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Book Review: The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon is the story Subhi, a refugee born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of their homeland. Subhi’s world is only what he knows inside the fence of the detention center, but his imagination allows him to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I've Read in 2017 So Far
I specifically chose books that have either been published this year or will be published at some point this year. Some are fun reads, others are eye-openers and many are books that have stuck with me far longer than most. Pick up a title and enjoy! Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/26/17
I’m so proud of myself – I was able to finish all three books on my list for this week and just started a fourth one! I was able to finish Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn and read Greetings from Witness Protection by Jake Burt and Falcon Wild by Terry…
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Must Listen: Book Lover's Podcasts
I love the Get Booked podcast – it’s a book recommendation podcast where people submit questions for reading suggestions for themselves, as gifts, for their book club, etc. and receive suggestions from the hosts and Book Riot contributors. 9 times out of 10, I know very well that I’ll never…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/19/17
Although I didn’t get to as much reading as I had done last week, this week I finished two books and started a third which is pretty good considering I had three after work meetings this week! I read Once and For All by Sarah Dessen which as usual was great. It…
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Book Review: Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race
I was so excited to get an ARC of Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein at BEA a couple weeks ago and bonus – I got it signed! This has become one of my favorite middle grade series for its adventure and library focused scavenger hunts. This most recent…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Great Middle Grade Dads (or at least they try really hard)
After my Mother’s Day post, I didn’t feel it was right to neglect the dads – so here’s a post just for them. On a related side note – I had a really difficult time finding high-quality dads in middle grade fiction. More often than not, 2-parent households don’t have…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 6/12/17
Even with a directors’ institute and a lot of work – I got through five books and loved them all! I read: The Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein The Perfect Score by Rob Buyea Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth A. Odhiambo To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han…
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Celebrating LBGT Pride Month
June is LGBT Pride Month and I definitely want to offer you some great titles to read, so you can check out my post from last year with a great graphic and titles for all readers! I’m really enjoying the fact that it’s becoming easier to find books with LBGT…
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Book Review: The Exact Location of Home
Kate Messner is a prolific writer of children’s books – picture books, early chapter books and middle grade novels and she fits into each of these areas with ease. Today, I want to focus on her newest middle grade novel, The Exact Location of Home a companion story to The Brilliant Fall…
