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    Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2018 The best books I read in 2018 is not an easy theme for me to create! This was such a great year for kid lit! I chose twelve titles to highlight (although I could have probably picked another twelve at least!)…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Hope I Find Under My Christmas Tree This Morning

    Dear Girl by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller Forever or a Day by Sarah Jacoby The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora Anne of Green Gables: a graphic novel by Mariah Marsden Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart Top…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR

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    I love getting a jump start on my TBR (to be read) list for the next season! If you take a look at MG Book Village and Mr. Schu’s website, you’ll find a book release calendar which are my go-to places to find out what’s coming out soon! The Unsung…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Movie Adaptations

    This week was a freebie week for Top Ten Tuesday and since I’ve actually been posting regularly each week, I din’t have any topics to go back to and cover. So I decide to focus on (mostly) YA books that have movie adaptations out currently or that are coming out…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Wintry Picture Books

    I love snow, especially when I’m safe at home and don’t have to drive anywhere in it! I chose to highlight ten picture book titles that showcase snow and what humans and animals do when it snows. With diverse illustrations, poetry, nonfiction, stories, and more. You won’t want to miss…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Family Relationships

    This week’s theme was to focus on platonic relationships and I decided to take a close look at family relationships after just spending a long weekend with a lot of my own family. The families in these books are either blood-related or adopted, but just as important are chosen families –…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Thankful For

    These are ten titles that I’m thankful were published this year. I wanted to highlight diverse titles that were published – highlighting different races, religions, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, socioeconomic statuses and more. Diverse titles are still not as easy to find as I’d like, especially when you only have a handful…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Items I’d Like to Own

    This was a great exercise in curating a list for Christmas and my birthday. I found some really great things that are adorable and would fit perfectly into my home! I love small little nods to my literary passion – necklaces that you have to take a closer look at.…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Books I Want To Read

    I’m constantly wishing I had more time in each day to get to all the books I want to read. But sadly, I haven’t quite figured out how to do that yet! I’ve got a host of backlist titles I’d love to read, but then they keep publishing new titles!…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Spooky Middle Grade Titles

    This week’s theme is spooky, scary books, a genre, I admit, is not one that I read that often. I’m not a huge fan of spooky books, tv shows, and movies, so it was honestly difficult to come up with ten titles that I’ve read recently! I focused on middle grade…