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    Top Ten Tuesday: More Favorite Books I Read in 2019

    Top Ten Tuesday

    If you haven’t seen my post from yesterday, 19 Favorite Middle Grade Books of 2019, then run over and take a look! Since I don’t want to repeat myself, here are ten more titles that I didn’t have space to include! What were your favorite reads of 2019? Top Ten…

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    19 Favorite Middle Grade Books of 2019

    Rather than share a best of list, these are my 19 Favorite Middle Grade Books of 2019. And don’t forget, to take a look at my picture book list too! I’ll caveat that by saying, these are just a few of the amazing books that have been published this year.…

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    Four on Friday: Foster Care

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    This summer and into the fall I read a number of middle grade novels centered around foster care. According to AdoptUSKids.org, there are over 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. This means that most likely whether you know it or not, there are foster kids in your…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 10

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    It’s Day 10 of the giveaway which means you only have a few more hours to enter Day 1’s raffle! Remember, each giveaway will be available for ten days, so scroll down to find the links for all the previous days’ giveaways and enter now! Today’s giveaway includes two middle…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 9

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    Back to work on a Monday with a bunch of projects to try and finish up before the year’s end. I always want to believe that work will slow down as we wind down for the year – we’re not buying too much more, there aren’t as many people coming…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 8

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    Today’s plans include Christmas cooking baking with some of my girl friends. This is our second year doing something like this and it’s just a lot of fun getting together and spending time together. We’ll most likely be decorating sugar cookies and then we each bring a recipe to bake…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 7

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    It’s Day 7 and Saturday which I’m super excited about! I have a little bit of holiday shopping at a local independent bookstore to do and I’m excited to stop by and explore the shelves for a little while! All the kids in my life get books for their birthdays…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 6

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    We’re half-way through my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! I honestly can’t believe it, December is flying by. I’d say I have half my shopping done, half my decorating done, and halfway through a lot of projects at work. Hopefully, by Day 12, I’ll be able to say I’ve got…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 5

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    I spent my evening starting to decorate for Christmas. There’s something so exciting about opening the boxes after a year of having them stored in the attic. I did most of the unpacking last night, but still need to put up our tree and decorate it! Without further ado, here…

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    12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 4

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    I wish I had more room on my bookshelves to keep all of these amazing books! But, my pain is your gain as today’s titles were all amazing reads. These are perfect for middle grade readers a little bit of fantasy and realistic fiction. Plus, as a bonus, Silver Meadows…