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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/26/2020

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    What I Read I’m so excited that I got a bunch of reading done this week! I finished up Quintessence by Jess Redman, which I loved! Plus, I read Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Absolute Hero by Valerie Tripp which is a fun STEM early middle grade novel. I…

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    Spring 2021 Sneak Preview – Little, Brown & Co.

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    There’s nothing more exciting than getting a BIG box of books delivered to your doorstep from a publisher. Last week, I received a box from Hachette, specifically the Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The box is filled with spring 2021 titles and I get a chance to read and…

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    Four on Friday: Public Speaking & Debate

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    With all eyes in the U.S. on the 2020 presidential election, I felt that I should probably offer up some different titles than the typical “election” books that are available. (Although, I do have a list of those titles too!) Today’s Four on Friday: Public Speaking & Debate focuses more…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/19/2020

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    What I Read It was a bit of a week – a few unexpected things popped up and I worked on our first Saturday open to the public which cut into my weekend reading time a bit! Unfortunately, I was so exhausted most nights, I didn’t even crack open a…

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    #MGBooktober 2020

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    #MGBooktober is the brainchild of the MG Book Village team and author Annaliese Avery and is now in its fourth year! There’s a new prompt every day for #MGBooktober 2020. Some are really easy and others get me thinking. Prompts like “Book that challenged your thinking” or “Book that got…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Super Long Book Titles

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    What I love is that some books just have crazy, long titles like all of the Captain Underpants books. And others like No More Naps! looks like a short title, until you read the complete title all together – No More Naps!: A Story for When You’re Wide-Awake and Definitely…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/12/2020

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    What I Read This week I read three books, the first – Dear Universe by Florence Gonsalves is a YA contemporary fiction when all that matters is senior prom and graduation until it isn’t and how one girl manages her home life with finishing school. The second book I read…

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    9 Middle Grade Books for World Mental Health Day

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    It’s World Mental Health Day. Sadly, so many people struggle with mental health because there is not a lot of information widely available for people to turn toward. Mental health was (and still is) kept quiet about as if it’s a secret. Don’t get me wrong, the entire world doesn’t…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers with Fall Colors

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    I think it’s so fun to focus on the color of covers because you get to pull together books that typically wouldn’t be on the same list! You can check out other color lists I’ve done in the past – yellow, blue, orange, purple, and turquoise. I’ve already created both…