• Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/28/15

    Over the course of the week, I finished Serafina and the Black Cloak and absolutely loved it!  I also read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, which made me want the sequel immediately!  And I started working on Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones.  I didn’t get to any…

  • Lifestyle

    Skype Author Visit

    It’s been an eventful week already!  We have a pretty large grant due on Friday, we had our first middle school program of the school year on Monday night, I spent yesterday and this morning at Penn State for a committee meeting, (quickly) drove back to the library for a…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/21/15

    This week I read Appleblossom the Possum written by Holly Goldberg Sloan which is a very different style from her previous work County By 7s.  It’s an adorable story about a little possum who accidentally falls down a chimney and with the help of her brothers is able to escape.  It’s an…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/14/15

    I’m two weeks behind in my reading, but since I didn’t get to much this week this should work.  Over the past two weeks, I finished Shadowshaper, which I absolutely loved.  I also got my hands on a copy of Sunny Side Up and was blown away by the Holm’s take…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: Book Scavenger

    Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman is my favorite type of story – focused around books and a treasure hunt!  Emily moves to San Francisco with her family and meets James, a next door neighbor who loves puzzles as much as she does.  She’s excited to be in the hometown of…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/31/15

    I got through a good number of books this week!  I really enjoyed Currents  by Jane Petrlik Smolik, a story interwoven between three young girls in the mid 1800s.  I have always loved historical fiction and this book was really interesting!   The next book I read was called  The Education of Ivy Blake…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/24/15

    I don’t know what happened this week, but I got very little reading accomplished.  I was expecting to read a lot on Monday (I had the day off) but instead ended up at a pop-up concert with Stevie Wonder in Philadelphia.  It was a lot of fun, very hot, and…

  • Lifestyle

    Reader's Advisory

    I love Reader’s Advisory, I read a ton of books and get so excited to share them with the kids in my library.  I love reading something and know exactly who I’ll recommend it to, other times I get the chance to talk to someone and pull out a book that…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Of Your Auto-buy Authors

    As a librarian, I have very strict rules about books that I purchase for my own library.  If I bought every book I wanted, my house would soon be overrun with books!  So, I always have to read a book before deeming it worthy of being added to my personal…