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Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Books with Orange Covers
This is a Freebie week for Top Ten Tuesday, which means I get to pick my own topic. And the pressure to come up with really great titles to highlight. I didn’t come up with too many bright ideas while I was brainstorming. But I did remember when I had…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/29/19
Last Week I love when a weekend has a good balance between getting stuff done (cleaning, laundry, chores, etc.) and spending time with friends and having fun! This past weekend was a little bit of everything, but I will say it helps that I took Friday off of work to…
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9 Books to Celebrate National Milk Chocolate Day
I love starting my day not knowing exactly where it’s going! I wanted to make sure to post today but didn’t have too much of an idea of what to write about. So after perusing the Internet for a bit, I came across today’s holidays and it’s National Milk Chocolate…
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9 Picture Books About Gardens
It’s Saturday in late July which means I’ll be spending much of my day working on my garden beds. I have a flower garden in front of my house (that is currently being taken over by weeds) and a vegetable garden that runs along the side of my house filled…
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Summer of Nonfiction: Young Adult
In my Summer of Nonfiction: Young Adult list, I tried to include a diverse list of titles including personal memoirs, major historical events, and a few titles about events or people you might not even be aware of! As with my middle grade nonfiction list, there could be a number…
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Aliens from Outer Space Storytime
Today’s storytime theme focuses on the fantastical aspects of outer space – Aliens! It’s perfect for this year’s Summer Reading theme – A Universe of Stories or could be used as part of a theme around other fun creatures like unicorns and monsters, maybe for a Halloween theme! If you…
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Silver Meadows Summer
Synopsis: “Eleven-year-old Carolina’s summer—and life as she knows it—is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter’s house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Settings I’d Like to See More Of
I love when the setting because almost like a character in a book I’m reading. If authors can make me feel like I’m in the book and can picture where the characters live their life – that’s the perfect setting to me! Some of these are generalized locations or while…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/22/19
Last Week It’s been such a busy week! And I’m excited to say I survived the excessive heat all weekend. It was positively disgusting when I took the pup for a very brief walk around the block at 9:30 at night and the feels like temperature was still at 100˚…
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6 Picture Books About Breakfast
As I was getting ready to make breakfast this morning, I realized that it would make the perfect content to share this morning! There’s your classic Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and new titles like Everyone Loves Bacon by Kelly DiPucchio. Whatever you like to eat for breakfast,…
