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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Winter 2022-2023 To-Read List
These lists always make me feel like a failure! Inevitably, I find these great titles that I can’t wait to read and then I end up not reading most of them Whether I can’t get access to them easily or I forget about them. I’ll see these lists later in…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Read Aloud Christmas Chapter Books
It’s a Freebie day for Top Ten Tuesday and normally that would make me panic to find the “just right” topic for the week. But, this week, I was so excited! I pulled together some of my favorite chapter books and middle grade novels based around Christmas. Normally, I’m very…
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15 Middle Grade Novels about Robots & Coding
STEM and coding have been buzzwords for so long now, I don’t think they can be considered buzzwords anymore. Kids are learning how to code in early elementary school as the world moves further into a digital space. If anything, COVID taught us that a lot more can happen online…
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10 Middle Grade Anthologies
I’m really excited to share this book list with you today! I think anthologies are a great way to introduce readers to A LOT of writers in a very non-threatening way. But, first let me back up a bit and explain what I mean. An anthology is a collection of…
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20 Middle Grade Books on the Environment & Climate Change
Climate change is a topic that personally stresses me out and makes me very anxious. But, that doesn’t mean that I can choose to ignore what is happening to our planet. In today’s book list, I’m sharing books that focus on the environment and climate change for middle grade readers.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Typographic Book Covers
This was a hard theme for me this week! I think that so many children’s books really depend on brightly colored, engaging illustrated covers to draw kids to read them, that the typography isn’t always the first thing you notice. I always say this, but it’s true, I love that…
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12 Middle Grade Baking Books
I know I’m not the only fan of The Great British Baking Show, and with a new season dropping on Netflix, I was inspired to create this middle grade book list that features all kinds of baking! Although, there are an awful lot of cupcake-themed books. It’s also getting cooler…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2022 To-Read List
There are so many great books that I want to read! I need more time in my day to read all the books on my TBR. For this week’s list, I did things a little differently and broke it up into two groups. The first group of books have all…
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Family Book Club: Spooky Titles
For my second-ever Family Book Club (check out my first one), I’m sharing some spooky titles for the fall season. Now, I’ll be the first to admit, that I am the biggest scaredy-cat out there! I don’t like haunted houses, I don’t like scary movies, and even scary middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Completed Series I Wish Had More Books
I am the absolute worst at reading complete series! I’ll read the first in a series and love it, but by the time the next book comes out, I’ve forgotten most of the important details. This means that I either have to re-read the first book, before reading the second…
