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Professional Development with the Cardigan Newsletter
I know as a former children’s librarian how difficult it can be to find quality professional development content to keep learning and growing in the job. It’s almost a second job scouring the Internet, reading articles only to find out that it really doesn’t apply to your work. I really,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes is the type of list is always hard for me to write up because I honestly really enjoy most everything I read, but if you had to ask me what my favorite types of stories are they would include a little bit of the following…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/19/19
Last Week I did it! I finished the whole list of MG @ Heart Summer Book Bingo list this week! I’m so glad that I spent my summer reading these amazing titles. And while I was at it, I also read the YA romance, Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh, the…
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6th-8th Grade Back To School Reading List
Response I’d say that there are hundreds, if not thousands of schools across the country with school reading lists that mirror this reading list posted on Twitter by the Florida Department of Education. The list of titles includes a majority of authors that are, for a lack of a better…
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9 Picture Books All About School Buses
School’s not quite back in session in my area, but I’ve already begun to see the school buses out and about. They’re practicing their routes and getting serviced ready to welcome school children aboard in just a few weeks. If your little one is stepping onto a school bus for…
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Four on Friday: Ocean Animals
I’m so enjoying creating these mini-booklists and as a sucker for alliteration, the name works so well for Fridays. Today theme is Four on Friday: Ocean Animals! My favorite animals of all time are dolphins. I love how sleek and smooth they are swimming through the ocean, leaping with such…
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Summer of Nonfiction: Graphic Novels
Nonfiction and graphic novels is a little bit of an oxymoron. Something can’t be classified as a novel and as nonfiction, but I never quite know what to call these books – graphic nonfiction or nonfiction comics? I don’t know. What I do know is that nonfiction titles in a…
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The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
Synopsis: “When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides to set off on a “New Life Plan”: 1) do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2) find a new best friend; and 3) kiss a boy for the first time. Her “New Life Plan” seems to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Characters I’d Love to Be Besties With
Being an adult and reading middle grade novels doesn’t always lend itself to becoming besties with 12-year-olds. But nevertheless, here are ten characters that have stayed in my mind and heart for a long time after I read their stories. I love strong girls searching for their place in the…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/12/19
Last Week I’m still working on the MG @ Heart Summer Book Bingo list and I’ll be honest, this was a great way to spend my summer – reading so many amazing books. I hope that I would have read them anyway, but it’s always nice to hear about other…
