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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In a Place I’d Love to Visit

    Top Ten Tuesday

    This was such a hard list to pull together because I love to travel! And I’d love to travel just about everywhere! Today, I’m highlighting some YA books set around the world. Some of these are a little more on the fantasy side or historical side, but that doesn’t stop…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Middle School Summer Reads

    Top Ten Tuesday

    It’s a freebie week for Top Ten Tuesday, so I decided to keep working with the summer theme and focus on Middle Grade Summer Reads. All of these titles are set during the hot, summer months making them perfect reads right now. Whether you’re going on vacation or staying home…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers that Feel Like Summer

    Top Ten Tuesday

    With vacation right around the corner, I was so excited to pull this list together for Top Ten Tuesday this week! Rather than my usual middle grade, I decided to pull together some perfect summer YA titles that are great to have at the beach, in the mountains, at home,…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring 2021 TBR

    Top Ten Tuesday

    My Spring TBR list is trying to finish up a lot of the galleys I have for reviews. I’m a little bogged down right now in review books, but I’ve got a plan to get them read, reviewed, and published in the next month or so! The best (and worst)…

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    #MGBookathon Starts January 1

    If you love middle grade books as much as I do, you have to take a look at the #MGBookathon hosted by MG Book Village. It takes only three easy steps to become a part of a “year-long celebration of Middle Grade books and reading.” Step 1: Post a tweet…

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    Setting Reading Goals

    2017 was a year of firsts for me – the first full year as a director, the first year I haven’t done programming (almost) every week of the year and the first year I have read fewer books than I have in the past five years that I’ve been tracking…