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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books by Favorite Authors
It’s so hard to chose my favorite authors! I love all different types of authors for different reasons and at different times of my life. But, these ten books by these ten authors are ones that have stuck with me. I wanted to highlight some of my favorite middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors You Wish Were Still Writing Today
This was a fun walk down memory lane as I pulled some of my favorite books and authors from my past to share today! It’s fun to see some of my favorite authors still writing books. When you’re ten years old, everyone seems so old and then you realize they…
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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: Books on My Spring 2026 To-Read List
I always create these posts with so much hope for my future reading life! I get so excited about all the great, new titles that are being published and then something else catches my eye and time passes and before I know it, I’m writing up the post for the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Goals for 2026
Inevitably, I always want to do better with my new year’s resolutions or goals than I actually do. Here’s my list of goals for 2025. Let’s got through them and you can see just how not great I did! Log reading for the year on The Storygraph – Didn’t do…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Modern Books You Think Will Be Classics In the Future
I find it hard to figure out what modern books may become classics because I feel as though all the classic books that I read in school are still part of the curriculum and it’s been quite a while since I was in elementary school. Things like curriculum can take…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed that Were Outside My Comfort Zone
I’ll be the first to admit that I often judge a book by its cover. Covers can tell you a lot about a book, but sometimes they’ll surprise you! So, there’s definitely some truth to the old adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover!” There’s definitely a cover or…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Occupations in the Title
This was a fun list to pull together and I’ll be honest to say I started with a completely different list of books before pivoting to the list I pulled together below. Rather than choose ten different occupations, I decided to share ten books with the word “librarian” in the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count
This theme could also be labeled, “Books that would make great doorstops” because these titles are quite hefty! Almost all of the books I’ve selected are over 1,000 pages and are chunky. And I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve only actually read one of the books on this list…
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Read Alouds for Fifth Graders
I believe that one of the biggest disservices to children when it comes to literacy is that many caregivers stop reading aloud once a child has learned to read. Reading aloud is extremely beneficial to children of all ages and should continue long after they are reading independently. My niece…
