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The Best of…
It’s that time of year when the Best Of… lists start rolling out! I love to see what others think are the best in each genre for the year. Sometime I agree, sometime I don’t, but I almost always get some new titles from these lists. Check out Chicago Public…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR List
Besides the Best of 2017 lists and the ALA Youth Media Awards on February 12th, I’ve included ten new middle grade titles that I’m excited about! Check ’em out! Flower Moon by Gina Linko (January 2, 2018) The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor (January 23, 2018)…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/27/17
As expected, I didn’t get as much reading done as I expected to this week, as I was spending much of my week with family for Thanksgiving. I was able to finish The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar which are both set in the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'm Thankful For
This list could go on forever, so I tried to force myself to keep to titles that I’m thankful for that were published this year in middle grade fiction. I still had a lot more titles that I would love to highlight, but here’s what I came up with for…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/19/17
I wasn’t able to get to all my reading this week, but I got to finish a few titles and honestly didn’t expect to finish as much as I did. This week I read: Me and Marvin Gardens by A.S. King Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry Patina by Jason…
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Picture Book Month: Family
A story about families in a round about sort of way. If you read the text, the books is really all about how important and special your skin is, but when you look closer at the illustrations this beautiful story shows such diverse characters, it’s fun to pour over all…
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Native American Authors
It’s Native American Heritage Month and that means you get a special book list of children’s and young adult titles written by Native Americans! Rather than just focusing on characters who identify with a Native American tribe, I’ve highlighted 20 different authors on this list (and there are more!) that…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want My Future Children to Read
There are so many amazing books available to kids in this day and age. It was hard to pick just ten, but I focused on ten titles that show a wide diversity in terms of culture, gender, race, ability, socioeconomic status and more. It’s important for kids to see all…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/13/17
I must say, I kicked butt reading this week and boy does it feel good! Work has slowed down a little bit and with few evening commitments and a cell phone sitting in a bag of rice (phones + toilets don’t mix), I read more than I have in a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Great Leaders
I decided to go with strong female characters who I think would make great leaders, granted most of these characters are young, so we might need to wait a few years before they’d be of age to become great leaders, but I think they have the characteristics that make great…