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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,…
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Rocket Ship Storytime
Continuing on in my quest to provide storytime themes for this Summer Reading themes – A Universe of Stories, here’s my next storytime all about rocket ships! Storytime Plan Introduction Bread & Butter Bread and butterMarmalade and JamLet’s say hello as quiet as we can (whisper: hello)…loud as we can…
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Summer of Nonfiction: Middle Grade
Middle grade titles are often my wheelhouse and although I don’t read as much nonfiction as I should, I do love the books I have picked up. I’ve said it before – nonfiction titles are nothing like they used to be. I remember growing up reading dry facts with pen…
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The Wonder that Is You
Synopsis: The Wonder That Is You is “A heartwarming book that beautifully captures the universal love and joy parents feel as they celebrate the arrival of their new child. A perfect gift for baby showers, baptisms, adoptions, birthdays, or any time you want to tell your little one how much…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-Buy Authors
Although I don’t add a lot of titles to my personal library, I do love each and every one of these authors’ works and will read them as quickly as possible and talk about them here on my blog! Angie Thomas Sarah Dessen Sandhya Menon Mackenzi Lee Jason Reynolds Padma…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/15/19
Last Week I took a whole week to recover from my family’s visit the week before! I was so tired all week that I went to bed early every night and didn’t get too much reading in. I did finish up The Jumbie God’s Revenge which is the third book…
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Star Storytime
I love the stars, especially when you’re in the middle of nowhere and they’re so bright it almost feels like you can reach out and touch them. Check out these great star picture books to share with your little ones in a formal storytime or to take home with you…
