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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’d Give a Theme Song
Echo by Pam Munoz RyanThis books just begs for a theme song with the harmonica tying three stories together spread across multiple decades. This book needs a theme song. Crossover by Kwame AlexanderCrossover already has got such a great beat with the novel in verse, it’s another book that just has…
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Skype Author Visit
It’s been an eventful week already! We have a pretty large grant due on Friday, we had our first middle school program of the school year on Monday night, I spent yesterday and this morning at Penn State for a committee meeting, (quickly) drove back to the library for a…
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Book Review: Book Scavenger
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman is my favorite type of story – focused around books and a treasure hunt! Emily moves to San Francisco with her family and meets James, a next door neighbor who loves puzzles as much as she does. She’s excited to be in the hometown of…
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Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Escape
This week we offered a scavenger hunt as one piece to our three-part series culminating in a Skype visit with Chris Grabenstein. The best part? We used Mr. Lemoncello’s Great Library Escape on Chris’s website and had to do very little prep for an awesome night of fun! We ended up…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Of Your Auto-buy Authors
As a librarian, I have very strict rules about books that I purchase for my own library. If I bought every book I wanted, my house would soon be overrun with books! So, I always have to read a book before deeming it worthy of being added to my personal…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
This week I was able to get back on track with three books I read! The first book I read was called The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy. A great story for those kids looking for mythology books – a specific focus on Norse mythology as…
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48 Hour Book Challenge Review #5
140 Character Synopsis/Review: Nothing is more inconvenient than trying to hide the murder of the headmistress at a boarding school as seven young ladies soon find out. Title: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Author: Julie Berry Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publication Date: 2014 Page Number: 351 pgs.
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It's Monday (*Tuesday), What Are You Reading? 5/26/2015
As I expected, I got very little reading done this weekend, but I got to spend a lot of time with family which was so nice, since my family lives about 5 hours away from me. I was able to finish Dangerous by Shannon Hale and ended up being a little…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/18/2015
As the weekend nears, I always think I’ll have a lot of time to just sit and relax and catch up on my reading, but that’s never the case! I ended up this weekend, hanging out with friends, planting vegetables in the garden and volunteering some time at a nature…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 5/11/2015
Last week was an insanely busy week and I got very little reading done. On top of that, I grabbed The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos as an audio CD to listen to on my way to a meeting and about an hour in, I realized that although…