It's Monday! What are you reading?

I tell students that favorite books are like good friends--we don't just visit them once.  So last night I pulled Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Lunch Lady and the Field Trip Fiasco from my coffee table for a reread.

The Field Trip Fiasco is the sixth book in the Lunch Lady series.  They don't necessarily have to be read in order, which is a plus in an elementary library with a clientele that really likes their graphic novels.  With spare language, only one to five frames per page, and illustrations in black, white, and yellow, the Lunch Lady series is a perfect fit for strong first grade readers on up, or those who struggle with reading and visual literacy.  Food references abound with phrases like "Sweet salami!" and "Salty crackers!".  Spyware comes in the form of a spork phone and GPS tracking gum; weapons of choice are truth-serum brownies and plastic wrap.

Vocabulary words I could pull from the first half alone of Field Trip Fiasco:

fiasco	magnificent	statue
medieval	pigments	curiosity
samurai	majesty	admirable
chaperone	"concerned citizen"	dungeon
mathlete	dense	Middle Ages
enrichment	hieroglyphics	European
artifacts	surrealist	mosaics
congratulations	ancient	spectacular

Our Lunch Lady books fly off our library shelves!  It's Monday; what graphic novels have you read lately?