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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/27/16
Summer reading means being busy all week and this weekend was packed with birthday parties, barbeques and graduation parties. That being said, I did get to do some reading – and some great stories at that! I read The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald, who also wrote Under the Egg. I love art…
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Level Up: Pairing Video Games with Children’s and YA Books (Sports Games)
Each Thursday this summer, I’ll be posting a video game and corresponding book list. This is just a fun, personal project that was actually the brainchild of my boyfriend who thought that A) it sounded awesome and B) that there are a lot of parents who would love to have…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Middle Grade 2016 Releases So Far This Year
I decided that although I love a lot of the books coming out this year by popular authors such as Kate DiCamillo, Kwame Alexander and other books creating a buzz in the children’s literature world, I chose to highlight some that I enjoyed by other authors. So without further ado,…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/20/16
I got through two of the books I planned this week – The Cresswell Plot by Eliza Wass about a group of siblings who live with their parents, but you’ll learn as the story progresses that the father believes he hears messages directly from God and keeps the kids close to…
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Book Review: Wolf Hollow
“The year I turned twelve, I learned how to lie. The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and did mattered.” And with those words, you’ll meet Annabelle a 12-year old girl, living in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1940s. Her life is fairly simple, helping her…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/13/16
So, as I mentioned two weeks ago, my mom was visiting last weekend and I was so busy with her, I forgot to post an update last Monday, so here’s my two week update. I read The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore which was really interesting – I believe another…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/30/16
I’m so proud of myself this week! I read all three books that were on my list from last week. Nothing But Trouble by Jacqueline Davies is a fun story about two girls who couldn’t be more opposite and yet become friends and co-conspirators to increase class spirit in a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed
I chose to stray just a little from this week’s topic because my feelings towards books usually stay fairly similar from when I read them and as time passes. As I’ve said before graphic novels aren’t my favorite format for reading, but I’ve read many graphic novels that I really…
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National Readthon Day
Today is National Readathon Day, the second annual event hosted by Penguin Random House and the American Library Association. I’m apparently not a very good blogger because I didn’t pay attention to this until this week and haven’t had time to check out the website with great ways to throw…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim
Most of the books I read, I learn about through various blogs, Twitter mentions, and talking with colleagues, but every once in a while I’ll just pick something up as I ‘m assigning a call number to it. Some of these are also ARCs that I received at ac conference…