By the Book: Terrie Bishop, Academy Park Elementary

Terrie Bishop is the media clerk at Academy Park Elementary School. She has been working for Granite School District as a media clerk for 24 years. She brings an incredible wealth of knowledge about children’s literature and does some great read alouds for older students at her school.

By the Book

What books are currently on your nightstand?


100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and the Book of Mormon.

What was the last great book you read?

Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

The last book that made you cry?

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

The last book that made you laugh?

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

What kind of reader were you as a child? What childhood books and authors stick with you the most?

Loved the Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Beldon. Always loved to read and had a desire to read and study the classics.

What is the best book you were required to read as a student?


To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, King Lear by William Shakespeare and Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.

What book did you hate reading as a student?

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

What is your favorite book to recommend to children?


Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret

If you could only bring three books to a desert island, which would you pack?

Ugh!! Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the complete series of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. This is a horrible question!

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