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Top Ten Tuesday: YA Books for America’s 250th Anniversary
The celebration of America’s Birthday/Anniversary/Semiquincentennial is coming soon and I wanted to take some time to explore the title that are available for kids and teens. Let me tell you, this was trickier than I ever expected! While historical fiction for teens exists, there isn’t a ton of it focused…
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Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers
It’s April and while the weather outside Philadelphia has ranged everywhere from the 30s to 89 degrees, these romance novels featuring umbrellas on the cover are kind of the perfect springtime books to share. Ironically, I don’t often use an umbrella as I hate carrying a wet umbrella that’s dripping…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Green YA Book Covers
I love these types of topics for Top Ten Tuesday themes. It brings together books that you might not normally see on the same book list. It doesn’t matter what the genre is, rather our focus is solely on selecting book covers that are a specific color, in this case…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Winter 2024 To-Read List
There are some amazing looking titles that are getting published this winter! I pulled just a couple of the middle grade and young adult titles that caught my eye, but I’m sure there will be plenty more. That’s probably one of the best parts about working in a library –…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Red & White Covers
It’s another week of Top Ten Tuesday and it’s a freebie week! Normally, I get to one of these weeks and completely freeze! I actually have to think of a topic and I have to pull together a list of books?!?!? But, my library gave me inspiration this week. We’re…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Contemporary Romance Set at Christmas
With a wider-theme for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, set in…., I decided to focus on books set at Christmas and since I’ve already shared books for kids and teens, I decided to take a closer look at contemporary romances. So, if you’re a fan of Hallmark movies during the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Mainstream Authors I Haven’t Read
This was the easiest Top Ten Tuesday theme I think I’ve ever done! I’m not one for reading a lot of the mainstream authors that you’ll find on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Usually, it’s because there’s such a long holds list at the library, and by the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines
I like this spin on the Top Ten Tuesday theme! And while my titles may be a little bit of a stretch in some places or bylines in others, it was fun to think about book titles in a different way. I found that the middle grade novels seemed a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Are a Treat to Read
Today is a Halloween freebie for Top Ten Tuesday! And while I was thinking about what to focus on for this week’s theme, I decided to go with a Halloween theme of trick-or-treat and focus on really fun picture books. These ten picture books are fun, interactive titles that will…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Atmospheric YA Reads
When I saw today’s theme, I started laughing because I had literally just created a list of 9 Atomspheric Middle Grade Titles last week. For today’s list, I decided to focus on YA titles. And while, I’m a scaredy cat when it comes to creepy books, I wanted to pull…
