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AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Therapy Dog
Program Name: Paws to Read What: This has been an extremely popular program during our Summer Reading program where elementary children get a chance to read aloud to our library’s therapy greyhound. This dog is fairly large, about 80lbs. but is the most gentle dog I’ve ever met -so calm and relaxed…
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AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Math Madness
Program Name: Math Madness What: This is a hands-on learning program about math for kids in elementary school. We have found that the kids continue to try and show off they math knowledge, but have very few skills that we would consider math basics. They can name a tetrahedron, but don’t know…
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#blogbookaday: This Is Not a Valentine
Summary: “This book is not a valentine. It doesn’t have lacey edges or sugary hearts. But it is full of lucky rocks, secret hiding spots, and gumball machine treasures. This is a book about waiting in line and wishing for cinnamon buns. About recognizing that if you care so much about…
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Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship
Synopsis: “How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don’t know each other . . . and they’re not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of…
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Play With Stickers & Learn Cool Facts with Sticky Facts (What Will You Find?)
If you’re looking for something really interactive and interesting to give to your favorite 6-10 year old, look no further that Workman Publishing’s new series – Sticky Facts: What Will You Find? With three titles already available and more on the way, these are great nonfiction titles that really get kids…
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20 Titles for National Foster Care Month
I’m always looking for ways to create book lists that I think are needed by people around the world, so when I saw that May is National Foster Care Month, I knew it would be a great time to gather some titles that show kids in foster care. I tried…
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30 Chapter Books Featuring Black Protagonists
I started this just as a middle grade list, but didn’t want to ignore the littles who are just starting out in the chapter books world, so I featured books for kids from about 1st/2nd grade to 8th grade. Of course, you don’t have to be in elementary or middle school…
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Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards
The 2017 Children’ & Teen Choice Book Awards are ready to be voted on from March 3 – May 7. This is the only national book award that is voted on only by kids and teens. A number of schools and states have their own awards, but this is the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2016 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To (Graphic Novel style)
So I took this topic and focused solely on the graphic novels I want to read. I’ve got a HUGE list of titles from the Nerdies Awards that I’d like to get to so I wanted to narrow my list a little and focus just on graphic novels. As you…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/9/17
I went through a bunch of picture books this week as I’m trying to go through all the Nerdies winners – I’ve finished all the picture book and easy reader/chapter books. This week included: The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation by Shannon Hale I love this series – a…