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2020 Debut Middle Grade Authors
Yesterday’s post about 2020 debut picture book authors and illustrators was so fun and very popular, so I thought it might be a good idea to share 2020 debut middle grade authors as well! As I mentioned yesterday, I love having a platform for sharing books and creators with the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2020
This post got me all overwhelmed! I have so many books still to read from 2019 and there are of, of course, so many more being published this year. These are just a few of the titles being released in the first half of 2020 that I can’t wait to…
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Oh My!
Kids in my library love books about the unexplained – aliens, unicorns, and monsters of all shapes and sizes. This morning as I took my pup out for her morning walk, the neighborhood was blanketed, not in the snow you would expect for January, but in a dense layer of…
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Four on Friday: King Tut & Ancient Egypt
On this day in 1924, King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus was discovered. Two full years after Howard Carter had discovered his tomb virtually untouched for thousands of years. Although I have opinions on taking artifacts from their country of origin, I do love being able to learn about history from pieces that…
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10 MG Sci-Fi Books with Female Protagonists
It’s National Science Fiction Day! Although an unofficial holiday, many sci-fi fans celebrate National Science Fiction Day on Isaac Asimov’s birthday, January 2nd. āI write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.ā Nothing could be truer, Isaac Asimov was a well-known science fiction…
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Top Ten Tuesday: More Favorite Books I Read in 2019
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
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
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
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…
