Movie: Mary Poppins Returns Description: Mary Poppins Returns is coming out in December 2018 as a sequel of The Mary Poppins movie from 1964. The movie is adapted from the original book, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers. Readalikes for Gradeschoolers and up Appeals: Family life, Magic, Musical, Adventure Readalikes Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Amazon’s Description: Tommy and his sister Annika have a … Continue reading Mary Poppins Returns Readalikes
Trend: Activism Description: Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social, political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society. Readalikes for Teens Appeals: Social Justice, Taking a Stand, Making a Difference, Seeing that Teens can have a voice Readalikes Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Amazon’s Description: An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texan high school in the new novel from … Continue reading Activism Readalikes
TV Show: Supernatural Description: Two brothers follow their father’s footsteps as “hunters”, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth. Readalikes for Teens Appeals: Supernatural, Fighting, Action, Adventure, Friendship Readalikes Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds Amazon’s Description: Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, … Continue reading Supernatural Readalikes
TV Show: Doctor Who Description: An eccentric yet compassionate extraterrestrial Time Lord zips through time and space to solve problems and battle injustice across the universe, traveling via the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space), which is his old and occasionally unreliable spaceship that resembles a blue police phone box (but changes its appearance depending on its surroundings) and is much, much larger inside than outside. … Continue reading Doctor Who Readalikes
TV Show: The 100 Description: When nuclear Armageddon destroys civilization on Earth, the only survivors are those on the 12 international space stations in orbit at the time. Three generations later, the 4,000 survivors living on a space ark of linked stations see their resources dwindle and face draconian measures established to ensure humanity’s future. Desperately looking for a solution, the ark’s leaders send 100 juvenile prisoners … Continue reading The 100 Readalikes
TV Show: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Description: Created by Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” now in its 20th season, is the longest-running primetime drama currently on television. This hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC’s “Law & Order” brand chronicles the lives of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, an elite squad of detectives who … Continue reading Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Readalikes
App: Fruit Ninja Description: Fruit Ninja The greatest fruit-slicing game in the world. Available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, PS Vita, XBOX Appeals: Fast action, Humorous game Readalikes for Preschoolers Nightime Ninja by Barbara Dacosta Scholastic summary: Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure. Soon he reaches his ultimate … Continue reading Fruit Ninja App Readalikes
