Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Fifteen-year-old Alice Montgomery wakes up in the lobby of the B&B where she has been vacationing with her family to a startling discovery: no one can see or hear her. The cheap desk lights have been replaced with gas lamps and the linoleum floor with hardwood and rich Oriental carpeting. Someone has replaced the artwork with eerie paintings of Elizabeth Blackwell, the insane actress and rumored witch who killed herself at the hotel in the 1880s. Alice watches from behind the looking glass where she is haunted by Elizabeth Blackwell. Trapped in the 19th-century version of the hotel, Alice must figure out a way to break Elizabeth’s curse—with the help of Elizabeth’s old diary and Tony, the son of a ghost hunter who is investigating the haunted B&B—before she becomes the inn’s next victim.
And everywhere were the mirrors, so perfectly smooth, so flawless that she could not tell where one ended and another began. The same girl peeked at her from ten different places. It took her a moment to realize that this thin, tired face was her own — reflected again and again and again.
Perhaps this was what forever felt like.
~ 75%, The Looking Glass by Jessica Arnold
“…in high-achieving classrooms, kids spent significant amounts of time engaged in discussions about their reading and learning. Classroom that promote active literacy reverberate with what Allington describes as “purposeful talk”–conversations and discussions that further thinking.”
~ p. 53, Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
What are you reading this week?