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31 Days, 31 Lists, Fuse #8 Production
If you’re not familiar with A Fuse #8 Production, it’s a blog hosted on School Library Journal. It’s written by Betsy Bird, the Collection Manager for Evanston Public Libary. She has also served on the Newbery Committee and written for Horn Book. I’m going to say it, she knows her…
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Four on Friday: Foster Care
This summer and into the fall I read a number of middle grade novels centered around foster care. According to AdoptUSKids.org, there are over 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. This means that most likely whether you know it or not, there are foster kids in your…
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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 12
It’s Day 12 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, which means it’s your last chance to enter to win one of these awesome sets of books! I can’t believe it’s already been 12 days of giveaways and I’m excited to start announcing the winners once all the giveaways are…
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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 11
Although it’s only Wednesday, I feel like it should already be Friday! Yesterday was one of those days in the library when weird stuff just kept happening – broken computers, complaints, and meetings. So, it makes me happy to share these young adult titles today for Day 11 Giveaway! The…
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2020 CLEL Bell Shortlist
The 2020 CLEL Bell Shortlist was announced on December 9th and you definitely need to check out this great list of 25 picture book titles. The CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards “are an annual recognition of five high-quality picture books that provide excellent support of early literacy development in young…
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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 10
It’s Day 10 of the giveaway which means you only have a few more hours to enter Day 1’s raffle! Remember, each giveaway will be available for ten days, so scroll down to find the links for all the previous days’ giveaways and enter now! Today’s giveaway includes two middle…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Star Wars Books for All Ages
With the newest Star Wars movie set to release in just a few weeks, a new television series on Disney +, and a new theme park in Disney, Star Wars is everywhere you look these days, including in books! Here are just ten titles from board books to graphic novels,…
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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 9
Back to work on a Monday with a bunch of projects to try and finish up before the year’s end. I always want to believe that work will slow down as we wind down for the year – we’re not buying too much more, there aren’t as many people coming…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 12/9/19
Last Week I did it! I finished all three books on my reading list this week! That never happens! I tried to read a little bit each night before going to bed and spent some time on Saturday reading as well which was perfect. I read With the Fire on…
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12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 8
Today’s plans include Christmas cooking baking with some of my girl friends. This is our second year doing something like this and it’s just a lot of fun getting together and spending time together. We’ll most likely be decorating sugar cookies and then we each bring a recipe to bake…
