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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To
While today’s prompt is 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To, there are so many books I haven’t gotten to yet! So, I decided to create a list of ten middle grade titles that I really want to read and even have some of these…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024
These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…
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ALA’s 2025 Youth Media Awards
This morning, the American Library Association announced the Youth Media Awards. The most popular being the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. But, in actuality, there are over 20 award announcements this morning! Today, I’m sharing the winners and honors and a little note about what each award is for and what…
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2025 YA Summer Reads
It’s only January and I know it’s a little too early to think about summer reads, but hear me out – May/June will be here before you know it and I think it’s a great idea to get some books on a summer reading goals list soon so that they…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…
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My Weird School Read Alikes
My Weird School by Dan Gutman follows A. J. and his friends as they get into hijinks at their ridiculous school with silly teachers, crazy principal, and more! This series is perfect for kids who have successfully mastered the easy reader and are looking for a bit more challenging book.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025
In order to work on my bookish goals for 2025, I thought it might be smart to look back at my goals for 2024. And not surprising after the year that I had, I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to in terms of these goals. I was really…
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STEM Board Books for Little Ones
Babies and toddlers are naturally curious which is the perfect time to introduce them to all sorts of information, vocabulary, and background knowledge. While I don’t expect to drill babies and toddlers with flash cards and tests, I do think that introducing kids to information about the world around them…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025
There are so many amazing books being published just in January, I didn’t even really get past this month of new titles! I grabbed one picture book that was published in December that looks absolutely adorable – Ten-Word Tiny Tales for Love and Laurie Halse Anderson has a new historical…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2024
I’m going to come right out and say it, these may not have been the best books I read in 2024, but they were some that I really enjoyed reading/learning from. I didn’t read as many books as I had expected to in 2024, but I don’t put too much…
