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Reading Is More Than Just Books
If you’ve got a kid in your family, in your classroom, in your library who just doesn’t like to read, have you tried introducing them to something other than books? Reading Is More Than Just Books – if you’ve got a self-proclaimed nonreader at home, try magazines with tons of…
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The Magical Imperfect
Synopsis: “For fans of Wonder, Chris Baron’s The Magical Imperfect is an affecting middle grade story of two outcasts who become friends… Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don’t know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences
There are a lot of books whose titles are complete sentences. Especially picture books with questions for titles. This list includes a little bit of everything from picture books to young adult novels. It also has statements, questions, and exclamations too! Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences Al Capone Does…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/17/2021
What I Read Between the CDC lifting a lot of regulations around mask-wearing on a random Thursday, which left me sending a bunch of emails to my manager and staff about the following morning and driving out to my parents’ house for a quick weekend trip to help work on…
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Four on Friday: National Dance Like a Chicken Day
Who knew? It’s National Dance Like a Chicken Day! And honestly, I can’t think of anything else but the Arrested Development characters making fun of each and calling each other chicken! But, besides this awesome gif, I also found some really great chicken picture books for today’s post! There’s an…
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9 Books to Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr
From sundown yesterday to sundown this evening, Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid Al-Fitr. This festival celebrates the end of fasting during the month of Ramadan. I didn’t have a lot of luck finding many books about this holiday, but I found a few I wanted to share. Many…
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Wild Survival: Crocodile Rescue
Synopsis: “Twelve-year-old Adriana Villalobos and her older brother Feye travel the globe with their parents, the hosts of a suspenseful nature show called “Wild Survival!” The show features daring animal rescues and the work the family does at their animal sanctuary. They’ve recently gotten an offer to take the show…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Nature on the Cover
Books with Nature on the Cover can go in so many different directions! I thought at first to share some picture books with really bright, vibrant covers full of flowers. But, as I started looking for inspiration, I came across these middle grade covers with trees. What I love is…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/10/2021
What I Read Why can’t weekends just last a little longer? I had such great plans to read this weekend and it just didn’t happen! This week I finished All You Knead is Love by Tanya Guerrero – it was really great! If I wasn’t trying to eat a little…
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We Must Not Forget
Synopsis: “As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis’ Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state’s genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called “inferior” races. Yet so many of the individual stories…
