 | 101 | Jul 01, 2012 10:29AM | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Summer Challenge 2012: Reading Plans | 39 | 331 | Aug 15, 2012 09:20AM | |
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| Great Middle Grad...: Reviews by Kids - Questions, Feedback, General Discussion | 79 | 155 | May 04, 2013 06:27PM | |
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“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
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“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature
have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,
we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,
we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
Mock Newbery 2026
— 3177 members
— last activity Nov 18, 2025 04:30PM
A discussion group that reads, suggests, and enjoys current children’s literature, while searching for next years Newbery Award winning books.
Mock Printz 2026
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— last activity Nov 10, 2025 02:01PM
Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more
NCBLA 2011
— 7 members
— last activity Jul 07, 2011 08:27AM
A place to discuss books read by the 2011 NCBLA Committee.
Mrs.Miller's class
— 55 members
— last activity Dec 02, 2010 07:14PM
If you are Mrs. Miller's students, present and past, join our group now! ...more
Mrs Millers and Mrs Neys Book Club!
— 27 members
— last activity Jun 04, 2010 06:59PM
If you are in this book club, then join!
No Fear Book Group
— 56 members
— last activity Aug 01, 2014 05:21AM
As members of the North Star Writing Project, this book group has no fear and will read anything.
What Goodreads is all about.
— 24 members
— last activity Feb 27, 2013 04:27PM
Right now there are lot of groups that are basically fan clubs. I just want to make a group that talks about books. Here we can: - Write reviews of bo ...more
Read The Movie
— 26 members
— last activity Nov 15, 2011 10:52PM
For people who want to talk about books being made into movies.
Unputdownables Book Club
— 275 members
— last activity Jun 25, 2015 01:37PM
Welcome! This is a place to continually hunt for books that are so good they are unputdownable! ALL ARE WELCOME: the group is for anyone who is on ...more
YA Reads for Teachers (And Any Other Adults!)
— 1915 members
— last activity Jul 22, 2025 08:45AM
We are a group of educators (teachers, media specialists / librarians, and home school teachers) parents and other adult fans of young adult and child ...more
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Oh. My. Gosh!!!MRS. MILLER!!!
I miss you so much!
I want to come see you soon! How is your class this year? I mean, other than being second best to our class last year, duuh. (:
By the way, I'm in serious need of a good book, any recommendations?
Love,
Your biggest fan. (:
Hello Donalyn,
It's such a pleasure having you as a friend. Thank you and best wishes!
My warmest regards,
CJ