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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon written by Steve Sheinkin, is another non-fiction title that makes a difficult topic easy to understand, interesting to read about, and accessible to a wider audience. I’ll admit, it’s been awhile since I’ve taken a U.S.…
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
Children’s non-fiction books have been in the spotlight recently with the focus on Common Core Standards in the education field. That being said, many authors are creating non-fiction books that are more easily accessible and interesting to kids. Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 written…
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Copyright Laws & “Read It” Parody
This is a news story coming out of my backyard, so I had to share! The Lansdowne Public Library teen group created a parody of Michael Jackson’s famous song, “Beat It” and called it “Read It.” The teens created their own music video encouraging people to read physical books, e-books,…
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Palace of Stone (Princess Academy #2)
I have to admit, I still love a good princess story! Overall, I really enjoyed Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale the follow-up story to The Princess Academy. Miri travels to Asland to attend the Queen’s College and becomes a lady of the court to her friend, Britta. But after having grow…
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What Came From the Stars
What Came From the Stars by Gary Schmidt is a high-fantasy story about a young boy, Tommy, who finds a magical necklace from another planet in his lunchbox and what ensues can only be explained as chaos. I had a really hard time with this book – I’m not much of…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m just stopping in for a hot minute to wish all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving this year! If you have time take a look at the picture entitled The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz. A story about a pumpkin who just doesn’t seem to fit in, until he realizes that he…
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Those Darn Squirrels
If you need to think happy thoughts to get you through the holidays or just need something to chuckle about, definitely take a look at Adam Rubin’s . This book is absolutely hysterical from the text to the pictures Rubin and illustrator, Daniel Salmieri, got it right. Those Darn Squirrels…
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The Great Unexpected
“I had big thoughts to match the big wind. I wondered if we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered if we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or if we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was…
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Almost Home
Almost Home written by one of my personal favorites – Joan Bauer and is about a 12-year-old girl named Sugar. When her grandfather dies and her father runs off yet again, Sugar’s mother loses their home and Sugar is left homeless – lost and confused and unsure where to turn.…
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Story Time Theme – Grandparents
This was my last week of story times for the fall season and I decided it was high time we celebrated grandparents. My grandparents live half-way across the country and I don’t get to see them as much as I would like. Plus they are getting older and as their…