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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 4/20/15
I’ve decided that if I had another eight hours in a day I’d be able to get a lot more done – four extra hours of work/play and four extra hours to sleep would be perfect! Last week I didn’t get as much reading done as I wanted to, hence…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/13/15
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to all the reading I wanted to last week. So, I definitely want to read Mark of the Thief this week (it’s the only one I didn’t get to this week), other than that, I’m going to read The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. Somewhere…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/6/15
As promised from last week, I was able to finish both All the Answers by Kate Messner and Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. I’ll talk about both of these in individual posts – they were both that good! I also finished two adult books – The Goldfinch…
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Book Review: "Greenglass House"
Let me start off by saying I kept putting this book off… for months. I had no idea what it was about, but for whatever reason, I wouldn’t crack the spine. And I’m so sorry I didn’t read it for so long! It’s a great mystery with unexpected surprises, quirky…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 3/30/2015
I’m actually in the middle of an adult book right now, crazy right? But, my coworker told me I just had to read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. I have about a third of the book left and I’m really enjoying it so far. I love mysterious,…
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SLJ's Battle of the Books
Each year School Library Journal created a Battle of the Books focusing on 2014 children’s and young adult literature. The 2015 judges have been announced and each battle is judged by a different person. What is really fun (and sometimes frusturating) about Battle of the Kids’ Books is that the…
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Book Review: Seven Wild Sisters
Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale by Charles De Lint is actually a companion novel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (which I never realized until after I read this one) and Seven Wild Sisters can easily stand on its own. Reminiscent of a classic fairy tale story, Sarah…
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3rd & 4th Grade Book Club
We don’t have any programs this week which allows me to focus on my program planning for the next month or so. One of my programs, a third and fourth grade book discussion group will meet in the middle of February. I’ll admit, I find it difficult to find books…
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NYPL's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2014
I’m currently working my way through the New York Public Library’s Children’s Books 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2014. I’ve read a number of the books already, but I figured it would be a great start to the new year to work towards these 100 books. I’m almost finished…
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Life-Size Clue (it’s easier than you think!)
Yesterday morning, we offered Life-Size Candyland for our younger patrons, definitely check out all the fun we had! And in the afternoon, we offered Life-Size Clue for our middle schoolers. The set-up isn’t too difficult, it just requires more than a little math. And some willingness to crawl around on the…
