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2026 Summer Reading 9th – 12th Grade Guide
Summer is the best time of year to read for fun, you don’t have the pressure of school and even with sports or a summer job, I bet there’s a little more flexibility in your schedule to read for fun! For some teens, reading for fun is a foreign concept,…
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2026 Summer Reading 6th – 8th Grade Guide
While this is a newer project for me, I’ve been having a really great time creating these reading guides for this summer! Its fun sifting through different genres, checking out award winning titles from a variety of places and seeing what kids, teachers, and librarians are saying about these books.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Interconnected Romance Series
This week’s theme was “Favorite Secondary/Minor Characters” and while I love the idea of it, I am the absolute worst at remembering details of all the books I read! I love to read and enjoy almost everything I pick up, I’m just not great at the details. So, instead I…
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Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers
I decided to create a list on a different take from the typical “May Flowers” idea of bright, bold, pretty colors with sunshine-y spring and early summer feels. Instead, as I was creating this list, I found that there are a lot of young adult books that feature these moody,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: YA Books for America’s 250th Anniversary
The celebration of America’s Birthday/Anniversary/Semiquincentennial is coming soon and I wanted to take some time to explore the title that are available for kids and teens. Let me tell you, this was trickier than I ever expected! While historical fiction for teens exists, there isn’t a ton of it focused…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Titles That Describe Me & My Life
This theme was a little harder for me to find titles for this week! And I think you’ll see in my results that they range from the silly (Cookie Time) to the searching Finding Me and the absolute perfect – The Loud Librarian. While this was a little trickier to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Places on My Bucket List
This list was really hard to put together and not for the typical reason. Usually, I’m trying to find enough books to fit into a specific theme, for this list, I had too many options! I want to visit and travel absolutely everywhere! So finding books for a list from…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Green YA Book Covers
I love these types of topics for Top Ten Tuesday themes. It brings together books that you might not normally see on the same book list. It doesn’t matter what the genre is, rather our focus is solely on selecting book covers that are a specific color, in this case…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2026 YA Fantasy Titles
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is a genre freebie and while I’ve done a number of middle grade genre book lists, I don’t spend a lot of time on young adult titles. But, I had to share some of these great YA fantasy titles that are being published this year!…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers Featuring Neat Typography
I love book covers! I think it takes a lot of skill to create a book cover that resonates with readers before they even know what the book is about. And part of that design includes typography or font choice. I love when I can look back at the cover…
