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New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, I, like so many others, jump on the resolutions bandwagon only to fore go my resoultions a few weeks into the new year. This year after some serious consideration, I’ve decided that I’m going to take a break from resolutions and continue to do the things that I…
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2012 Cybils Shortlist
The Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards have announced the shortlist for 2012! Definitely take a look as these are some of the great books published during the past year. Winners will be announced on February 14th and the judges are people who regularly submit to a blog about…
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2012 Nerdies Book Awards
If you don’t follow The Nerdy Book Club blog, you are definitely missing out! The blog is written by three school teachers from different schools across the country and blog book reviews and other information about children’s books. They specifically have created their own awards called The Nerdies Book Awards where books…
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
Create a new tradition and read a few Christmas stories on your own or share some with you family today! One of my favorites is The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Every time I read it, I can hear my mom’s voice reading this story to us when we…
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Graphic Novel declared a Terrorist Operation????
A war correspondent, David Axe, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo and wrote a middle grade graphic novel about the “Lord’s Resistance Army” called Army of God. After finding an illustrator and publisher, his graphic novel has now been flagged by the United States Office of Foreign Asset Control…
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Christmas means….
In my parent’s house, Christmas means my dad setting up his model trains from when he was young and my mom baking in the kitchen, and watching White Christmas with everyone. Growing up with three siblings my mom used baking as a way to spend time with each of…
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It’s That Time of Year…
I absolutely love the holidays! Beginning the Wednesday before Thanksgiving all the way to New Year’s Day – I love it! I love being with my family for Thanksgiving, listening to Christmas music, finding that perfect gift for someone, absolutely everything about the holidays! This weekend I got to spend…
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Best Books List
I have to say the end of the year brings with it a lot of fun – especially in the form of Top 10 and Best Books Lists. The New York Public Library has pulled together the top 100 books for reading and sharing this year. What’s great about this…
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Copyright Laws & “Read It” Parody
This is a news story coming out of my backyard, so I had to share! The Lansdowne Public Library teen group created a parody of Michael Jackson’s famous song, “Beat It” and called it “Read It.” The teens created their own music video encouraging people to read physical books, e-books,…
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Hurricane Sandy Update 2.0
My thoughts and prayers go out to all of those who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. Thankfully we were able to have power the entire day/night and today and I got to the store to find dinner food to feed all my friends without power. We didn’t have access…