Yanuell wanted to begin his morning by rereading, I am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer. He was thrilled to go back through and discuss the things he had learned. After reading, discussing, and analyzing, Yanuell wanted to do some Jackie Robinson research, so we found a great website called: www.jackierobinsonchangedsports.weebly.com. This site contains a great deal of information about Robinson's life. We learned about his sports accomplishments at UCLA, his time served in the military, his work on the Civil Rights Movement, and of course, he incredible baseball career. Yanuell was excited to see a picture of Jackie Robinson with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon completion of this work, Yanuell took a trip to the library. We immediately picked up: I am Jane Goodall and I am George Washington, two books that we had put on hold last week. In addition to these, Yanuell spent quality time in the stacks choosing new books. He got biographies of Jane Goodall and Jackie Robinson and also checked out books about chimpanzees, lions, tsunamis, Thomas Jefferson. Yanuell was interested in checking out an I Survived chapter book. This series tells amazing true survival stories. This specific book is called I Survived: Five Epic Disasters and features stories about Tsunamis, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Floods, and the Titanic. He is looking forward to trying a new chapter book. After checking out the new books, we reserved a library study room and went there to read. After sorting and organizing the books by subject, Yanuell decided to read: Tsunamis by John Hamilton. In this nonfiction book, Hamilton describes the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster and explains the causes and nature of tsunamis. Information is shared about the tsunamis in Hawaii in 1960, Alaska in 1964, and Krakatoa in 1883. The book included a closing chapter that covers the risk of future tsunamis. We discussed this at length and reviewed why we wouldn't have tsunamis in Florida. The book included excellent, informative color photos include several that we had never seen in previous tsunami research. After reading and discussing the book together, Yanuell took some time to re-read it to himself which truly shows how his reading maturity has grown! Next we transitioned to some Jane Goodall research. Yanuell looked through the Jane Goodall biographies that we had checked out and watched a short National Geographic video about her life. We then dove into, I am Jane Goodall by Brad Meltzer. This tenth book in the "I am" series features Jane Goodall, the scientist and conservationist who is famous for her work with chimpanzees. The story of Jane Goodall immediately inspired Yanuell. The book included great lessons about following your dreams, equal opportunity for women, how being smart is important and cool, care and empathy for animals, value in science and research and geographical lessons as well. As always, Brad Meltzer's love of history shines through and infuses a spirit of learning and aspiration. We cannot get enough of his incredible biographies!